History

1987

The Japanese Society of Cancer Nursing (JSCN) inaugurated (February) (Representative: Fusako Kakigawa)

Held the First Conference of the Japanese Society of Cancer Nursing (Chair: Fusako Kakigawa, February, Tokyo)

Issued the Journal of the Japanese Society of Cancer Nursing, Vol. 1, No. 1, (December)

Prepared the regulations of the Japanese Society of Cancer Nursing (draft)

1988

Held the Second Conference of the Japanese Society of Cancer Nursing (Chair: Fusako Kakigawa, February, Tokyo)

Started to implement the regulations of the Japanese Society of Cancer Nursing

1989

Held the Third Conference of the Japanese Society of Cancer Nursing (Chair: Fusako Kakigawa, February, Tokyo)

Peer review system of submitted papers started.

1990

Held the Fourth Conference of the Japanese Society of Cancer Nursing (Chair: Fusako Kakigawa, February, Tokyo)

Publishing of peer-review papers started from Vol. 4 of the Journal of JSCN (August).

Annual education seminar by the education and research activity committee started.

1991

Held the Fifth Conference of the Japanese Society of Cancer Nursing (Chair: Fusako Kakigawa, February, Tokyo)

Stipulation and enactment of regulations on "selecting councilors of the Japanese Society of Cancer Nursing"

1992

Held the Sixth Conference of the Japanese Society of Cancer Nursing (Chair: Misako Kojima, February, Tokyo)

Enactment of the submission guidelines of the Journal of JSCN

1993

Started to rotate the chair of a conference among regular members approved by the general meeting

Held the Fifth Conference of the Japanese Society of Cancer Nursing (Chair: Mieko Kihara, February, Yokohama)

1996

Approved as a member research organization of the Science Council of Japan

International activities committee started.

1997

Certified nursing on cancer pain management nursing applied by JSCN specified

1999

Certified nursing on cancer chemotherapy nursing applied by JSCN specified

2001

Editorial committee started.

Society Regulations and Public Relations committees started

Formulated regulations on "academic meeting"

Formulated regulations on "general meeting"

Joined the Japan Liaison Council of Nursing Academies (now Japan Association of Nursing Academies)

2003

Held the First International Conference of the Japanese Society of Cancer Nursing (Chair: Reiko Sato, Osaka)

2004

Certified nursing on breast cancer nursing applied by JSCN specified

Opened web pages of the society

2005

The logo mark of JSCN selected (20th anniversary project)

Started researches and studies on nursing art that can gain remuneration

Liaison with the Social Insurance Union Societies Related to?Nursing?(Kanhoren) started.

Started investigation of the core curriculum for cancer nursing

2006

Committee of the Special Interest Groups of the Japanese Society of Cancer Nursing started.

Activities of Special Interest Groups of the Japanese Society of Cancer Nursing (JSCN-SIG) started.

2007

Held the Second International Conference of the Japanese Society of Cancer Nursing (Chair: Hiroko Komatsu,Tokyo)

Translated Core Curriculum for Oncology Nursing (Fourth edition) of Oncology Nursing Society

2008

Certified nursing on radiation therapy nursing applied by JSCN specified

2009

Translated CHEMOTHERAPY AND BIOTHERAPY GUIDELINES AND

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PRACTICE (2nd Edition)

Stipulated the regulations on the Japanese Society of Cancer Nursing award

2010

Prepared the "Cancer nursing core curriculum Japanese version 2010 (Part 1)"

Prepared the "Core Curriculum for Oncology Nursing, Japanese Version (2010)"

Committee for developing cancer nursing skills started.

Awards Committee started.

2012

Prepared cancer nursing guidelines

Evaluation Committee started.

2013

Changed the name to "(General Incorporated Association) Japanese Society of Cancer Nursing"

Established the secretariat and transferred the administrative and member management functions to the secretariat

Prepared the "Core Curriculum for Cancer Nursing PartⅡ(Practices)"

Translated "Putting Evidence into Practice: Improving Oncology Patient Outcomes (version1.2)" of Oncology Nursing Society

2014

Issued the "2014 Guideline for Chemotherapy Nursing of Cancer Outpatients: Prevention and early detection of extravasation of carcinostatic agent and device-related complication and measures, 2nd version"

2015

Practical Guide Series in Cancer Nursing (consisting of 5 books) supervised by the (General Incorporated Association) Japanese Society of Cancer Nursing issued

The "2015 Joint Guidelines on Exposure Prevention during Cancer Chemotherapy" by the Japanese Society of Cancer Nursing, Japanese Society of Medical Oncology and Japanese Society of Pharmaceutical Oncology issued