Penny Howard

Contact

• workRoom B228d West Block
  Queen's Medical Centre
  Nottingham
  NG7 2UH
  UK
• work0115 82 30949
• penny.howard@nottingham.ac.uk

Expertise Summary

Current roles:

Teaching Summary

Post Graduate/Registered education:

• Course Lead for Level 3 & 4 Cancer Course (CPD)
• Dissertation Supervisor for MSc in Advanced nurse and MSc in Nursing (GEN)

Undergraduate Pre-registration education:

• BSc in Nursing teaching:
  • Cancer curricula: Biosciences, Cancer Health Promotion, Impact of Cancer Diagnosis, Cancer Treatments, Oncological emergencies,
  • Clinical Learning
  • Clinical Skills
  • Dissertation Supervisor
  • Academic Assessor
  • Personal Tutor
  • University Lecturer for PLT9

Research Summary

Exploring older women with a primary breast cancer diagnosis experience of treatment decisions, using a qualitative, grounded theory methodology

• Member of the Cancer and Palliative care Advisory Group
• Member of the Cancer and Palliative care Research Group

Other responsibilities

• Member of the Cancer & Palliative care PLT
• Auditor for clinical placements
• PLT Representative for Wollaton ward, Park Hospital
• Dissertation supervisor

Past Research

Book

Howard P & Chady B. (2012). Placement Learning in Cancer & Palliative Care Nursing: A guide for students in practice. Elsevier.

Student-focused cancer education

• Scotting P and Howard P (2013). The Biology of Cancer. Cancer Nursing Practice. 12(4):14-20.
• Scotting P and Howard P (2013). The Causes of Cancer. Cancer Nursing Practice. 12(5):23-28.
• Scotting P and Howard P (2013). How genes affect the risk of developing cancer. Cancer Nursing Practice. 12(6):19-23.
• Pasalodos-Sanchez S; Howard P and Scotting P (2013). Identifying familial cancer risk'. Cancer Nursing Practice. 12(8):16-22.
• Howard P, Pasalodos-Sanchez S and Scotting P (2013). Implications and impact of genetic testing. Cancer Nursing Practice. 12(9):25-30.
• Scotting P and Howard P (2013). New methods of detecting cancer and identifying genetic risk of disease. Cancer Nursing Practice 12(10):16-21.

Clinical focused research

• Howard P; Cox K and Cheung KL (2019). Decision making in older women with primary breast cancer: The trade-off of the risks and benefits of treatments. Future Oncology. https://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/full/10.2217/fon-2019-0070
• Zahit RA; Parks RM; Howard P; Blake H and Cheung KL (2019). Quality of life evaluation and its relationship with treatment modalities among older women with primary operable breast cancer: Baseline results of a multi-centre study. Future Oncology. https://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/full/10.2217/fon-2019-0070
• Zahit RA; Parks RM; Howard P; Blake H; and Cheung KL (2018). Baseline quality of life evaluation in older women with primary operable breast cancer and its relationship with different treatments. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 36. https://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JCO.2018.36.15_suppl.e12601
• Howard P; Cox K and Cheung KL (2017). Treatment decisions: factors that influence older women with primary breast cancer. Future Oncology. 13(8):14-14. https://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/10.2217/fon-2017-0071
• Parks RM; Cox K; Howard P and Cheung KL (2017). Potential impact of treatment on the mood of older women of primary breast cancer. Future Oncology. 13(8):13-13. https://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/10.2217/fon-2017-0071
• Parks RM; Howard P; Cox K and Cheung KL (2016). Short-term change in comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) scores following treatment of primary breast cancer in older women. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 34:15 suppl:10060-10060. https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/JCO.2016.34.15_suppl.10060
• Parks RM; Hall L; Tang S-W; Howard P; Lakshmanan R; Winterbottom L; Morgan DA; Porock D; Cox K and Cheung KL (2015). The potential value of comprehensive geriatric assessment in evaluating older women with primary operable breast cancer undergoing surgery or non-operative treatment - A pilot study. Journal of Geriatric oncology 6. 46-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgo.2014.09.180
• Parks RM; Hall L; Tang SW; Lakshmanan R; Howard P; Winterbottom L; Morgan DAL; Porock D; Cox K and Cheung KL (2013). A pilot study exploring issues around decision making in older women with primary operable breast cancer. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 31 Supl:abstr. e20588. https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/jco.2013.31.15_suppl.e20588
• Parks RM; Howard P; Tang S-W; Hall L; Lakshmanan R; Winterbottom L; Morgan DA; Cox K and Cheung KL. (2012). Assessment of changes of quality of life (QOL) following initial treatment of older women with primary operable breast cancer. Journal of Geriatric Oncology 3. S1-S9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgo.2012.10.017
• Pollock K, Moghaddam N, Cox K, Wilson E and Howard P. (2011). Exploring patients' experience of receiving information about cancer: A comparison of interview and questionnaire methods of data collection. Health. 1461-7196. doi:10.1177/1363459309360789
• Pollock K, Cox K, Howard P, Wilson E and Moghaddam N. (2008). Service User experiences of information delivery following a diagnosis of cancer: a qualitative study. Supportive Care in Cancer. August 16(8):963-73. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-007-0363-3.

Conference presentations (oral and posters)

• Howard P, Cox K and Cheung KL. (2019). Decision-making in older women with primary breast cancer: The trade-off of the risks and benefits of treatments. 5th Symposium on Primary Breast Cancer in Older Women. International Society of Geriatric Oncology. Nottingham.
• Howard P, Cox K and Cheung KL. (2017). Treatment decisions: factors that influence older women with primary breast cancer. 4th Symposium on Primary Breast Cancer in Older Women. International Society of Geriatric Oncology. Nottingham.
• Howard P, Cox K and Cheung KL. (2016). Factors influencing treatment decisions made by older women with primary breast cancer. 16^th conference of the International Society of Geriatric Oncology. Milan, Italy.
• Howard P. (2010). Service user needs, preferences and experiences of follow-up information, once lung cancer treatment has been completed. UK Oncology Nursing Society. Manchester, UK.