Practical, concise, and based on the current best evidence, the Oxford Handbook of Cancer Nursing is the essential aid for all nurses involved in the care of patients with cancer.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- 1: Introduction
- The Cancer Problem
- 2: Cancer epidemiology
- 3: Cancer biology
- 4: Cancer prevention and screening
- The Experience of Cancer
- 5: Living with and beyond cancer
- 6: Gail Eva: The social experience of cancer
- Supportive and palliative care
- 7: Supportive care
- 8: Patient information and involvement
- 9: Psychological, social, and spiritual support
- 10: Gail Eva: Rehabilitation of the cancer patient
- 11: Complementary therapies
- 12: Susi Lund: Palliative care
- 13: Ethics in cancer care
- Clinical management of cancer
- 14: Diagnosis and staging
- 15: Surgery and cancer
- 16: Paula Horne and Richard Brown: Radiotherapy
- 17: Systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT)
- 18: Toby Eyre: High dose therapy (autologous transplant)
- 19: Toby Eyre: Allogeneic haemopoietic stem cell transplantation
- 20: Clinical trials
- Management of major cancers
- 21: Bone and soft tissue cancers
- 22: Breast cancer
- 23: Central nervous system cancer
- 24: Colorectal cancer
- 25: Cancer of unknown primary (CUP)
- 26: Endocrine cancers
- 27: Anne Margrethe Phillips: Upper gastrointestinal cancers
- 28: Sammi Kaur-Gill: Genitourinary cancers
- 29: Gynaecological cancers
- 30: Toby Eyre: Haematological cancers
- 31: Head and neck cancers
- 32: HIV related malignancies
- 33: Lung cancer
- 34: Heidi Allen: Skin cancer
- 35: Karen Sherbourne: Teenage and young adult cancer
- Symptom management
- 36: Assessment
- 37: Toby Eyre: Bone marrow suppression
- 38: Toby Eyre: Blood product support
- 39: Thrombosis
- 40: Altered bowel function
- 41: Cancer-related breathlessness
- 42: Cancer-related fatigue
- 43: Malignant effusions
- 44: Nausea and vomiting
- 45: Nutritional disorders
- 46: John Curtin: Pain management
- 47: Susi Lund: Symptom management at the end of life
- 48: Psychological reactions to cancer
- 49: Other psychological problems encountered in people with cancer
- 50: Bridget Taylor: Sexuality and cancer
- 51: Skin and mucosal alterations
- Oncological emergencies
- 52: Oncological emergencies
