Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cancer : a journey of discovery / Tonks N. Fawcett -- Integrating cancer genetics into healthcare / Roseanne Cetnarskyj and Mary Porteous -- "Being with woman" : the care of the childbearing woman with cancer / Rosemary Mander -- Mucositis and the development of a new instrument for the measurement of oral mucositis in children / Deborah Tomlinson and Lillian Sung -- Facing the challenges of primary malignant brain tumours / Shanne McNamara -- Cancer and the surgeon / Ashley Brown -- Cancer pain / Papiya Russell and Anil Tandon -- Cancer-related fatigue / Antonia Dean -- The clinical research nurse in cancer clinical trials / Patricia B Campbell -- Emotional work of caring in cancer nursing / Anne McQueen -- The management of rectal cancer and the consequences of treatment / Gillian Knowles and Rachel Haigh -- Sustaining hope in people with cancer : developments in palliative and end-of-life care / Margaret Colquhoun and Vicky Hill.