Osteoporosis ; Treatment advances in surgical oncology
By: Linda Pachucki-Hyde, Betsy McClung, Mary Jennings, guest editors.
Contributors: Pachucki-Hyde, Linda.; McClung, Betsy.; Jennings, Mary.
Series: The Nursing clinics of North America -- v. 36, no. 3
Publisher: Saunders
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 630
Subjects: Osteoporosis; Bones -- Diseases -- Nursing; Cancer surgery; Cancer -- Treatment; Nursing -- Practice
Other titles: Treatment advances in surgical oncology.
Notes: "September 2001"

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pathophysiology of osteoporosis and fracture / Joan M. Lappe; title: Assessment of risk factors for osteoporosis and fracture / Linda Pachucki-Hyde; title: Diagnostic imaging and biochemical markers of bone turnover / Cathy R. Kessenich; title: Role of calcium, vitamin D, and other essential nutrients in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis / Rachel Dowd; title: Pharmacologic therapy for the treatment and prevention of osteoporosis / Betsy McClung and Michael McClung; title: Exercise in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis: the role pf physical therapy and nursing / Kerry L. Hertel and Margaret G. Trahiotis; title: Corticosteroid-induced osteoporosis / Beth Lucasey; title: Osteoporosis in men / Rene Rizzoli, Marie-Anne Schaad, and Brigitte Uebelhart; title: Quality of life in osteoporosis / George Ioannidis, Marilyn Gordon, and Jonathan D. Adachi; title: Case studies in osteoporosis management and prevention / Carolyn J. Bolognese; title: Current trends in surgical management of head and neck carcinomas / Ann Marie Bauer; title: Advances in surgical treatment of malignant melanoma / Vicki Viar; title: Surgical therapies for lung carcinomas / Susan L. Knippel; title: Breast cancer: initial diagnosis and current treatment options / Alice F. Judkins and Jeri Akins; title: Evaluation and management of gastric adenocarcinoma / Michelle B. Waller; title: Management of soft tissue sarcoma / Dennis Graham; title: Surgical approaches to pancreatic cancer / Pam Stanford; title: Current surgical management of colorectal cancer / Deborah Baker; title: Hepatocellular carcinoma: surgical treatment options / Karen B. Gonzalez and Misty Woodall; title: Recent surgical approaches to gynecologic oncology / Margaret Stewart Duffy; title: The surgical oncology patient: provider obligations and legal rights / David B. Waller.