ABC of Cancer Care

Editors: Palmieri, Carlo, Bird, Esther and Simcock, Richard
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Wiley

Single-User Purchase Price: $35.95
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: $53.93
ISBN: 978-0-47-067440-6
Category: Health & Medicine - Medicine
Image Count: 49
Book Status: Available
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ABC of Cancer Care is a practical primary care guide to help health professionals better inform their patients, manage and recognize the common complications of cancers and their treatment, and understand the rationale and implications of decisions made in secondary and tertiary care.

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Table of Contents

  • List of Contributors
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Multidisciplinary Care, Richard Simcock
  • 2 Cancer Imaging, Guy Burkill; Adrian K.P. Lim
  • 3 Surgery, Daniel Richard Leff; Richard Simcock
  • 4 Surgery for Metastatic Disease, Timothy W.R. Briggs; Elizabeth J. Gillott; Lewis W. Thorne; Long R. Jiao
  • 5 Chemotherapy, Catherine Harper-Wynne; Catherine M. Kelly
  • 6 Toxicities of Chemotherapy, Sacha Jon Howell; Alison Jones; Colin R. James
  • 7 Radiotherapy, Alastair Thomson; Mark Beresford
  • 8 Toxicities of Radiotherapy, Russell Burcombe; Jonathan Hicks; Richard Simcock
  • 9 Endocrine Therapy, Carlo Palmieri; Matthew Flook; Duncan C. Gilbert
  • 10 Biological and Targeted Therapies, Ruth E. Board; Jennifer W. Pang; Carlo Palmieri; Suzy Cleator
  • 11 Trials in Cancer Care, Evandro de Azambuja; David Cameron; Janet E. Brown
  • 12 Oncological Emergencies, Thomas E. Newsom-Davis; Mohammed Rizwanullah
  • 13 Cancer in the Elderly, Alistair Ring; Juliet E. Wright
  • 14 Nutrition, Mhairi Donald
  • 15 Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Cancer Patients, Richard Simcock; Sarah Cavilla
  • 16 Specialist Nursing Care, Clare Sullivan; Beverley Longhurst; Amelia Cook; Elizabeth Bowman; Jean Rodell
  • 17 Cancer Survivorship, Esther Bird; Amy Guppy; Carlo Palmieri