Editorial

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Breast Cancer Awareness Month offers a unique opportunity to spread the word about breast cancer detection, types and treatment in creative and impactful ways

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and organisers Breast Cancer Now are spreading th

06 Oct 2025
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A specific cancer goal in the 10 Year Health Plan is to increase uptake of human papillomavirus vaccinations among young people in a bid to eliminate cervical cancer by 2040

The 10 Year Health Plan for England includes specific cancer goals, including an incr

26 Aug 2025
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Research can help create better outcomes for patients and working as a cancer research nurse can be a highly rewarding career

A new e-learning course aims to address misconceptions about what the role of a cancer res

26 Jun 2025
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Nurses need to familiarise themselves with common late effects associated with many cancer therapies, such as endothelial damage and metabolic changes

Cancer nurses and nursing specialists continually have to develop their knowledge around e

30 Apr 2025
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14 March will mark the fourth year of National Cancer clinical nurse specialist day, which shines a light on their work in delivering excellence in cancer care

Macmillan Cancer Support chief nursing officer Claire Taylor is keen to mark the fourth&nb

27 Feb 2025
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New consultant editor of Cancer Nursing Practice: Guy’s and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust chemotherapy nurse consultant Catherine Oakley

Guy’s and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust chemotherapy nurse consultant Catherine Oakley w

31 Dec 2024
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Cancer Nursing Practice provides critical content that is appropriate, comprehensive and easy to read, but is always open to suggestions from readers. Illustration shows someone stepping away, which consultant editor Carole Farrell is doing after 15 years

After nearly 15 years as consultant editor for Cancer Nursing Practice, Carole Farrell is

04 Nov 2024
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A group consultation for people receiving systemic anticancer therapy

Group consultations can be a way of nurses helping people living with cancer better unders

06 Aug 2024
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An illustration depicting how personalised medicine and genomics can improve a person’s cancer care

Advances in personalised medicine in the NHS continue to have significant implications for

25 Jun 2024
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Monitoring a patient’s vital signs on a touchscreen visual display

Nurses should be able to spot the signs of sepsis in people with neutropenia who are recei

09 Apr 2024
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Global cancer icon showing ribbons around a map of the world

Inclusive cancer nursing and services are a worldwide goal and every nurse can make a diff

02 Jan 2024
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A nurse sits at the bedside of an older female oncology patient wearing a head scarf

Government action is needed to tackle low healthcare staff morale and a ten-year high quit

15 Aug 2023

Rare types of cancer are on the rise and nurses should keep up to date and enhance skills a

28 Jun 2023

Macmillan's Claire Taylor on why holistic and personalised cancer care are vital so people

01 Nov 2022

Cancer screening and diagnosis rates have fallen during the pandemic, so focusing on hard-t

08 Jun 2022

As the COVID-19 pandemic recedes, we must strive to meet the priorities of people who requi

10 Feb 2022

Perhaps among the few positive effects of the pandemic is the enhanced status of nurses

23 Aug 2020

Caring, courageous and innovative work goes on amid the fear and grief

14 Apr 2020

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