Nutrition and the cancer patient
By: edited by Egidio Del Fabbro ... [et al.].
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 519
ISBN-13: 9780199550197
Subjects: Nutrition; Patients; Therapy; Cancer; Neoplasms; Nutritional Support
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and definitions / Vickie E. Baracos; title: Metabolism and physiology / Vickie E. Baracos and Henrique A. Parsons; title: Assessment of nutritional status / Vickie E. Baracos ... [et al.]; title: Epidemiology of body weight and body weight loss and its relation to cancer / Egidio Del Fabbro and Vickie E. Baracos; title: Mechanisms of primary cachexia / Vickie E. Baracos and Henrique A. Parsons; title: Conducting clinical research in cancer cachexia / Henrique A. Parsons and Eduardo Bruera; title: Appetite stimulants / Florian Strasser and David Blum; title: Anabolic hormones / Jose Garcia; title: Immune modulators / Egidio Del Fabbro; title: Autonomic system modulators / Nada Fadul; title: Multimodality therapy / Egidio Del Fabbro; title: Classification of cancer cachexia and secondary nutrition impact symptoms / Florian Strasser; title: Oral complications / Carla Ida Ripamonti ... [et al.]; title: Nausea and vomiting in advanced cancer / Mellar P. Davis; title: Early satiety / Mellar P. Davis; title: Disordered bowel function / David Blum and Florian Strasser; title: Depression and fatigue / Elizabeth Kvale, Casey Balentine Azuero, Eric Walker; title: Counseling by dietitians / Laura Elliot and Barbara Parry; title: Multidisciplinary approach to nutritional problems / Colette Hawkins ... [et al.]; title: Nutritional support : an overview / Tim E. Bowling.; title: Oral and enteral nutrition / Jeremy Woodward; title: Nutrition in advanced malignancy: parental nutrition, palliative surgery and gastrointestinal stents / Pradeep F. Thomas and Dileep N. Lobo; title: Ethics and medically assisted nutrition and hydration / Paulina Taboada, Alejandra Palma, and Beatriz Shand; title: Cultural and religious factors / Sarah Toule; title: Nutrition and complementary and alternative medicine / Eran Be-Arye, Dena Norton, Moshe Frenkel; title: Exercise therapy / Lee W. Jones; title: The cancer survivor / Wendy Demark-Wahnefried; title: Nutritional management of patients receiving primary cancer therapy / Richard D. Johnson, Rachel A. Barrett, and Tim E. Bowling; title: Nutritional management in recurrent, advanced or metastatic cancer / Shalini Dalal; title: Patients at the end of life / Egidio Del Fabbro; title: Paediatric patients / Sian Kirkham and Martin Hewitt; title: Nutritional care of older people / Jane Hopkinson and Christopher Bailey; title: Nutrition and comorbidities / Marvin Omar Delgado Guay; title: Patients in the developing world / Richard Harding and Liz Gwyther; title: Involuntary weight loss and altered body image in patients with cancer anorexia-cachexia syndrome / Susan E. McClement.