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I may have the best medical care but was badly let down emotionally
Lyn Holmes, aged 45, has breast cancer. Despite the best medical care, she describes how she felt let down by a lack of emotional support during her diagnosis and treatment.
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Improving wellbeing with cardiac rehabilitation
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Supporting people living with and beyond cancer
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Raising cancer awareness in minority ethnic groups
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VTE: its diagnosis and management
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Skin cancer: causes and groups at risk
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Main types of skin cancer and treatment options
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Effects of being a patient on student development
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MetaHabilitation: how to survive life after trauma
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Very brief advice on smoking
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Helping survivors to adjust after cancer
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Skin reactions in radiotherapy
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Essential care for patients with stomas
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Productivity gains by specialist nurses
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A service pledge for breast cancer
End of life care
End-of-life care for people with urological cancer
As the majority of patients with urological cancers die in hospital, urology and continence nurses have an important role to play in the end-of-life care team
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Improving services for long-term conditions
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Opioids in palliative care: the NICE guidance
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A reappraisal of herbal medicinal products
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Ethical issues around continuous deep sedation without hydration
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Communication in cross-cultural cancer care
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Opioid prescribing in palliative care
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"Palliative care can sustain and support mental health clients"
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A tool to measure levels of psychological distress
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Personal care at the end of life and after death
News
Estimated 10,000 cancer patients 'given wrong drugs'
An estimated 10,000 cancer patients a year are given the wrong drugs in hospital, according to new research commissioned by Macmillan Cancer Support.
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Call to cut women's exposure to cancer-risk chemical
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Charity challenges public to cut 100 calories a day
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Teen cancer survival varies widely
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Ovarian cancer nurses snowed under by caseloads
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Tamoxifen-class drugs cut breast cancer risk by more than third
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Sun warning amid bid to get tan
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Osbourne to front cancer campaign
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Cancer survival rates vary by geography
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Fears older patients missing out on bladder cancer ops
Opinion
60 seconds with... Bernie Wilson, lead chemotherapy nurse
Bernie Wilson is lead chemotherapy nurse at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in Merseyside, where she has worked for 28 years.
comment
“Many issues and beliefs affect individual sun safety advice”
Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the UK, with more than 100,000 new cases recorded every year.
debate
How do you ensure best practice in colorectal cancer care?
How do you ensure best practice in colorectal cancer care? What do you think?
Practice blog
Every week needs to be dementia aware for nurses
This is Dementia Awareness week which is a good way to call attention to this common conditio
Behind the Headlines
No proof that red hair raises skin cancer risk
‘Redheads are at increased risk of skin cancer even if they don’t spend time in the sun,’ is the headline on the Mail Online website.
