The following message was written by Fernanda Conceição from the Communications Working Group for European Cancer Nursing Day 2026.
You probably started to be a cancer nurse by accident, random luck or because you really wanted it.
Either way, I bet you love every bit of being a cancer nurse. Just like I do.
The ECND – European Cancer Nursing Day – celebrated this May, 18th - is a day of remembrance and acknowledgement of all cancer nurses!
The one’s that decided to work supporting life beyond cancer.
They are present every step of the way – engaging towards prevention, guiding through treatment and promoting adaptation throughout patients life’s.
So this ECND let’s be LOUD! Cancer nurses are “Supporting Life Beyond Cancer”!
And if you are a patient or a survivor, please be sure that we know… the most powerful care is done never leaving your side.
Join us and share ECND!
Sometimes the most powerful treatment is knowing someone will not leave your side.
On European Cancer Nursing Day, we honor oncology nurses — for their science, their strength, and their extraordinary humanity.