Overview
- Emphasis on the necessity of a disease-specific approach in palliative care
- Examines the needs of patients with advanced cancer in comparison to those with non-cancer disease
- Identifies the requirements of patients with different cancers
- Highlights complex therapeutic strategies with varying aims
- Explains basic principles of symptom control
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Oncology and Palliative Care: Disease Specific Perspectives
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Front Matter
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The Final Phase
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Front Matter
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Pharmacological Aspects
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About this book
Palliative care provides comprehensive support for severely affected patients with any life-limiting or life-threatening diagnosis. To do this effectively, it requires a disease-specific approach as the patients’ needs and clinical context will vary depending on the underlying diagnosis. Experts in the field of palliative care and oncology describe in detail the needs of patients with advanced cancer in comparison to those with non-cancer disease and also identify the requirements of patients with different cancer entities. Basic principles of symptom control are explained, with careful attention to therapy for pain associated with either the cancer or its treatment and to symptom-guided antineoplastic therapy. Complex therapeutic strategies for palliative cancer patients are highlighted that involve both cancer- and symptom-directed options and address a range of therapeutic aims. Issues relating to drug use in palliative cancer care are fully explored, and a separate section is devoted to care in the final phase. A range of organizational and policy issues are also discussed, and the book concludes by considering likely future developments in palliative care for cancer patients. Palliative Care in Oncology will be of particular interest to palliative care physicians who are interested in broadening the scope of their disease-specific knowledge, as well as to oncologists who wish to learn more about modern palliative care concepts relevant to their day-to-day work with cancer patients.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Palliative Care in Oncology
Editors: Bernd Alt-Epping, Friedemann Nauck
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46202-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-46201-0Published: 08 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51298-2Published: 01 November 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-46202-7Published: 26 March 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 308
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oncology, Nursing, Pain Medicine