Supportive care of children with cancer : current therapy and guidelines from the Children's Oncology Group / edited by Arnold J. Altman ; with a foreword by Gregory H. Reaman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Altman, Arnold J.

Children's Oncology Group.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cancer in children.

Cancer in adolescence.

Neoplasms.

Child.

Neoplasms--therapy.

Infant.

Medical Subjects:

Neoplasms.

Child.

Neoplasms--therapy.

Infant.

Physical Description:

xx, 412 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2004]

Summary:

Three of every four children and adolescents with cancer can now be cured. However, physicians are using increasingly intensive treatment regimens. These treatments can expose patients to toxic chemotherapeutic agents, invasive surgical procedures, and radiation oncology interventions that risk disfigurement, neuropsychiatric damage, and life-threatening organ toxicity. These potentially dire consequences have mandated that advances in cancer treatment go hand in hand with supportive care measures that sustain patients through their therapeutic ordeal and allow each patient to achieve maximum quality of life. In this book, now in its third edition, the subject of supportive care in pediatric oncology is covered in depth.

Supportive Care of Children with Cancer is a ready-reference handbook designed for use at the hospital bedside, in the oncology outpatient clinic, or in the physician's office. To create this book, leading experts in the field recommended approaches to supportive care which were then critically reviewed by members of the Children's Oncology Group, the world's largest cooperative study group for children's cancer. For students, house officers, fellows, pediatric oncologists, surgeons, nurses, nutritionists, social workers, and psychologists, this book provides essential information about the care of pediatric oncology patients.

The third edition features a new chapter on recognition, prevention, and remediation of burnout in pediatric oncology staff members, while throughout the book, chapters have been revised and updated to reflect the impact of new antibiotic agents, new antiemetics, and new approaches to pain management.

Contents:

The prevention of infection / Arnold J. Altman and Lawrence J. Wolff

Immunization / Caroline Hastings

The management of fever and neutropenia / Lawrence J. Wolff ... [et al.]

Blood component therapy / Dorothy R. Barnard and Zora R. Rogers

Hemorrhagic and thrombotic complications / J. Nathan Hagstrom and Paul T. Monagle

Hematopoietic growth factors / Jeffrey D. Hord and Julia Cartwright

Prevention and treatment of renal and urinary tract toxicity / Dorothy R. Barnard

Monitoring for cardiotoxicity / Debra L. Friedman

Monitoring and management of ototoxicity / Wendy Landier and Claudine Larson-Tuttle

Hepatotoxicity and modifications for therapy / John Iacuone

The management of drug extravasation / John S. Murphy and Claudia Deffenbaugh

Side effects of radiation therapy / Richard S. Pieters, Karen Marcus, and Robert B. Marcus, Jr.

Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting / Donna L. Betcher ... [et al.]

The management of pain / William T. Zempsky ... [et al.]

Oncologic emergencies / Edythe A. Albano and Eric Sandler

Nutritional support / Nancy Sacks, Karen Ringwald-Smith, and Gregory Hale

Mouth care / Paula K. Groncy and Richard D. Udin

Central venous access / Connie Goes and Joan Ronan

The sexually mature young adult patient with cancer / Paula K. Groncy and Melissa E. Huggins

Care of the hematopoietic stem cell transplant patient after leaving the transplant center / Kenneth De Santes and Adrianna Vlachos

Psychosocial care / Robert B. Noll and Anne E. Kazak

Recognition, prevention, and remediation of burnout in pediatric oncology staff / Corin M. Greenberg ... [et al.]

Complementary and alternative medicine in pediatric oncology / Susan F. Sencer, Kara M. Kelly, and John Iacuone

Palliative care / Sarah Friebert and Joanne M. Hilden.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0801879094

OCLC:

52813739