| Description |
xxxvi, 1879 pages ; 29 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Jones and Bartlett series in oncology |
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Jones and Bartlett series in oncology.
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| Contents |
Biology of cancer -- Immunology -- Epidemiology -- Cultural diversity among individuals with cancer -- Dynamics of cancer prevention -- Screening and detection for asymptomatic individuals -- Genetic risk for cancer -- Diagnostic evaluation, classification, and staging -- Quality of life as an outcome of cancer -- Principles of clinical research and development -- Surgical therapy -- Principles of radiation therapy -- Radiation treatment planning -- Radiation therapy: toxicities and management -- Chemotherapy: principles of therapy -- Chemotherapy: principles of administration -- Chemotherapy: toxicities and management -- Principles of bone marrow and hematopoietic cell trans -- Techniques of hematopoietic cell transplantation -- Complications of hematopoietic cell transplantation -- Biologic and targeted therapy -- Gene therapy -- Hematopoietic therapy -- Complementary and alternative medicine -- Cancer-related distress -- Assessment of cancer pain -- Management of cancer pain -- Infection -- Bleeding -- Fatigue -- Nutritional disturbances -- Hypercalcemia -- Paraneoplastic syndromes -- Malignant effusions and edema -- Sexual and reproductive dysfunction -- Cardiac tamponade -- Disseminated intravascular coagulation -- Septic shock -- Spinal cord compression -- Superior vena cava syndrome -- Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone -- Tumor lysis syndrome -- AIDS-related malignancies -- Bone and soft tissue sarcomas -- Bladder and kidney cancer -- Breast cancer -- Central nervous system cancers -- Cervical cancer -- Colorectal cancer -- Endocrine malignancies -- Endometrial cancer -- Esophageal cancer -- Gallbladder and bile duct cancer -- Head and neck malignancies -- Leukemia -- Liver cancer: primary and metastatic disease -- Lung cancers -- Lymphomas -- Multiple myeloma -- Ovarian cancer -- Pancreatic cancer -- Prostate cancer -- Skin cancers -- Stomach cancer -- Testicular germ cell cancer -- Vulvar and vaginal cancer -- Cancer survivorship: a critical aspect of care -- Late effects of cancer treatment -- Physical, economic, and social issues confronting patients -- Spiritual responses to cancer -- Principles and issues in palliative care -- Delivery of comfort care -- The oncology advanced practice nurse -- Evidence-based oncology nursing -- Legal issues -- Informatics -- Oncology nursing and professional advocacy.ℓï |
| Summary |
Rapid changes in oncology neccessitate a comprehensive, up-to-date reference for oncology nurses. For seventeen years, best-selling Cancer Nursing: Principles and Practice has filled this need, supplying oncology nurses with cutting-edge, current information. Now, in its Sixth Edition, Cancer Nursing reflects the constantly shifting progress in the science of oncology, as well as emerging new therapies, new treatment modalities, the latest results from clinical trials, updates on new chemotherapeutic agents and targeted therapies, and new perspectives on supportive care. The updated and revised Sixth Edition includes new chapters on the following topics: Screening and Detection for asymptomatic individuals; Hematopoietic growth factors; Complementary and alternative therapies; Distress Symptoms; Cancer Survivorship; Principles, models, history, and issues of end of life and palliative care; Delivery of comfort care; Legal issues in cancer nursing. - Publisher |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 5th ed., c2000 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Cancer -- Nursing.
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Neoplasms.
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Nursing.
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Oncology Nursing.
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Oncology Nursing -- methods.
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Neoplasms -- nursing.
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| Author |
Yarbro, Connie Henke.
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Goodman, Michelle.
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Frogge, Margaret Hansen.
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| LC no. |
2005007372 |
| ISBN |
0763747203 case-bound |
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