Advanced oncology study day

This course aims to provide you with the opportunity to explore and understand more advanced nursing implications and care related to working with children or young people with a cancer diagnosis. Topics sometimes covered in this day:

• genetics in childhood cancer

• insight in to the complex issues surrounding childhood cancer

• clinical oncology emergencies and how they are treated and managed

• identify and understand new therapies and trials being introduced.

On completion of the course, you should have built on your current knowledge of the care involved in treating patients with a childhood cancer.

This course is aimed at nurses that have attended the foundation oncology study day.