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Publications
Cancer information in other languages
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Resources
Find out more about our member’s experience by reading their abstracts
or publications.
Clinical Trials: What cancer patients need to know. New Initiative in Italy. |
ChrisThomsen, Director, Office of Communications
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NIH |
International Cancer Information Service: A Worldwide Resource |
Doreen Akkerman, Mary Anne Bright, Catherine Dickens. David Hill, Michael Jefford, Marion Morra, ChrisThomsen, Anne Vézina. |
Key elements of a successful CIS:
1) Recruiting and training of qualified staff
2) Finding reliable resources of information
3) On-going quality assurance and collecting inquiry data
4) Collaboration with other relevant organisations and promoting your CIS
5) Development of a National Public Educational Facility for Preventing Cancer: Progress, Problems and Lessons Learnt
(PowerPoint presentation, UICC Conference, Washington, DC, 2006)
| Cora Honing, Director of Prevention and Patient Support, Dutch Cancer Society
Ingrid Aubry, Manager Cancer Awareness System,
French National Cancer Institute
Monika Preszly, Manager, Cancer Information Service, German Cancer Research Center
Flora Yong, Senior Nurse Manager, Cancer Education & Information Service
National Cancer Centre Singapore |
Physicians and CIS working together: extending into the Community
(PowerPoint presentation, UICC Conference, Washington, DC, 2006) |
Catherine Dickens,LondonUK.
Antonia Dawson, MacMillian Cancer Support, London, UK |
Les clés de la réussite pour un service d’information sur le cancer
(PowerPoint presentation, UICC Conference, Washington, DC, 2006)
| Robert Desmarais, Directeur, Information et Soutien Société canadienne du cancer
Ingrid Aubry, Responsable du programme de veille, Institut national du cancer, France
Anne Vézina, Directrice nationale Services d’ Information Société canadienne du cancer |
Cancer Information Services Serving the Community and your NGO
(PowerPoint presentation, Plenary presentation from UICC Conference, Washington DC, 2006)
| David J. Hill, Director, Cancer Council Victoria, Australia
Anne Vezina, President International CIS Group, Director, Information Services, Canadian Cancer Society
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Provision of information for cancer patients:
an appraisal and review
(PDF - 85Kb. Opens in new window) |
C. Smith, Information & Support
Services Manager, MacMillan Cancer Relief, London UK.
C. Dickens, Head of information Services, MacMillan
Cancer Relief, London UK.
S. Edwards, Information & Support
Services Manager, MacMillan Canada Relief, London, UK.
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Bridging the information and support
gap: evaluation of hospital-based cancer support nurse based service
(PDF - 1.2Mb. Opens in new window) |
S. Roberts, J. Freeman, D. Hill, Centre
for Behavioural Research in Cancer, Cancer Research Institute,
Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria
P. Schofield, Dept. of Haematology & Medical Oncology,
Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
D. Akkerman, Director, Cancer Information and Support Service, Anti-Cancer
Council of Victoria
A. Rodger, William Buckland Radiotherapy Centre, Alfred Hospital & Monash
University, Melbourne, Australia |
| Assessing
Need: Cancer Information Service
(Presentation, UICC Conference, Dublin 2004) |
D.
Akkerman, Director, Cancer Information
and Support Service, Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria, Marion
Morra, President,
Morra Communications, Anne
Vézina, Director, Cancer Information,
Canadian Cancer Society
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| International
Cancer Information Services: Results from three national user surveys
of cancer information services in the Untied State, Canada and Germany
(Presentation, UICC Conference, Dublin 2004) |
Mary Anne
Bright, Associate
Director, Office of Cancer Information Service, National Institutes
of Health, National Cancer Institute (NCI),
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| Macmillian
Cancer Relief Mobile Cancer Information Service
(Presentation, UICC Conference, Dublin 2004) |
Catherine
Dickens, Head of Information Services, Macmillan Cancer
Relief |
| Referral
for information & support as part of routine cancer management
(PowerPoint Presentation, UICC Conference, Dublin
2004) |
D. Hill,
P. Livingston, V. White, D. Akkerman,
Cancer Council, Victoria |
| Supervising
and supporting your Cancer Information Services staff
(Presentation, UICC Conference, Dublin 2004) |
D. Akkerman, Director, Cancer Information and Support
Service, Anti-Cancer
Council of Victoria |
| Using
short survey to evaluate customer satisfactions: Email and telephone
(Click for Abstract)
(Workshop Presentation, UICC Conference, Dublin
2004) |
Chris
Thomsen, Director, Office of Communications and Public
Liaison, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. |
New
ways of communicating cancer information: A modular approach
(PDF Presentation, UICC Conference, Dublin 2004) |
Monika Preszly, Cancer
Information Service, German Cancer Research Center
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| Collaboration adds value: The experience of the Cancer
Information and Support Service, The Cancer Society of New Zealand,
Wellington Division. |
Julie Holt,
Cancer Information Nurse, Cancer
Information and Support Service, Cancer Society of New Zealand, Wellington Division, New Zealand |
| Sexuality and Breast Cancer-
Addressing the taboo subject |
D. Akkerman, Director, A. Hordern,
R.N., B.N., Grad. Dip., M.Ed., MRCNA ;Cancer Information and Support Service, Anti-Cancer Council
of Victoria, Australia |
| Improving services for women
with breast cancer by establishing the role of breast care nurse
in Australia through a tertiary based distance education program |
Amanda Hordern, R.N., B.N., Grad. Dip. Ed., M. Ed., MRCNA.,
Doreen Akkerman, Director,
Cancer Information and Support Service; Anti-Cancer
Council of Victoria, 1 Rathdowne St, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia |
| Measuring the performance of telephone
information services - A literature review (PDF)
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Rebecca Byers and Sharon
Campbell, Centre for Behavioural Research and Program
Evaluation, National Cancer Institute of Canada, Anne
Vézina,
Canadian Cancer Society/National Cancer Institute of Canada |
| Integrating technology with
the human touch through Dialogue - The Canadian Cancer Society's
Cancer Information Service |
Donna Czukar and Anne Vézina,
Canadian Cancer Society |
| Using the model of a high performing
organization to evaluate and plan a quality program |
Chris Thomsen,
National Cancer Institute, USA |
| Using Instant Messaging |
Thomsen CA,
Stengle WA, Worrell MA. Ballard D |
Last Updated: 8 January 2008
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