The UK Association of Supportive Care in Cancer Handbook of Supportive Oncology

Herausgeber: Ahamed, Ashique; Berman, Richard; Heyworth, Ben

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Palliative care - which focuses on advanced disease and end of life - has a special and important role within this broader and longer-term scope of supportive care in cancer. This handbook defines the new and emerging specialty and equips its workforce with the appropriate skill sets.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781032440095
• ISBN-10: 1032440090
• Artikelnr.: 72178195

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors
Section I: Setting the Scene
1. Introduction
Section II: Clinical challenges for supportive oncology
2. Managing treatment and cancer-related acute issues: Acute Oncology
3. Pain and Symptom Management
A. Pain Assessment. B. Symptom Management. C. Cancer-associated thrombosis
Section III: Rehabilitation and Survivorship
4. Survivorship and Late Consequences of Treatment
A. Survivorship and Personalised Care. B. Late Consequences of Treatment
5. Patient Optimisation and Rehabilitation
Section IV: Special Populations
6. The Age Spectrum
A. Older People and Frailty. B. Teenagers and Young Adults
7. Intersectional approaches to supportive oncology
Section V: Organisational Changes
8. Reviewing relationships with palliative and end-of-life care
9. The Future - How do service models need to adapt?
Index