System Test

Canadian Association of Nurses in Oncology
Cancer and Weight Loss — What we know and what we can do.

Wednesday, September 15th, 2004

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Speaker: Sarah Thirlwell, RN, MSc, MSc(A)
Email: sthirlwell@nurs.jgh.mcgill.ca
Clinical Nurse Specialist in Pulmonary Oncology,
Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital
Faculty Lecturer, School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University

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Topics:

• Complex signs and symptoms of weight loss due to cancer
• Nursing approaches, pharmacological and non-pharmacological, to increase energy intake and decrease energy expenditure
• Factors causing the energy imbalance between intake and expenditure, methods of assessment
• Tips on helping patients and families cope

Ms Thirlwell, a clinical nurse specialist in pulmonary oncology, holds Masters in Science in Biochemistry and in Nursing, and is a faculty lecturer at McGill University. She combines her nursing expertise and her knowledge of molecular biology and oncogenesis to help patients and families to understand cancer, its symptoms and treatments.

Ms. Thirlwell is also a member of the McGill University Cancer Nutrition-Rehabilitation Program Team. She collaborates with the associates in the disciplines of medicine, physiotherapy and dietetics to help patients who are suffering from the debilitating cancer-related symptoms of cachexia, anorexia and asthenia.

Host: Kim Chapman, R.N., M.Sc.(N.)
Email: Kim.Chapman@rvh.nb.ca
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Oncology, River Valley Health
Fredericton, New Brunswick
Chair CANO Web Site Committee

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