Oncology Nursing

Provides an update and overview on the pathophysiology of cancer--how it starts, how it spreads, the role of embryology, the role of oncogenes, the role of the environment (viruses {HPV, HBV, HCV}, bacteria {H. pylori}, hormones, chemicals, radiation, etc.) as well as many other facts and tidbits about the growth and differentiation of cells.

In the time it takes to watch this short report from The National's Checkup panel, seven Canadians will find out they have cancer. Today 210 Canadians will lose their lives fighting it. Billions have been raised and spent on the battle against this deadly disease, but is anything really changing? What can we do as individuals to prevent it, what are we doing to treat it and are we any closer to a cure?

POG – Personalized OncoGenomics – is the subject of the gripping new documentary. With exclusive and rare access, Cracking Cancer follows a group of patients, all with incurable cancer, through the highly experimental clinical trial at the BC Cancer Agency, a trial that holds the promise of personalized cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Immunotherapy boosts the immune system or helps the immune system to find cancer and attack it.

Cancer is one of the most dreaded diagnoses in medicine, and the nurses willing to deal with the consequences of this disease on a daily basis must draw upon special skills and inner resources. This program looks at three nurses whose expertise and dedication in working with cancer patients are remarkable. Nurse Lillie Shockney draws on her own experience with breast cancer as she counsels a young woman who must undergo a double mastectomy. Hospice nurse Stephanie Mehr helps a lung cancer patient to live well to the end. First year nurse Melanie Michel works with two leukemia patients as the recover from bone marrow transplants.