Showing posts with label cancer and oncology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cancer and oncology. Show all posts
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Nurse as Writer, Writer as Nurse Theresa Laurel Brown, BA, MA, PhD, BSN, RN, OCN®

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Nurse as Writer, Writer as Nurse Theresa Laurel Brown, BA, MA, PhD, BSN, RN, OCN ®   The first column I ever wrote for The N...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Oncology (Cancer) Nurses on: The Nurse Friendly

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New! Alicia Sable Hunt, Founder & President of Sable's Foods, @SablesFoods Connecticut :""As a Regist...
Monday, March 21, 2011

A Day in the Life of an Oncologist: “How Do You What You Do?” | GRACE :: Coping with Cancer / Social Work

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On the rare occasion I’m in a social situation with people who aren’t in medicine (yes, I’m sure you know I don’t get out much, so this is ...
Friday, March 4, 2011

The Skin Cancer Foundation - Self Examination

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WHY SELF-EXAMS ARE SO IMPORTANT Skin cancer is the most common of all cancers, afflicting more than two million Americans each year, a nu...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Oncology (Cancer) Nurses on: The Nurse Friendly

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New! Annette Tersigni RN, Yoga Nursing® :"I am the founder of Yoga Nurse Medical Yoga and Stress Management and am t...
Friday, February 4, 2011

Jeffrey L. Sturchio: The Global Burden of Cancer

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Most of us in developed countries have dwelled in the shadow of cancer. We've anxiously awaited a test result, become intimate with che...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Nurse and Doctor, Neighbor and Friend By THERESA BROWN, R.N. - NYTimes.com

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“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” begins Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall,” about two neighbors who meet to repair the gaps a...
Saturday, January 1, 2011

Discussing cancer treatment with the terminal patient, KevinMD.com

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“Are you giving up on me?” My patient looks at me severely. “There must be other treatment options! Aren’t there some experimental drug...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Cancer patients die too often in hospitals, study says - The Boston Globe

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Researchers at the Dartmouth Atlas Project in Lebanon, N.H., analyzed the records of 235,821 Medicare patients ages 65 and older who died b...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Facing Cancer, Sharing Laughter, Theresa Brown, RN

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It’s the rare patient who copes with the stress of cancer by being a comedian, but a few people do. I have always found these patients not ...