Handbook of advanced cancer care /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. General concepts in oncology
- Principles of diagnosis and staging
- Principles of palliative chemotherapy
- Principles of palliative surgery
- Radiotherapy for palliation of symptoms
- ABCs of clinical trials
- Principles of cancer rehabilitation
- Principle of palliative nursing
- Ethics of decision making towards the end of life
- Breaking bad news
- The use of complementary/alternative medicine
- Understanding "hospice"
- Practical aspects of home care
- Cultural differences in advanced cancer care
- Implementing social services
- Pastoral care
- Bereavement
- pt. II. Primary tumors
- Lung cancer
- Breast cancer
- Colorectal cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Pancreatic and hepatobiliary cancer
- Anal cancer
- Esophageal and gastric cancer
- Head and neck cancer
- Kidney cancer
- Bladder cancer
- Ovarian cancer
- Gynecologic malignancies : endometrial and cervical carcinoma
- Testicular cancer
- Unknown primary site
- Mesothelioma
- Adult soft tissue sarcoma
- Osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma
- Melanoma
- Primary brain tumors
- Thyroid and adrenal cancer
- HIV-related cancer
- Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome and myeloproliferative disorder
- Multiple myeloma
- pt. III. Management of specific symptoms and syndromes
- Assessment of pain
- Drugs for managing cancer pain
- Difficult pain management problems
- Dyspnea
- Loss of appetite and weight
- Fatigue
- Depression and anxiety
- Delirium
- Constipation
- Palliation of fever and sweats : the heat is on!
- Bleeding in advanced cancer patients
- Thrombosis
- Hypercalcemia of malignancy
- Lymphedema
- Wound care of the advanced cancer patient
- Infections in patients with advanced cancer
- Urogenital complications
- Brain metastases
- Bowel obstruction
- Bone metastases
- Meningeal cancer
- Pleural and pericardial effusions
- Superior vena cava syndrome
- Chronic nausea