Cancer Nursing Careers | Cancer as a chronic illness - supportive and palliative care

Cancer as a Chronic Illness - Supportive and Palliative Care
The session focuses on the reality of living with a cancer diagnosis.

Treatment Goals
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This session is the fourth of eight sessions that aim to support your learning about cancer. 

Each session is designed for registrants providing general cancer care and aligns with the nursing outcomes included in the RCN Career and Education Framework for Cancer Nursing.

Cancer is not a single disease. As such, the consequences of treatment and the outcomes PABC face can be very different. 

At diagnosis, the goals of treatment will reflect the stage and type of cancer and the wishes of the person.

These goals may be a curative, remission or palliative outcome. Irrespective of the goal, PABC can experience the effects of treatment long after treatment finishes.  These can impact their quality of life, rehabilitation and recovery in the short and long term.