Nurses are being encouraged to learn more about the new national lung cancer screening program (NLCSP), the first national screening program to be launched in two decades. Beginning in July, it marks a significant development in lung cancer detection, with hopes it will save 12,000 lives over the next decade. Early detection of lung malignancy…
This unit of study examines the role of therapeutic apheresis as a current and emerging therapy. It provides students with specialist knowledge of pre-procedural considerations of the role of therapeutic apheresis for individuals with renal, immune, haematological, and neurological disorders before more explicitly exploring the clinical issues within the specialty of apheresis nursing in Australia.
For many Australians, they will either experience or have a loved one experience cancer throughout their lives. A disease of the body cells, cancer can come in many forms in our bodies and has been long linked to death across the world. However, with the ever-present development of medicine, people who develop cancer throughout their…