Cancer, poverty and human development: challenges for nursing care in oncology.

Unlabelled: This is a reflection on poverty, human development and their interfaces with Oncology Nursing Care.

Objectives: identify the prevailing types of cancer per region; point the challenges posed to nursing care; discuss the possibilities for Oncology Nursing actions in this context. In light of the demographic, epidemiologic and socio-cultural distribution of cancer in Brazil, a systematic articulation of the Oncology care, in situations of poverty and of low human development, represents a challenge for Nursing, as the necessary actions for prevention, early detection, treatment, and rehabilitation, range from low to high complexity.

[Cancer-related fatigue as a thematic issue in oncology nursing].

This study aims at investigating how scientific production in Oncology Nursing has approached fatigue, associating such production with the defining characteristics set forth by NANDA; and identifying those Nursing interventions performed for its prevention and/or treatment in those publications, correlating them with those interventions mentioned by NIC. It is a reflection on the theme of "fatigue" in the area of Oncology Nursing, which used the narrative bibliographical review as its method. The LILACS and MEDLINE bases were used for data access.

[Care to mastectomized woman: discussing ontic aspects and the ontological dimension in nurses performance at a Cancer Hospital].

This reflection approaches aspects related to the ontic and ontological dimensions that constitute and, therefore, permeate nursing care delivered to the client with breast cancer submitted to mastectomy. This reflexive analysis was developed considering the author's professional experience as a clinical nurse at the Cancer Hospital III and at the National Cancer Institute (INCA) as well as using the theoretical frameworks studied during her master and doctoral courses. Through a comprehensive attitude and using phenomenological interpretation, this study aimed at reflecting about nurse's clinical actions in the routine of an institution, pointing out possibilities for a care based on the existential dimension of the involved persons.