Clinical
Our clinical nursing articles aim to inform and educate nurse practitioners and students. This is achieved through the publication of peer-reviewed, evidence-based, relevant and topical articles.
Chemotherapy-induced alopecia: a phenomenological study
Breast cancer accounts for 16 per cent of all cancers in females. The treatment...
Patient diaries: can they offer psychological help to cancer patients?
Patient diaries have been successfully used in intensive care units (ICUs) to...
Development of a patient-held diary for oral chemotherapy
A generic oral chemotherapy diary has been developed in the South West London...
A model of care for optimising recovery after breast cancer surgery
This article discusses the development of a multidisciplinary specialist advisory...
Managing chemotherapy capacity by sharing best practice
Experts have warned that urgent action is needed to ensure that the NHS is prepared...
Smoking cessation advice for head and neck cancer patients: is it worth it?
This article describes the incidence of head and neck cancer in England and the...
Docetaxel extravasation resulting in vesicant type skin reaction: case report
Extravasations – pain at the intravenous site and local blistering – are caused by...
An evaluation of an approach to e-learning in a cancer care setting
The delivery of high quality care to patients with cancer and their family and...
Managing the side effects of sunitinib: a guide to empowering the patient
In June 2007, 12 research nurses involved in the clinical trials of sunitinib in...
Mapping the English cancer clinical nurse specialist workforce
The role and function of the cancer clinical nurse specialist (CNS) has been the...
Stenting improves quality of life in the management of oesophageal cancer patients
Oesophageal cancer has a poor prognosis with an overall survival rate of...
The success of a nurse-led, one-stop suspected prostate cancer clinic
Until recently, the prostate biopsy, and accompanying trans-rectal ultrasound, has...
Hickman line surveillance in oncology
This article describes the development of a surveillance tool to monitor...
Management of patient participation in a hepatocellular carcinoma clinical trial
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the major form of liver cancer. Although it was...
Living with secondary breast cancer
Women living with secondary breast cancer (SBC) have a strong need for information...
Evaluating patients’ experiences of home and hospital chemotherapy
This article examines the experiences of breast cancer patients who received...
Assessing the value of a cancer clinical nurse specialist
NHS organisations are going through challenging financial times, in line with...
Quality of life in stem cell transplant patients — a literature review
High-dose chemotherapy with haematopoietic stem cell transplantation is associated...