Overview

Palliative Care Consultations in Haemato-oncology is the first book in a new international, multi-contributed series aimed at providing practical, clinical guidance on how to deal with difficult symptoms related to specific cancer sites. Patients with haematological malignancy often undergo the most rigorous treatments, usually requiring long inpatient stays at tertiary referral centres far removed from friends, families and everyday life. The treatment for some malignancies is palliative, although aggressive, from diagnosis and there can be a number of difficult symptom-control problems all of which are covered in this book. This volume draws on the expertise of the haematologist who is vital if the patient is to have optimal care and provides practical advice in an easily accessible form so that the book can be read and referred to on the ward, or before a domiciliary visit.

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Author:   Sara Booth (, Macmillan Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Addenbrooke's Palliative Care Service, Cambridge, UK) ,  Eduardo Bruera (, Professor and Chair, Department of Palliative Care and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA) ,  Jenny Craig (, Consultant Haematologist, Addenbrooke's Palliative Care Team, Cambridge, UK)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9780198528081

ISBN 10:   0198528086
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   02 October 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

1: Jenny Craig: Management of myeloma 2: Kristian Bowles & Robert Marcus: Management of lymphoma 3: Santiago Pavlovsky, Pablo Desmery & Maria Cecilia Dignani: Management of acute leukaemias 4: Ghulam Mufti & Kavita Raj: Myelodysplastic syndromes 5: Helen Balsdon & Jenny Craig: Bone marrow and peripheral blood stem cell transplantation 6: Sue Closs: Palliative care for patients undergoing intensive chemotherapy 7: Ilora Finlay, Pia Amsler & Rosemary Wade: Mouth care for haematology patients 8: Anna Spathis: The essentials of symptom control in haemato-oncology 9: Annette Vielhaber & Russell Portenoy: When the opioid fails: managing the patient with severe neuropathic pain 10: David Jeffrey & Ray Owen: Changing the emphasis from active curative care to active palliative care in haematology patients 11: Wale Atoyebi, Tim Littlewood & Robert Twycross: The significance and management of anaemia in palliative care patients 12: Beverley Hunt & Simon Noble: Thrombotic and bleeding complications in haematological malignancies 13: Mary Miller: The management of sweating 14: Lorraine Moth & Cathy Alban-Jones: Home care for terminally ill haematology patients 15: Fiona Hicks: The last days of life

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Whilst the target audience is the hospital palliative care team, this concise and reasonably priced volume would undoubtedly also be valuable to doctors and specialist nurses in haematology... Overall I would certainly recommend this book. Palliative Medicine, 18

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