An Evidence-Based Approach To The Treatment And Care Of The Older Adult With Cancer

Buch | Softcover

624 Seiten

2007
Oncology Nursing Society (Verlag)
978-1-890504-58-8 (ISBN)

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Highlighting a recent frontier in the field of oncology - the highly specialised and individually tailored care of the older adult - this text provides you with a comprehensive guide to caring for this ever-growing patient population.

With this next text, you will gain a thorough understanding of general and site-specific care and treatment guidelines and plans.

Topics include cancer and the aging population; research issues; physiology of aging; cancer screening; pharmacologic issues; nutritional care; symptom management of pain; sexuality; spiritual and palliative care; cancer survivorship; and more.

You will also gain valuable information on a variety of cancers and their specific effect on older adults; including breast, colorectal, head and neck, lung, prostate, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and hematologic malignancies and disorders. If you are caring for older adults with cancer, you should consider adding this new text to your nursing library!

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.1.2007
Verlagsort	Pittsburgh
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Altenpflege
ISBN-10	1-890504-58-0 / 1890504580
ISBN-13	978-1-890504-58-8 / 9781890504588
Zustand	Neuware