Editors:
New Challenges in Communication with Cancer Patients is an invaluable resource to medical professionals, educators and patients in establishing a strong and effective partnership built on trust and mutual understanding.
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Table of contents (42 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Ilness: Discovering Its Truth
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Front Matter
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The Cancer llness: Discovering Truth
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The Patient and the Family
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Front Matter
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The Patient and The Family
About this book
The relationship between oncologists and their cancer patients is rapidly evolving. Oncologists and other cancer professionals master new anticancer and supportive treatment options, while working under increasing economic pressure and time constraints, and are often unprepared to deal with all the challenges of their new position in a therapeutic relationship with cancer patients and families. Good communication is as essential as are modern laboratory tests and sophisticated diagnostics to achieve the best clinical results.
This book updates the evolution of truth-telling and communication patterns worldwide and offers insights into the recent trends and emerging challenges in communication with cancer patients and families. New Challenges in Communication with Cancer Patients is an invaluable resource to medical professionals, educators and patients in establishing a strong and effective partnership built on trust and mutual understanding.
Editors and Affiliations
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, Department of Medicine, New York University Medical School, New York, USA
Antonella Surbone
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Institute of Oncology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Matjaž Zwitter, Mirjana Rajer
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Astoria, USA
Richard Stiefel
About the editors
Antonella Surbone is a medical oncologist working in Italy and the US. Together with Professor Zwitter and Richard Stiefel, she authored and edited the 1997 New York Academy of Sciences volume Communication with the Cancer Patient: Information and truth, which inspired her further work and this present book.
Matjaz Zwitter is a radiation oncologist with a long-term interest in lung cancer, Hodgkin’s disease, and medical ethics. In addition, he serves as Professor of Medical Ethics at the Medical School, University of Maribor, Slovenia.
Mirjana Rajer is a medical oncology student at the Institute of Oncology, Ljubljana. She is involved in clinical research in lung cancer and conducts research in cancer-patient communication, with special emphasis on the impact of media and the Internet on patient-physician communication.
Richard Stiefel first worked with Drs. Surbone and Zwitter during his twenty years as Associate Editor of the Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences. He has had a parallel career as Lecturer in Music Theory at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Challenges in Communication with Cancer Patients
Editors: Antonella Surbone, Matjaž Zwitter, Mirjana Rajer, Richard Stiefel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3369-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-3368-2Published: 23 August 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8749-5Published: 20 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-3369-9Published: 23 August 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 528
Topics: Oncology, Medical Education