When cancer crosses disciplines
Subtitle: a physician's handbook
By: editors, Monica Robotin, Ian Olver, Afaf Girgis
Publisher: Imperial College Press; Distributed by World Scientific Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; Singapore; Hackensack, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1166
ISBN-13: 9781848163645
Subjects: Medical Oncology; Oncology; Interdisciplinary Communication; Methods; Cancer; Neoplasms; Therapy; Treatment; Patient Care Team
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sect. I. Cancer prevention. Cancer and the epidemiologist. 1. Cancer and tobacco: its effects on individuals and populations / Bernard W. Stewart, Patricia F. Cotter and James F. Bishop; title: 2. Reviewing the evidence on the effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions / Nicholas Zwar; title: 3. Diet, physical activity and cancer - the epidemiological evidence / Erica L. James ... [et al.]; title: 4. Sun exposure, vitamin D and cancer / Bruce Armstrong and Anne Kricker; title: 5. Oral contraceptives, hormone replacement therapy, and cancers of the female reproductive system / Karen Canfell and Emily Banks; title: 6. Involuntary exposures - can knowledge keep pace with perceptions? / Bernard W. Stewart; title: Sect. II. Interdisciplinary management issues in cancer treatment. IIa. Beyond cancer treatment. 7. Diagnostic dilemmas during and after chemotherapy treatment / Ian N. Olver; title: 8. Acute and late radiation therapy effects / Sandro V. Porceddu ... [et al.]; title: 9. Oncological emergencies: diagnosis and management / Desmond Yip and Nicole Gorddard; title: 10. Managing cancer in pregnancy / Belinda E. Kiely and Kelly-Anne Phillips; title: 11. Addressing the nutritional needs of patients undergoing cancer treatment - a dietitian's view / Judy Bauer, Jane Read and Kathy Chapman; title: 12. Beyond conventional cancer treatments: the use of complementary therapies during cancer treatment: implications for clinicians / Stephen J. Clarke ... [et al.]; title: 13. What matters to patients and carers / Kendra J. Sundquist and Monica C. Robotin; title: IIb. Cancer and the surgeon. 14. Neurosurgical involvement with cancer patients / Mark A.J. Dexter and Juyong Cheong; title: 15. Cancer and the thoracic surgeon / Edmund Kassis and Stephen C. Yang; title: 16. Cancer and the oesophageal surgeon / Urs Zingg, Reginald V. Lord and David I. Watson; title: 17. Abdominal emergencies in cancer patients: diagnosis and management / Brian badgwell and Barry Feig; title: 18. Peri-operative management of patients with GI malignancy: the interdisciplinary approach / Ross C. Smith; title: 19. Management challenges following rectal cancer treatment / Margaret Schnitzler; title: 20. Management of nutritional issues after major pancreatic resections / Nam Q. Nguyen, Neil D. Merrett and Andrew V. Biankin; title: 21. Management decisions in primary and secondary liver cancer / Mark E. Brooke-Smith and Robert T.A. Padbury; title: 22. Cancer and the gynaecological oncologist / D.E. Marsden; title: 23. Orthopedic emergencies in oncology / Valerae O. Lewis and Jeffrey T. Luna; title: 24. Recognition, treatment and management of post-cancer treatment lymphoedema / Neil Piller; title: 25. Diagnostic and management challenges following radical prostatectomy / Manish I. Patel; title: 26. Plastic and reconstructive surgery in oncological surgery / Sean Nicklin and Mohammad Rahnavardi; title: 27. Cancer and the ENT surgeon / Timothy P. Makeham ... [et al.]; title: IIc. Cancer and the physician. 28. Thyroid cancer and the endocrinologist / Nirusha Arnold and Howard C. Smith; title: 29. The effects of cancer therapy on gonadal function and fertility / Howard C. Smith; title: 30. Cancer and thrombosis / Jerry Koutts; title: 31. Haematological abnormalities in cancer patients / Philip J. Crispin and Ian W. Prosser; title: 32. Managing the patient with chronic viral hepatitis receiving chemotherapy / venessa Pattullo and Jacob George; title: 33. Management of malignant gastrointestinal tract obstruction / Eric Y.T. Lee, Vu Kwan and Michael J. Bourke; title: 34. Cancer and the heart: the good, the bad and the ugly / Liza Thomas and David Richards; title: 35. No-man's land: between paediatric and adult medical oncology / Lisa M. Orme, Susan Palmer and David thomas; title: 36. Cancer and the geriatrician - managing cancer in older people / Robert J. Prowse; title: 37. Cancer and the general practitioner. The role of the GP in cancer diagnosis and treatment / Moyez Jiwa; title: IId. Cancer and the geneticist. 38. Genetic testing for cancer susceptibility: how and when? / Judy Kirk; title: 39. Management of women at high familial risk of breast and ovarian cancer / Kathryn M. Field and Kelly-Anne Phillips; title: 40. Management of high genetic risk bowel cancer / Barbara Leggett; title: 41. Hereditary mutations and cancer management / Alison H. Trainer and Robyn Ward; title: Sect. III. Surviving cancer. IIIa. Survivorship issues. 42. Cancer and the psycho-oncologist. Psychosocial well-being of cancer survivors / Jane Turner, Katharine Hodgkinson and Allison Boyes; title: 43. Understanding and managing changes in survivor identity and relationships / Paul Y. Cheung and Ian H. Kerridge; title: 44. Survivors of childhood cancer: issues and challenges / Carmen L. Wilson, Richard J. Cohn and Lesley J. Ashton; title: 45. The benefits of nutrition and physical activity for cancer survivors / Kathy Chapman ... [et al.]; title: IIIb. cancer, palliative care and end of life issues. 46. Palliative and supportive care / Geoffrey Mitchell and David C. Currow; title: 47. Cancer care and general practice palliative care / Paul Mercer; title: 48. Spiritual and existential issues at the end of life / Bruce Rumbold.