cover image - Nursing Patients with Cancer: Principles and Practice - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780702060366
Copyright: 2006
Publication Date: 12-13-2005
Page Count: 864
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
List Price: $125.00

Nursing Patients with Cancer: Principles and Practice - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 1st Edition

by Nora Kearney and Alison Richardson

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

cover image - Nursing Patients with Cancer: Principles and Practice - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780702060366
Copyright: 2006
Publication Date: 12-13-2005
Page Count: 864
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
List Price: $125.00
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  • SECTION 1 Philosophies of Cancer Nursing and the Context of Care
    Section Editor: Yvonne Wengstrom
    1. Concepts of health behaviour
    A Topping
    2. Partnerships in care
    Y Wengstrom, C Forsberg
    3. The social and cultural context of cancer care
    K Ahlberg

    SECTION 2 The Scientific Basis of Cancer Care
    Section Editors: Diane Batchelor, Jaqualyn S Moore
    4. Cancer epidemiology
    H Evans, A Newnham, H Moller
    5. Genetic basis of cancer
    A Matakidou, T Eisen
    6. Pathology
    F Bosman
    7. The immunological basis of cancer
    J Moore


    SECTION 3 Prevention, Early Detection and Diagnosis
    Section Editor: Agnes Glaus
    8 Prevention
    A Glaus, S Aguinaga Bialous, P Rieger Trahan
    9 Early detection
    A Glaus, P Rieger Trahan

    SECTION 4 Treatment and Care
    Section Editors: Sara Faithfull, Mary Wells
    10 Decision making in cancer care
    AJ Munro
    11 The experience of cancer treatment
    D Fitzsimmons, J Middleton
    12 Surgery
    AM Thompson, M Wells
    13 Radiotherapy
    S Faithfull
    14 Chemotherapy in context
    M Coward, H Coley
    15 Biological therapy
    D Batchelor
    16 Bone Marrow Transplant
    Barry Quinn, Moira Stephens
    17 Hormone therapy in cancer care
    D Fenlon
    18 Complementary and alternative therapies in cancer care
    A Molassiotis, A Cawthorn, P Mackereth

    SECTION 5 Symptom Management
    Section Editors: Alexander Molassiotis, Gina Copp
    19 missing
    20 Nausea and vomiting
    A Molassiotis, S Borjeson
    21 missing
    22 Constipation and diarrhoea
    T Andrewes, C Norton
    23 Management of breathlessness in people with cancer
    S Moore, H Plant, M Bredin
    24 Skin and wound care
    W Naylor
    25 Cancer-related lymphoedema and its management
    J-A MacLaren
    26 Oral complications in patients with cancer
    KK Cheng
    27 Alopecia
    D Batchelor
    28 Maligant effusion
    S Dolan, N Preston
    29 Anorexia, cachexia and malnutrition
    A Molassiotis, J Foubert
    30 Cancer-related fatigue
    K Ahlberg
    31 The impact of cancer and cancer therapy on sexual and reproductive health
    I White
    32 Altered body image
    D Harcourt, N Rumsey
    33 Psychological care for patients with cancer
    E Furlong, S O’Toole


    SECTION 6 Care Delivery Systems
    Section Editors: Maggie Grundy, Emile Maassen
    34 Cancer care and cancer nursing
    M Grundy, E Maasson
    35 Intensive nursing care of the cancer patient
    S Dolan
    36 Rehabilitation and survivorship
    M Wells, S MacBride
    37 Palliative care
    S Mirando
  • Nora Kearney, Professor of Cancer Care, Director, Cancer Care Research Centre, Department of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Stirling, UK and Alison Richardson, Professor of Cancer and Palliative Care Nursing, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College, London, UK
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