Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy for Nurses: A Guide to Principles, Practice and Care

By Samantha Toland, Emma Filby, Alison Simons

This text introduces and explains all aspects of systemic anti-cancer therapy, from pharmacology to administration and beyond, providing the underpinning knowledge to support completion of the UKONS SACT competency passport.

Written by experienced practitioners and lecturers, this concise book:

- critically analyses how the pharmacological properties of anti-cancer drugs and their role at various stages of the cell cycle impacts on their administration;

- examines the management of patients receiving systemic anti-cancer therapy;

- explores the health and safety, professional and legal aspects of administration of anti-cancer drug therapy; and

- appraises the holistic needs of patients receiving systemic anti-cancer therapy.

Each chapter includes case scenarios, illustrations, further reading and self-assessment exercises to aid learning.

This is the perfect book for nurses who are undertaking a university-accredited systemic anti-cancer therapy course or are new to practising in the field.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 103285085X
• ISBN13: 9781032850856
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 220 Pages