Cancer Nursing: Care in Context, 2nd EditionISBN: 978-1-4051-2253-5
Paperback
736 pages
March 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Wiley E-Text, E-book
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Preface .
Contributors.
Part 1: Cancer, Care, and Society .
1. What is cancer? Jessica Corner .
2.Knowledge and caring: a philosophical and personal perspective Alan Cribb .
3. Cancer, care, and society Christopher Bailey .
4. Cancer epidemiology Elizabeth Davies and Vivian Mak .
5.Developments in the management of cancer Alastair Munro .
Part 2: The Experience of Cancer .
Introduction.
6. The impact of cancer Mary Wells .
7.The impact of cancer on the family Hilary Plant .
8. The impact of cancer on health care professionals Anne Lanceley .
9. Therapeutic strategies in cancer care Anne Lanceley .
Part 3: The Experience of Treatment .
Introduction.
10. The experience of treatment Lynne Colbourne .
11. Surgery Stephen O’Connor .
12.Chemotherapy Lisa Dougherty and Christopher Bailey .
13. Radiotherapy Sara Faithfull .
14. Endocrine therapies Deborah Fenlon .
15. Complementary and alternative therapies Caroline Hoffman .
16. Hereditary cancer Audrey Ardern-Jones, Sarah Thomas, Rebecca Doherty,.
and Rosalind Eeles .
Part 4: The Management of Cancer-related Problems .
Introduction.
17. Pain Meinir Krishnasamy .
18. Nausea and vomiting Meinir Krishnasamy .
19. Fatigue Meinir Krishnasamy .
20. Breathlessness Christopher Bailey .
21. Wound management Meinir Krishnasamy .
22. Lymphoedema Anne Williams .
23. Malignant ascites Nancy Preston .
24. Bone marrow suppression: neutropenia and thrombocytopenia.
Ruth Dunleavey .
25. Change in eating habits Jane Hopkinson .
26. Sexuality and cancer Isabel White .
27. Anxiety and depression Annabel Pollard and Meinir Krishnasamy .
28. Delirium Meinir Krishnasamy .
29. Acute events in cancer Stephen O’Connor .
Part 5: Needs and Priorities in Cancer Care .
Introduction.
30. The needs of children and adolescents Fay Scullion and Jenny Thompson .
31. The needs of older people Christopher Bailey .
32. Ethnicity, difference, and care Yasmin Gunaratnum .
33. Living with cancer long term: the implications of survival David Wright .
34. Self-management and self-help Claire Foster .
35. User involvement in cancer services David Wright and Jenny Walton .
36. Palliative care and cancer Sheila Payne .
37. Research and cancer care Jessica Corner .
Index