Drug delivery in cancer treatment III : home care--symptom control, economy, brain tumours
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Drug delivery in cancer treatment III : home care--symptom control, economy, brain tumours
(Monographs / European School of Oncology)
Springer-Verlag, c1990
- : gw
- : us
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Description
Home care in the delivery of drugs to cancer patients is the focus of this monograph in the European School of Oncology Monograph series. The implications of home care on the quality of life, curative or supportive potential, medical technology and education are discussed. The authors show how important it is to assess cost and evaluate the benefits or drawbacks of existing treatment alternatives. A recent project providing complex cancer therapy in the home serves as an example of cancer home care. Some of the specific topics are palliative symptom control, home parenteral nutrition and techniques for therapeutic anticancer drug monitoring. Ongoing basic and clinical research in drug design and drug delivery to brain tumours provides a model for future cancer treatment and completes this multidisciplinary volume.
Table of Contents
- Prospectives in home care
- symptom control in palliative home care
- long-term and home parenteral nutrition to cancer patients
- a home-care project for cancer patients in Germany - background and experiences
- economic evaluation of cancer treatments
- therapeutical drug monitoring of anticancer drugs
- a special case for drug delivery.
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