The Complete Guide to Relieving Cancer Pain and Suffering

Richard B. Patt, Susan S. Lang (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

464 Seiten

2006
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-531202-7 (ISBN)

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Intended for patients and caregivers on all aspects of cancer pain. This book illuminates the reasons why patients are so often undermedicated, and demonstrates that properly medicated patients are able to resume active lives and marshal strength to fight their disease, while those in chronic pain may jeopardise their potential for recovery.

Dr. Richard B. Patt, one of America's leading cancer pain experts, teams up with science writer Susan Lang to produce a much-needed, sensible handbook for patients and caregivers on all aspects of cancer pain. The authors illuminate the reasons why patients are so often undermedicated, including unfounded fears of addiction, patients thinking they need to tough it out, time-consuming paperwork for doctors who prescribe narcotics, and laws that fail to distinguish between drug abuse and the legitimate employment of narcotics. Lang and Patt demonstrate that properly medicated patients are better able to resume active lives and marshal strength to fight their disease - while those in chronic pain not only suffer, but also may jeopardise their potential for recovery. A Complete Guide to Relieving Cancer Pain and Suffering enables cancer patients to make informed decisions about their care and gives numerous, concrete suggestions on how patients and their families can work most efficiently and effectively with doctors. This volume will be of enormous value to the growing numbers of patients, family members, and health-care professionals who are determined to relieve needless cancer pain.

Richard B. Patt, M.D. is the President and Chief Medical Officer of the Patt Center for Cancer Pain and Wellness (www.cancerpain.org) in Houston. Susan S. Lang is a Senior Science Writer at Cornell University and the author or co-author of eleven books, including Headache Help and Beating the Blues: New Approaches to Overcoming Dysthymia and Chronic Depression.

PART I: CANCER AND ITS PAIN; PART II: THE PAINKILLERS; PART III: OTHER APPROACHES

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.2007
Zusatzinfo	5 line drawings, 5 tables
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	249 x 142 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Onkologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Palliativmedizin
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Schmerztherapie
ISBN-10	0-19-531202-3 / 0195312023
ISBN-13	978-0-19-531202-7 / 9780195312027
Zustand	Neuware