Oxford handbook of cancer nursing
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Oxford handbook of cancer nursing
（Oxford handbooks in nursing）
Oxford University Press, 2007
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Handbook of cancer nursing
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Dedications
- Section 1 : Introduction
- 1
- Introduction
- Scientific advances
- Policy initiatives
- Clinical implications
- Specialist nursing roles
- The
- role of the patient in cancer care
- The
- multidisciplinary team
- The
- National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
- Section 2 : The cancer problem
- 2
- Cancer epidemiology
- The
- cancer problem
- UK situation
- UK mortality
- Survival
- Aetiology
- 3
- Cancer biology
- Introduction
- Differences between normal cells and cancer cells
- Oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes (TSGs)
- Tumour growth
- Metastasis (spread of secondary tumour)
- Immunology
- Tumour classification
- 4
- Cancer prevention and screening
- Cancer prevention
- Cancer screening
- Screening recruitment
- Breast cancer screening
- Cervical cancer screening
- Bowel and prostate cancer screening
- Dietary prevention
- Smoking cessation
- Skin cancer prevention
- Cancer genetics
- Common cancers with inherited predisposition
- Section 3 : The experience of cancer
- 5. The
- personal experience of cancer
- Introduction
- The
- cancer journey
- Calendars
- Diagnosis
- Reactions to diagnosis and treatment
- Living with cancer
- Fear of recurrence
- Recurrence and facing death
- Survivorship
- 6. The
- social experience of cancer
- The
- family experience of cancer
- Children and families
- Employment and finances
- Culture and the meaning of cancer
- Gender, age, and cancer
- Ethnicity and cancer
- Threats to personal identity
- Section 4 : Supportive and palliative care
- 7
- Supportive care
- Background
- Communication in cancer care
- Promoting effective communication
- Imparting significant news (breaking bad news)
- 8
- Information and user involvement
- Information
- Patient and family involvement in decision-making
- patient involvement in evaluating and managing health care
- 9
- Psychological, social, and spiritual support
- Therapeutic relationships with people with cancer
- Psychological support
- Specific psychological interventions
- Social support
- Spiritual support and chaplaincy
- 10
- Rehabilitation of the cancer patient
- Rehabilitation of the cancer patient
- 11
- Complementary therapies
- Complementary therapies
- Regulation and training
- 12
- Palliative care
- Background
- Interface between cancer and palliative care services
- Caring for dying people
- Bereavement
- Models of bereavement
- Support for the bereaved
- 13
- Ethics in cancer care
- Introduction and overview of ethical guidance
- End of life issues
- Withdrawing and withholding treatment
- Section 5 : Clinical management of cancer
- 14
- Diagnosis and staging
- Diagnosis, classification, and staging of cancer
- Patient assessment
- Radiological imaging
- Staging and grading cancer
- 15
- Surgery and cancer
- Cancer surgery
- Preparing patients for cancer surgery
- Perioperative care of patients
- 16
- Radiotherapy
- Principles and uses
- Treatment modalities
- Treatment planning and delivery
- Management of radiotherapy treatment and its side effects
- Skin toxicity
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Oxford Handbook of Cancer Nursing provides a systematic account of the main areas of cancer nursing practice. Covering all aspects of cancer care, it takes the reader from pre-diagnosis through treatment to issues of advanced disease and palliative care. It includes information on cancer biology, cancer genetics and cancer treatments, as well as material on new targeted therapies and complementary therapies. The symptom management section includes detailed guidelines on nursing assessment and psychosocial issues, communication, the experience of cancer, and family and carer issues. So you can find the information you need without delay, the book is clearly laid out with one topic per page, and written in an easily readable note-based style. Blank pages for writing notes, observations and local protocols allow your handbook to be customised to meet your specific needs. All this is available at your fingertips, in a pocket-sized handbook with hard-wearing plastic covers.
Written by practising nurses and subject experts, the Oxford Handbook of Cancer Nursing is a unique and invaluable companion to practising and student nurses, and to all health care professionals involved in the care of patients with cancer.
Table of Contents
- SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION
- SECTION TWO: THE CANCER PROBLEM
- 2. Cancer epidemiology
- 3. Cancer biology
- 4. Cancer prevention and screening
- SECTION THREE: THE EXPERIENCE OF CANCER
- 5. The personal experience of cancer
- 6. The social experience of cancer
- SECTION FOUR: SUPPORTIVE AND PALLIATIVE CARE
- 7. Supportive care
- 8. Information and user involvement
- 9. Psychological, social and spiritual support
- 10. Rehabilitation of the cancer patient
- 11. Complementary therapies
- 12. Palliative care
- 13. Ethics in cancer care
- SECTION FIVE: CLINICAL MANAGEMENT OF CANCER
- 14. Diagnosis and staging
- 15. Surgery and cancer
- 16. Radiotherapy
- 17. Chemotherapy
- 18. Hormonal therapy
- 19. Biological therapy
- 20. High does therapy (autologus transplant)
- 21. Allogeneic haemopoietic stem cell transplantation
- 22. Clinical trials
- SECTION SIX: MANAGEMENT OF MAJOR CANCERS
- 23. Bone cancer
- 24. Breast cancer
- 25. Central nervous system cancer
- 26. Colorectal cancer
- 27. Cancer of unknown primary (CUP)
- 28. Endocrine cancers
- 29. Upper gastrointestinal cancers
- 30. Genitourinary cancers
- 31. Gynaecological cancers
- 32. Haematological cancers
- 33. Head and neck cancers
- 34. HIV-related cancer
- 35. Lung cancer
- 36. Skin cancer
- SECTION SEVEN: SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT
- 37. Assessment
- 38. Bone marrow suppression
- 39. Blood product support
- 40. Thrombosis
- 41. Altered bowel function
- 42. Cancer-related breathlessness
- 43. Cancer-related fatigue
- 44. Malignant effusions
- 45. Nausea and vomiting
- 46. Nutritional disorders
- 47. Pain management
- 48. Symptom management at the end of life
- 49. Psychological reactions to cancer
- 50. Other psychological problems encountered in people with cancer
- 51. Altered body image
- 52. Sexual health and cancer
- 53. Skin and mucosal alterations
- SECTION EIGHT: ONCOLOGICAL EMERGENCIES
- 54. Oncological emergencies
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