Nurses Group Awards

The Nurses Group Programme for EBMT 2008 received extremely positive feedback from the 698 Nurses who attended the meeting. The EBMT Nurses Group was pleased to bestow a number of prizes generously supported by industry partners:

Best Nurses Abstract, 1st Price, € 2'000 (sponsored by Fresenius Biotech) - No. N1137

Sexual dysfunctions during and after chemotherapy for haematological malignancy. Do patients want to know?

C. Eeltink*, M. van Koppen, O. Visser, P. Huijgens (Amsterdam, NL)    

Best Nurses Abstract, 2nd Price, € 1'000 (sponsored by Fresenius Biotech) - No. N1120

"In sickness and in health". The impact of marital breakdown for children undergoing haematopoietic stem cell transplantation

 M. van Kempen*, E. Wallaart, F. van Iperen, L.M. Ball, J.E.M. van Noort, C.M.J. Vrijmoet-Wiersma, A.J. van Zoest (Leiden, NL)

Leiden University Medical Center

Best Poster, € 1'000 (sponsored by Novartis Oncology) - No. P1175

Preventing infections in the haematopoietic cell transplantation recipient: what can the patients' families do?

A.L. Graça*, C. Pinhão, E. Wong, A.C. Nunes (Lisbon, PT)    

The Nurses Group Board is also to be congratulated on the success of this year’s Pre-meeting study day which was attended by 168 nurses, an increase of 118% on last year’s figures.