July Blog 2024 - Early Career Cancer Nurses meet in Finland This year, the European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS) had their annual working group meeting in Turku, Finland. This was the first in-person meeting for the Early Career Cancer Nurses (ECCN) Working...
June Blog 2024 - ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING IN ONCOLOGY Irati Rodriguez Matesanz, APRN, FNP-BC Breast Oncology Nurse Practitioner at City of Hope, Atlanta, USA Early Career Nurse co-chair at EONS The International Council of Nurses, defines advanced practi...
April Blog 2024 - Palliative Care in Oncology: Going Beyond Treatment Giannis Polychronis, EONS YCN representative In oncology, a patient’s treatment plan often involves various measures, such as surgery,chemotherapy, and radiation, to eliminate the cancer. Palliative c...
May Blog 2024 - Are you seeking for professional and career growth opportunities? Are you seeking for professional and career growth opportunities? Find out some great resources to accelerate! Dear Young and Early Career Cancer Nurses, welcome to the May ECN blog. This month we sha...
March Blog 2024 - Cancer Of Unknown Primary Cancer Of Unknown Primary Cancer of Unknown Primary is often a difficult diagnosis and results from a protracted pathway to diagnosis. It affects 2% of cancer cases in the UK, with 8,589 cases each ye...
February Blog 2024 - HEAR FROM OUR NEW CO-CHAIRS Dear Young and Early Career Nurses, With a deep sense of respect, gratitude, and responsibility, it gives us great pleasure to initiate our 2-year term as co-Chairs of the newly established EONS Early...
5th EONS PhD Research Workshop 2024, Ghent, Belgium, 3-5th June 2024 The 5th EONS PhD Research Workshop took place from the 3rd to the 5th of June 2024 at the Ghent University Hospital and the University Centre for Nursing and Midwifery, Ghent University. This workshop...
December 2023/January 2024 - How to deliver bad news to your oncology patient Communication is at the heart of the relationship between nurse and patient. The nurse is the professional who can best understand the meanings that the patient attributes to their experiences. Theref...
November Blog 2023 - Speaking at EONS16 @ ESMO 2023 – a positive challenge Speaking at EONS16 @ ESMO 2023 – a positive challenge Helena McCallig, Ireland Seven symposia, 29 invited speakers, 42 accepted abstracts, 58 posters, 6 educational sessions and a writing workshop – E...
October Blog 2023 - Glow gold – Childhood Cancer Many people associate September with blood cancer awareness month - a global event helping to raise awareness of blood cancer. But since 2012 it has also been childhood cancer awareness month–represen...
September Blog 2023 - Cancer Screening In this month's blog, Cancer diagnoses continue to affect millions of lives worldwide each year, but the battle against cancer has seen significant progress, thanks in large part to early detection an...
August Blog 2023 - Vaccination against cancer-causing infection Cancer-causing viruses continue to be a significant driver of cancer development. It is estimated that viral infections are the central cause of more than 1,400,000 cancer cases annually, representing...