Peter Hoskin, Wendy Makin

Oncology for Palliative Medicine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Consultants and nurses in palliative medicine who do not have a background in oncology need to know about the different types of cancer to be able to deal with palliation in these patients. The new edition of this popular book continues to provide comprehensive coverage of cancer management aimed at palliative care professionals. The opening chapters describe the principles that lie behind surgical, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy treatments for cancer. Further chapters look in detail at different cancers, their aetiology, pathology and management pathways. The book goes on to consider the effects of advanced or metastatic cancer at various sites in the body, with emphasis on the pathophysiology of symptoms and the key factors that may influence treatment decisions. This book will help the reader to identify opportunities for active palliative care and focuses on the problems of recurrent and advanced cancer, discussing the key factors that may influence treatment decisions. To aid understanding in the specialty, the format of the book has been thoroughly revised to include numerous tables, figures, algorithms, case histories and key points to ensure that it will prove an invaluable, practical guide to oncology for all health care professionals involed in the care of patients with malignant disease.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 668g
• ISBN-13: 9780192628114
• ISBN-10: 0192628119
• Artikelnr.: 22234425

Autorenporträt

PETER HOSKIN, Reader in Oncology, Mount Vernon Hospital, Middlesex, UK, and WENDY MAKIN, Consultant in Oncology and Palliative Care, Christie Hospital, Manchester, UK

Inhaltsangabe

1: Palliative oncology
2: Cancer biology
3: Epidemiology and clinical trials
4: The role of surgical and radiological intervention in palliation
5: Principles of radiotherapy
6: Systemic therapy: chemotherapy, hormone therapy, biological therapy
7: Lung cancer and mesothelioma
8: Colorectal cancer
9: Breast cancer
10: Urological cancer
11: Upper gastrointestinal tumours
12: Head and neck cancer
13: Gynaecological cancer
14: Central nervous system tumours
15: Lymphomas
16: Leukaemia and myeloma
17: Skin tumours
18: Bone and soft tissue tumours
19: Malignancy of unknown primary site
20: Malignancy associated with HIV infection
21: Bone metastases
22: Live metastases
23: Metastatic disease of the thorax
24: Metastases involving the brain and meninges
25: Specific tumour-associated symptoms: pain
26: Other tumour-associated problems
27: Death