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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.

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Book
Contributor:
Olsen, MiKaela, editor.
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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