Cancer treatment in Africa: the importance of the role of nursing

Nurses in all aspects of oncology have a key role to play in the delivery of effective cancer care. Unfortunately, oncology nursing is not yet an established nursing subspecialty in most of Africa; six out of 22 African countries reported as having no trained oncology nurses at all. The need for mor...

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Autores principales: Mitema, Anastasia, Maree, Lize, Young, Annie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cancer Intelligence 2019
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6722106/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31552117
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2019.944
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spelling pubmed-67221062019-09-24 Cancer treatment in Africa: the importance of the role of nursing Mitema, Anastasia Maree, Lize Young, Annie Ecancermedicalscience Short Communication Nurses in all aspects of oncology have a key role to play in the delivery of effective cancer care. Unfortunately, oncology nursing is not yet an established nursing subspecialty in most of Africa; six out of 22 African countries reported as having no trained oncology nurses at all. The need for more personnel and quality training programmes are an absolute necessity. Cancer Intelligence 2019-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6722106/ /pubmed/31552117 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2019.944 Text en © the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6722106/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2019.944
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