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Chemotherapy and immunotherapy guidelines and recommendations for practice / edited by MiKaela Olsen, Kristine B. LeFebvre, Suzanne Walker, and Elizabeth Prechtel Dunphy.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cancer--Nursing.
- Cancer.
- Chemotherapy.
- Chemotherapy--Decision making.
- Immunotherapy.
- Immunotherapy--Decision making.
- Neoplasms--therapy.
- Neoplasms--drug therapy.
- Neoplasms--nursing.
- Antineoplastic Agents.
- Antineoplastic Agents--adverse effects.
- Antineoplastic Agents--toxicity.
- Immunotherapy--adverse effects.
- Medical Subjects:
- Neoplasms--therapy.
- Neoplasms--drug therapy.
- Neoplasms--nursing.
- Antineoplastic Agents.
- Antineoplastic Agents--adverse effects.
- Antineoplastic Agents--toxicity.
- Immunotherapy.
- Immunotherapy--adverse effects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 816 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : Oncology Nursing Society, [2023]
- Summary:
- The Oncology Nursing Society's Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy Guidelines and Recommendations for Practice (second edition) provides nurses with the tools to understand how medications are used in cancer treatment, the effect of medication-related toxicities, and evidence-based recommendations to manage and treat these toxicities. This edition features many new cancer therapies approved since the 2019 publication. Extensive drug tables provide nurses with categorical drug information based on treatment type and tips for managing patients receiving these treatments.
- Contents:
- Professional practice considerations
- Ethics and legal issues
- Patient education
- Overview of cancer and cancer treatment
- Clinical trials and drug development
- Chemotherapy
- Hormone therapy
- Targeted therapy
- Principles of the immune system
- Immunotherapy
- Administration considerations
- Safe handling of hazardous drugs
- Infusion-related complications
- Myelosuppression
- Cardiovascular toxicities
- Pulmonary toxicities
- Hepatic toxicities
- Genitorurinary toxicities
- Altered sexual and reproductive functioning
- Cutaneous toxicities and alopecia
- Endocrine toxicities
- Fatigue
- Neurologic toxicities
- Other toxicities
- Post-treatment and survivorship care.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Olsen, MiKaela Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy Guidelines and Recommendations for Practice (Second Edition)
- ISBN:
- 1-63593-056-1
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