Tokyo Women's Medical University

Graduate School of Nursing

Practical Nursing I (Cancer Nursing)

Overview

The Department of Cancer Nursing offers a master's thesis course. With the aim of fostering individuals who will become researchers and educators in oncology nursing and leaders in the clinical field, students clarify their own research topics and conduct research using methods appropriate to the topic.

Possible Research Themes

We offer a wide range of research topics in the area of cancer nursing and palliative care. In the master's thesis course, students receive research guidance with the aim of becoming independent educators and researchers in the future.
Students can tackle research topics on various aspects related to cancer nursing and palliative care, such as symptom management of cancer patients, QOL of cancer patients and their families, bereavement care, quality assurance of palliative care, improvement and evaluation of nurses' palliative care practice skills, and palliative care education for undergraduate students.

Faculty

Takae Machida
Masako Koizumi

Thesis Themes and Main Practice Facilities

■ Thesis Themes

Master's Thesis Themes
- The experience of a patient who received gamma knife treatment for metastatic brain cancer.
- The significance of treatment choice and continuation of treatment for patients with relapsed hematopoietic cancer.
- The patient's thoughts on treatment decision making in late-stage adult patients with non-remitting or relapsed hematologic malignancies.

■ Main Practice Facilities

- Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital
- Kitasato University Hospital
- Nippon Medical School Hospital

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