Principle of Nursing in Oncology

Françoise Charnay-Sonnek has studied foreign languages, nursing, pedagogy and management. She graduated as a Nurse in 1992 from the School of Nursing at University Hospital in Heidelberg, Germany. She worked as a nurse in oncology and hematology in Germany and moved to France in 1998. She had been nurse manager in the Strasbourg university hospital and later in the Strasbourg comprehensive cancer center.  Françoise was Education Head for the continuous training in oncology at the FNCLCC-EFEC School of Oncology in Paris, and in January 2018 she moved to a new job within UNICANCER as Education coordinator. She was engaged in different professional nursing associations, She was a board member of AFIC (French Association of Oncology Nurses) before joining the EONS executive board (from 2007 to 2013). In addition, she became an active member of the EAU (European Association of Urology) guidelines panel team on “pain management and palliative care” from 2012 to 2014. She represented EONS at ESNO (European Specialist Nurses Organization) board before getting in the president 2014. Her mandate ended December 2017 after 5 years leadership.Anne E. Murphy is currently working as a nurse and genetic counselor in Geneva University Hospital. She graduated as a nurse in 1981 and has been working in Geneva and abroad with “Doctors without borders”. Since 1991, she is active in the field of oncology and has been involved in the Swiss Oncology Nursing Association. She was a member of the EONS education group from 1993 to 1997 and accreditation committee from 1997 to 2005. She represented Europe at ISNCC (International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care) from 2000 to 2004. After a Bachelor’s degree in Education and a Master in genetic counselling, she has been active in the creation of the Oncogenetics Unit of Geneva University Hospital. Since 2014, she is involved in the first Swiss Helpline for rare diseases. She is currently member of the AFCG (French Association of Genetic Counselors) and President of the Swiss Association of Genetic Counselors.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1. Basis of carcinogenesis.- Chapter 2. Epidemiology and prevention.- Chapter 3: Basic and new treatments.- Chapter 4: Targeted therapies.- Chapter 5 : Immunotherapies.- Chapter 6 : Robotic surgery.- Chapter 7 : Forming and maintaining interpersonal relationships, communication skills.- Chapter 8: Nursing diagnosis specific to oncology.- Chapter 9: Nursing counseling after announcement of the diagnosis, coordination of the patient pathway.- Chapter 10: Therapeutic education.- Chapter 11: Specificity of breast cancer.- Chapter 12: Gynaecology cancers.- Chapter 13: Prostate cancer.- Chapter 14: Bladder and renal cancers.- Chapter 15: Melanoma cancer.- Chapter 16: Lung cancer.- Chapter 17: GI cancer.- Chapter 18: Pancreas cancer.- Chapter 19: Haematology.- Chapter 20: How to progress in your specialty.- Chapter 21: North American models.- Chapter 22: EuropeanModel.- Chapter 23:  Added Value of the associative networking in oncology.- Chapter 24: Children.- Chapter 25 : Teenager and Young Adults.- Chapter 26 : Elderlies.- Chapter 27: Rare diseases.- Chapter 28: Supportive care.- Chapter 29: Genetic counselling.- Chapter 30: Oncology nursing in the primary care.- Chapter 31 : Ehealth.- Chapter 32: Patient as actor of his treatment, shared decision making.