Oncology for palliative medicine / Peter Hoskin and Wendy Makin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoskin, Peter J.

Contributor:

Makin, Wendy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cancer.

Oncology.

Cancer--Palliative treatment.

Neoplasms--therapy.

Palliative Care.

Medical Subjects:

Neoplasms--therapy.

Palliative Care.

Physical Description:

379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

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 involved in the care of patients with malignant disease.

Contents:

1 Palliative oncology 1

2 Cancer biology 7

3 Epidemiology and cancer trials 17

4 The role of surgical and radiological intervention in palliation 31

5 Principles of radiotherapy 37

6 Systemic therapy: chemotherapy, hormone therapy, biological therapy 51

7 Lung cancer and mesothelioma 67

8 Colorectal cancer 81

9 Breast cancer 91

10 Urological cancer 113

11 Upper gastrointestinal tumours 135

12 Head and neck cancer 151

13 Gynaecological cancer 165

14 Central nervous system tumours 189

15 Lymphomas 201

16 Leukaemia and myeloma 219

17 Skin tumours 235

18 Bone and soft tissue tumours 245

19 Malignancy of unknown primary site 253

20 Malignancy associated with HIV infection 263

21 Bone metastases 271

22 Liver metastases 291

23 Metastatic disease of the thorax 305

24 Metastases involving the brain and meninges 319

25 Tumour-associated problems: pain 331

26 Other tumour-associated problems 347

27 Death 363.

Notes:

Previous ed.: 1998.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0192628119

OCLC:

52193611