Nursing the Patient with Cancer

Name: Nursing the Patient with Cancer
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ISBN: 9780132297585

ISBN-10: 0132297582

ISBN-13: 9780132297585

Edition: 2nd 1996

Authors: Verena Tschudin

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Description:

This work gives complete coverage of the nursing care and interventions necessary to assist the patient whose basic functions are compromised by cancer or its treatment. All the main types of cancer are covered, and each of the organ-related chapters follow the same pattern: psychological care, epidemiology and aetiology, pathology and spread, diagnosis, treatment, effects and nursing care. All the chapters are written by nurses and practitioners in their fields

Book details

List price: $39.30
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 9.45" wide x 7.09" long
Language: English



Foreword


Preface to the first edition


Preface to the second edition


Contributors


Cancer care: history and progress


Cancer prevention


Diagnostic and staging investigations


Radiotherapy


Chemotherapy


Immunotherapy


Nutrition


Complementary therapies


Brain tumours


Skin cancers


Tumours of the head and neck


Tumours of the lung


Upper gastro-intestinal tract tumours


Colo-rectal tumours


Breast cancer


Gynaecological cancers


Male reproductive system cancers


Urinary tract tumours


Sarcomas


Lymphomas


Leukaemia


Paediatric malignancies


Rare tumours and AIDS-related tumours


Care of the dying


Nursing the patient in the community


Counselling


Staff support


Ethics


Index