Ask the Nurse Live Q&A – Clinical Trials
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Screening
by Sharlene- 2 replies
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Hello, I lost my dad on November 20th 2015 to PC, he was just 72 years old and died 3weeks after diagnosis. He was the 10th member of my family to die from this awful disease and the doctor at the Macmillan unit urged us to push for some form of genetic testing, she helped to refer us to Southampton genetics and then onto EUROPAC, My brother has been accepted by EUROPAC and started his screening in January this year, he has been told that he has pancreatitis (doesn't smoke or drink) and is naturally very worried about developing PC, he told me to contact EUROPAC to get myself on the register and I duly contacted them over the weekend, they replied telling me that I am eli…
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Welcome
by PCUK Nurse Jeni- 11 replies
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Good morning everyone! Welcome to our Q&A session from 10am -4pm today. My name is Jeni. I moved to the UK from Ireland, in 2000. I have been working on the support service since 2010. Prior to this I worked in a busy chemotherapy unit in the East Midlands, for 9 years, covering most forms of cancers, including haematology. I also did 4 years as a clinical trials nurse, which is where I became familiar with pancreatic cancer. It has been such a learning curve to streamline knowledge to a particular cancer, and I find that most days, we draw on our wider nursing knowledge. I am constantly learning things, and understanding them in a more in-depth way. O…
