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ECND21 NEWSFLASH
Strengthening Sustainable Cancer Prevention in Healthcare |
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WELCOME TO A SPECIAL ECND21 NEWSLETTER – 18 MAY AS IT HAPPENED!
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| | Thank you for making European Cancer Nursing Day a great success! Using the hashtag #ECND21Go4Prevention, thousands of cancer nurses, along with our partners, celebrated the role of cancer nurses in cancer prevention across Europe, sharing key messages and powerful images. EONS would like to thank everyone who took part. None of this could have happened without your enthusiasm, your support and your passion for cancer nursing. |
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| A MESSAGE FROM EONS PRESIDENT
JOHAN DE MUNTER |
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| | “Cancer nurses are experts in health promotion, at the forefront of the interface between patients and the wider community, and we are uniquely placed to have a major impact on health literacy and health behaviour in this crucial area.
“We empower and educate people to reduce their cancer risk by adopting a healthy lifestyle – increasing their physical activity, improving their diet and giving up smoking. We encourage them to access primary screening, seek early detection and advise cancer survivors to take up screening for second malignancies; and, we already lead the drive for vaccination, which can help stop infections that cause some cancers.
“As cancer nurses we have the ability to act as leaders in strengthening cancer control within and outside our practice.”
Johan de Munter, EONS President |
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| THE POWERFUL REACH AND IMPACT OF ECND21 |
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| | EU's Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides
In a recorded address to EONS, Commissioner Kyriakides paid tribute to cancer nurses’ ‘incredible work, dedication and commitment to better outcomes for patients’ and praised them for ‘working tirelessly to continue treatment’ throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. She told EONS cancer nurses that the Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan would ‘support dedicated health professionals like you’. EONS in turn has pledged to collaborate closely to help implement the plan and underlines the central part cancer nurses must be supported to play in reducing Europe’s cancer burden. |
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| | Support for cancer nursing from the European Parliament: Sara Matthieu MEP hailed ECND21 and called for cancer nurses to be supported by the Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan. She said that cancer nurses should be included in the Plan as equal partners with medical oncologists, radiologists, oncology surgeons, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals in cancer. Only then would cancer nurses’ huge potential impact on cancer prevention be realised and faster progress made towards reaching the 80% awareness goal and addressing the 40% of preventable cancer cases in Europe.
Read an article by Sara Matthieu MEP in EU Parliament Magazine – |
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| | Carolina Espina of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Ms Espina stressed the importance of the European Code Against Cancer and the role of nurses in prevention. The 5th edition of the Code, launched in 2021, makes 12 recommendations proposing actions individuals can take to reduce their cancer risk. Cancer nurses can play a key role in the clear communication of these to patients and the wider public.
Download the presentation from the ECND21 web page |
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| | Lena Sharp, EONS Past-President – EONS Cancer Prevention Plan The EONS Cancer Prevention Plan (ECPP) was introduced during ECND21. The Plan aims to raise awareness, build capacity, promote health and address health literacy. Its activities will include education and research aimed at the general public, people affected by cancer and healthcare professionals. Its work will be undertaken in collaboration with other relevant collaborating partners. |
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ECND21 COMPETITION –
CANCER PREVENTION VIDEOS |
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| | The ECND21 competition invited cancer nurses to make a short video about cancer prevention and highlight the role cancer nurses play in this. The joint winners of the ECND21 competition were: Mark Dornan from Northern Ireland and Nieves Gil from Spain. They both receive the prize of free registration for the virtual EONS14 conference.
View the winning movies and other ECND videos |
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| THANKS TO THE ECND TASK GROUP |
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EONS14 – Virtual:
EONS Safety Webinar 2: Personal Protective Equipment when handling cancer drugs Non-medical Prescribing in Cancer Care virtual 8 June, 2021 (20% discount for EONS members with code hcuk20eons)
8th International Nursing Conference
Sixth Advanced Breast Cancer International Consensus Conference 4-6 November 2021, Lisbon, Portugal
Trends in Head and Neck Oncology
1st Pain360 Congress Vienna, Austria,1-3 December 2021 |
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| | European Oncology Nursing Society
BLSI- bte 1.30.30 Clos Chapelle au Champs 30
1200 Brussels, Belgium
Tel: 0032 2 880 62 96
eons.secretariat@cancernurse.eu |
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