Skin cancer clinical nurse specialists
If you are diagnosed with skin cancer, you will be put in touch with one of our skin cancer clinical nurse specialists to support you and help to coordinate your treatment.
Your nurse will meet with you after your diagnosis, and let you know who to contact if you have any concerns between appointments.
Your key worker is here to support you, your family and your friends in a number of ways. We can
- provide information and emotional support during your treatment and for as long as you need afterwards
- speak to you and your family (if you want us to) about your type of cancer, treatments and side effects or symptoms
- give you written information to support what you are told and contact details in case you need to ask any more questions
- help to communicate between members of your family or within your treatment team
- give you information about support groups and other organisations.
Cancer affects people in different ways. During your diagnosis and treatment, you may experience a range of strong emotions including fear, anger, numbness or hopelessness. These feelings can be difficult to cope with and it is not unusual to have times when you feel very low. Sometimes it can help to just talk things through. You may want to talk about making a decision about your treatment, coming to terms with the news of your diagnosis or living with the impact that the cancer is having on you and your family. It can be easier to talk to your key worker.
Our team
We are a team of four clinical nurse specialists:
- Lead clinical nurse specialist Majula Rajamani
- Clinical nurse specialists Alison Power, Kath Johnson and Mairead Sorapure
- Support worker Sarah Whitton
Our team will follow you right from being diagnosed in dermatology through to your referrals and treatments.
If you have questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact your key worker nurse or anyone from our team.
Contact us
You can reach us between 8.30am and 4.30pm, Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays) by calling 023 8120 4711 or 07768 656215.
Patient information
You can find out more about us and what we do in the information leaflet below: