Assessing patients’ views of a dedicated colorectal cancer clinic

Richard Dalton, Nicky Forsyth, Christopher Vickery, Ian Eyre-Brook

The benefits of hospital-based counselling for patients and staff

Roger Crellin, Sharon Quinn

Strategies to ensure effective and empathetic delivery of bad news

Carole Palmer, Colin Thain

Developing a service to support men with testicular cancer

Sue Brand

Family caregivers’ assessment of the patient’s symptoms

Dion Smyth

Assessing the spiritual needs of patients with neurological cancers

Reasons men decline to take up screening for prostate cancer

Noticeboard

Education

Diary

Point of view

Soul matters

Jill Hardman-Smith

Coping successfully with prostate cancer

Nicola James

Improving management of ovarian cancer

Lynne Wallis

Call to improve UK records on secondary breast cancer

Chance for public to honour favourite health professionals

Pilot finds nurse-led aftercare reduces patient distress but does not save money

Erin Dean

Experts panel advises review of melanoma staff workloads

Initiative to enhance chemotherapy care

Report endorses cost effectiveness of specialist clinicians

Nurses lead from the front

Carole Farrell