Palliative Care Consultations in Advanced Breast Cancer

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2005
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-853075-6 (ISBN)

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This book is designed to give the busy clinician immediate, easy-to-access and practical advice on clinical problems which may arise in the management of advanced breast cancer. These problems may be rare or common but all are difficult to manage. This book provides current guidelines for management from an authoritative team of palliative care specialists and oncologists.

This is the fourth volume in a new international, multi-contributed series aimed at providing practical, clinical guidance on how to deal with difficult symptoms related to specific cancer sites. In this volume the Editors bring together first-rate palliative care with oncological treatment for patients with advanced breast cancer.

The book is presented in a user-friendly handbook format, with use of tables and algorithms to ensure that it is portable, accessible and can be read and referred to on, or before going to, the ward, or before a domiciliary visit. Specialists in palliative care and oncology settings, working in the acute sector and in hospices, will find the book invaluable. It will also appeal to consultants as well as specialist registrars, clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners in palliative care and oncology.

The Palliative Care Consultations series is primarily aimed at those individuals working in an acute hospital cancer centre and/or tertiary referral centre. Books are designed to give the busy clinician advice on clinical problems, both those rarely encountered and those that are very common, but difficult. The volumes are site specific and each volume encompasses a review of the current oncological or haemato-oncological management of advanced disease with symptom control advice. These volumes will give clinicians excellent advice on symptom control in the context of palliative care. The books will also be of use and interest to other professions working in acute hospitals.

1. Current management of advanced breast cancer ; 2. Pain control in advanced local disease ; 3. Psychological and social issues for patients with advanced breast cancer ; 4. The management of odours and wounds in advanced local disease ; 5. The assessment and management of lymphoedema ; 6. The management of carcinomatous meningitis in advanced breast cancer ; 7. The management of fatigue in breast cancer ; 8. The use of bisphosphonates in advanced breast cancer ; 9. The management of pain and other complications from bone metastases ; 10. The management of malignant pleural effusions in breast cancer

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.11.2005
Reihe/Serie	Palliative Care Consultations
Mitarbeit	Berater: Helena Earl
Zusatzinfo	Tables and line drawings
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	258 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Onkologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Palliativmedizin
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Schmerztherapie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Palliativpflege / Sterbebegleitung
ISBN-10	0-19-853075-7 / 0198530757
ISBN-13	978-0-19-853075-6 / 9780198530756
Zustand	Neuware