Anesthesia & Clinical Research
Open Access
ISSN: 2155-6148
+44 1223 790975
ISSN: 2155-6148
+44 1223 790975
Gul Cankaya
Marmara University Pendik Training Hospital, Turkey
Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Anesth Clin Res
Aim: The aim of this presentation is to explain the role of the cancer navigation nurse during radiotherapy for
breast cancer patints since these patients have high anxiety and therapies have severe side effects.
Method: Recent literature and materials of European Oncology Nurse Society education materials are
reviewed.
Discussion: Cancer navigation nurses are patient educators and advocates, care coordinators, system
navigators, and community ambassadors on a mission to improve the cancer experience for each patient.
Patient education is a dynamic part of medicine. Radiation oncology is a complex treatment dicipline. Patient
education is a part of quality of care. Radiotherapy, chemotherapy and surgery are effective treatments for
malignant cancers, and nearly half of all cancer patients undergo radiotherapy. Anxiety is one of the most
common psychological response during cancer therapy for radiotherapy. The use of educational media,
internet, applications are effective approaches to pretreatment education. There are existing more information
about radiotherapy on the web. Cancer navigation nurse can also perform symptom management during
radiation treatment, with ap¬plications for pre-treatment education.
Conclusion: Radiotherapy, following chemotherapy or breast surgery, is a complicated process and need to
be well managed. The patients with complaints of previous treatments are vulnerable to radiation therapy side
effects. Cancer navigation nurse can help for optimization of multiple therapies by close monitoring these patients.
She is specialist nurse on surgical oncology and breast cancer navigation nurse in her institution and responsible for pretreatment education of the breast cancer patients. Marmara University Pendik Trainig Hospital is a reference hospital. She had presenated many oral talks and attended EONS Masterclass in Berlin.