Cancerbackup: Health professionals

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Health professionals

Keep up to date with developments in cancer with information on guidelines for treatment and controversial cancer topics plus news, events and resources.  Select an option below, or use the menu on the left-hand side.


News

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  • Latest news: Cancerbackup publications now free to health care professionals
  • What's been hot in the press or hot on our helpline
  • A review of our website of the month

Resources

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Treatment guidelines
Information on treatment guidelines within the UK
Discussion topics
Reports written specially for health professionals
Reaching more communities
Resources for reaching out to more communities including black & minority ethnic communities

Working in cancer care

Go to Working in cancer care

Working at Cancerbackup
Opportunities for cancer nurses to experience a new way of supporting cancer patients.
CIS nurse competencies
Skills and experience needed for information nursing in the field of cancer. RCN accredited.
CancerJobs.net
The definitive recruitment website for all cancer care, oncology and haematology professionals.


Get support

Look for other people in the same situation on our What Now? community - read their blogs or talk to them in our chat rooms.

Find out about other ways to get support on the main Macmillan website.