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Supportive and Palliative Care and Quality of Life in Oncology / edited by Bassem A. Hassan, Ali Mohammed.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cancer--Palliative treatment.
- Cancer.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (204 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- London : IntechOpen, 2023.
- Summary:
- This book examines supportive and palliative care and quality of life in cancer patients. Chapters address such topics as anxiety, depression, and delirium in terminally ill cancer patients, ethics in palliative care, palliative care medications, assisted suicide and euthanasia, and much more.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Section 1 Quality of Life among Cancer Patients
- Chapter 1 Introductory Chapter: Supportive and Palliative and Quality of Life among Cancer Patients by Bassam Abdul Rasool Hassan
- Chapter 2 The Quality of Life in Cancer Patients by Neeraj Gour and Meenakshi Chaudhary
- Chapter 3 Anxiety, Depression, and Delirium in Terminally Ill Cancer Patient by Susana Villa García Ugarte and Luis Enrique Miranda Calderón
- Section 2 Supportive and Palliative Care in Oncology Field
- Chapter 4 Palliative Care for Patients with Lung Cancer: A Review of the Current Developments in the Field and Perspectives on the Implementation of Care by Yuk-Chiu Yip, Ka-Huen Yip and Wai-King Tsui
- Chapter 5 Supportive and Palliative Care Attitude for Cancer Patients by Delgersuren Gelegjamts and Batbagana Burenerdene
- Chapter 6 Perspective Chapter: Palliative Surgery in Pediatric Cancer by Alessandro Inserra and Cristina Martucci
- Chapter 7 Ethics in Palliative Care by Metin Dincer
- Chapter 8 Palliative Care Therapies by Aisha Muthanna Shanshal
- Chapter 9 Feeding at the End of Life in Brazilian Amazon: Qualitative Analysis of Medical Indications by Caroline Anjos, Katherine Dambrowski, Antonio Godoy and Paula Barrioso
- Chapter 10 Leaving Early: The Reality of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in 2022 by Michael H. Plumer and Margaret C. Cecil
- Chapter 11 Prognostic Communication in the Era of Targeted Therapy and Immunotherapy by Sherri Cervantez, Matthew Butler and Anand Karnad.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (IntechOpen, viewed June 23, 2023).
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