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Oxford handbook of children’s and young people’s nursing

01 March 2007

Cancer Nursing Practice

Book Review

Written for both practising and student nurses caring for children and young people (C/YP), this book is an inclusive guide to the care of C/YP in the context of...

Evidence-based Pediatric Oncology

01 October 2007

Cancer Nursing Practice

Book Review

Despite remarkable advances in treating childhood cancer over the past 40 years, for 25 per cent of children and teenagers diagnosed with cancer current treatments...

Is global symptom assessment in childhood cancer possible?

01 October 2004

Cancer Nursing Practice

Clinical

Cancer patients must self report their symptoms. However, self reporting in children and young adults is fraught with difficulties because of their inability to...

Networks, plans and children: size matters

01 December 2002

Cancer Nursing Practice

Opinion

In more ways that one, nursing children and teenagers with cancer is a minor speciality. The rarity of cancer in childhood or adolescence, means oncology nursing for...

When Professionals Weep: emotional and countertransference responses in end-of-life care

01 May 2008

Cancer Nursing Practice

Book Review

Can a professional’s personal feelings and life experiences affect the counselling process? When Professionals Weep explores this issue for health professionals...

International childhood cancer day

01 February 2005

Cancer Nursing Practice

Perspective

Every year, around 166,000 children under 15 years of age are diagnosed with cancer worldwide; 84 per cent of these live in the developing world, and of the 80,000...

Cancer and the adolescent

01 May 1998

Paediatric Nursing

Book Review

In the preface of this book, the authors state that their aim in writing it is ‘to address the wide range of issues related to adolescents with cancer’ and, on the...

Cancer and the adolescent

01 April 1997

Paediatric Nursing

Book Review

In the preface the authors state the text’s aim is ‘to address the wide range of issues related to adolescents with cancer', and on the whole these aims are met.

Draft guidance on children and young people

01 December 2004

Cancer Nursing Practice

News

Guidance on cancer care in children and young people has been a noticeable absentee from recent NHS initiatives focusing on cancer care in England and Wales....

Cancer service guidance

01 December 2004

Paediatric Nursing

Policy

Guidance on cancer care in children and young people has been a noticeable absentee from the recent NHS initiatives focusing on cancer care in England and Wales. The...