A report on mutual projects related to breast cancer nursing between Israel and China

Abstract

Breast cancer is a major concern in women′s health in the western world, and is now receiving more and more attention also in the East. In China, for example, where the incidence of breast cancer was very low, there has been a rapid increase of the disease since the last few years. This report describes how a collaborative nursing project between the Hadassah Medical Organization and the Tianjin Cancer Institute and Hospital was initiated, planned and implemented.

Keywords

• Breast cancer
• collaboration
• China
• Israel
• oncology nursing