EDITOR-The headline on the BMJ's front cover "Cardiovascular mortality after radiotherapy for breast cancer" would lead the reader to suppose that the study described the relation between adjuvant ...irradiation for breast cancer and cardiac mortality. 1 The actual report of a cohort of nearly 90 000 women reported from the Swedish cancer registry with data on laterality of breast cancer and cardiac mortality presents only estimates of the use of adjuvant radiotherapy (30%) from regional Swedish registries in the 1970s and 1980s.
People with cancer in the UK should have access to a full spectrum of services. The role of the clinical nurse specialist is an important part of this development. In the specialty of ...urology/oncology, this role is still a relatively new development although the incidence of urological malignancy readily compares with other site-specific cancers.
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