4. 2. 3. 4. Common cancers with inherited predisposition. Abbreviations -- Dedications -- Section 1 : Introduction -- 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 -- Cancer epidemiology -- The cancer problem -- UK situation -- UK mortality -- Survival -- Aetiology -- 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 -- 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. 10. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Rehabilitation of the cancer patient. 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 -- 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 -- Supportive care -- Background -- Communication in cancer care -- Promoting effective communication -- Imparting significant news (breaking bad news) -- Information and user involvement -- Information -- Patient and family involvement in decision-making -- patient involvement in evaluating and managing health care -- Psychological, social, and spiritual support -- Therapeutic relationships with people with cancer -- Psychological support -- Specific psychological interventions -- Social support -- Spiritual support and chaplaincy -- Rehabilitation of the cancer patient -- Rehabilitation of the cancer patient. 17. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. New approaches in chemotherapy treatment. Complementary therapies -- Regulation and training -- Palliative care -- Background -- Interface between cancer and palliative care services -- Caring for dying people -- Bereavement -- Models of bereavement -- Support for the bereaved -- Ethics in cancer care -- Introduction and overview of ethical guidance -- End of life issues -- Withdrawing and withholding treatment -- Section 5 : Clinical management of cancer -- Diagnosis and staging -- Diagnosis, classification, and staging of cancer -- Patient assessment -- Radiological imaging -- Staging and grading cancer -- Surgery and cancer -- Cancer surgery -- Preparing patients for cancer surgery -- Perioperative care of patients -- Radiotherapy -- Principles and uses -- Treatment modalities -- Treatment planning and delivery -- Management of radiotherapy treatment and its side effects -- Skin toxicity -- Chemotherapy -- Principles and uses -- Chemotherapy regimens -- Safe handling -- Safe administration -- Routes of administration -- Oral chemotherapy -- Administering vesicants and extravasation -- Side effects and complications -- Chemotherapy in the home setting -- New approaches in chemotherapy treatment. 24. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. Nursing management issues. Background -- Assessment and management of side effects -- Biological therapy -- Principles -- Immunotherapy -- Monoclonal antibodies -- Other biological therapies -- High dose therapy (autologus transplant) -- Principles and uses -- Conditioning -- Nursing issues of high dose therapy -- Allogeneic haemopoietic stem cell transplantation -- Principles -- Complications of allogeneic transplant -- Reduced intensity conditioning (RIC) transplants -- Clinical trials -- Clinical trials in the cancer setting -- Phases of clinical trials -- Nurses' responsibilities -- Vulnerable patients -- Section 6 : Management of major cancers -- Bone cancer -- Bone sarcomas -- Soft tissue sarcomas -- Surgical treatments -- Metastatic bond disease (MBD) -- Breast cancer -- Introduction -- Diagnosis and staging -- Management of non-invasive breast cancer -- Management of early breast cancer -- Adjuvant treatment of early breast cancer -- Management of locally advanced breast cancer -- Management of metastatic breast cancer -- Breast reconstruction -- Nursing management issues. 30. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. Nursing management issues. Introduction -- Classification of primary CNS tumours -- Management of primary CNS malignancy -- Metastatic brain disease -- Nursing management issues -- Colorectal cancer -- Introduction -- Treatment approaches to colorectal cancer -- Care of the patient with a stoma -- Nursing management issues -- Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) -- Introduction and prognosis -- Treatment and nursing management -- Endocrine cancers -- Introduction and types of endocrine cancers -- Upper gastrointestinal cancers -- Introduction -- Oesophageal cancer -- Gastric cancer -- Small intestine and carcinoid tumours -- Cancer of the liver (Hepatocellular cancer) -- Cancer of the gall bladder and bile ducts -- Pancreatic cancer -- Nursing management issues -- Genitourinary cancers -- Renal cancer -- Cancer of the bladder and ureter -- Prostate cancer -- Testicular cancer -- Penile cancer -- Nursing management issues. 36. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. Non-melanoma skin cancer. Introduction -- Ovarian cancer -- Cancer of the cervix -- Endometrial cancer -- Vulval and vaginal cancer -- Nursing management issues -- Haematological cancers -- Introduction -- Acute leukaemia -- Chronic leukaemia -- Hodgkin's lymphoma (Hodgkin's disease) -- Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) -- Myeloma -- Head and neck cancers -- Introduction -- Treatment of head and neck cancer -- Laryngectomy and tracheostomy -- Nursing management issues -- HIV related cancer -- HIV related malignancies -- Nursing management issues -- Lung cancer -- Introduction -- Management of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) -- Management of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) -- Mesothelioma -- Nursing management issues -- Skin cancer -- Malignant melanoma -- Non-melanoma skin cancer. 46. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. Support of specific nutritional complications. Assessment -- Introduction -- Process of assessment -- Assessment tools -- Quality of life (QoL) -- Dimensions of QoL -- QoL in practice -- Bone marrow suppression -- Bone marrow function -- Anaemia -- Neutropaenia -- Treatment of febrile neutropaenia and sepsis/septic shock -- Bleeding -- Bleeding in advanced cancer -- Blood product support -- blood products -- The nurse's role in blood product transfusions -- Thrombosis -- Venous thrombosis -- Altered bowel function -- Diarrhoea -- Constipation -- Bowel obstruction -- Cancer-related breathlessness -- Causes, diagnosis, and assessment -- Management -- Cancer-related fatigue -- Causes and assessment -- Management -- Malignant effusions -- Introduction -- Malignant pleural effusion -- Nausea and vomiting -- Treatment-related nausea and vomiting (ANV) -- Nausea and vomiting in advanced cancer -- Nutritional disorders -- Nutritional issues -- Nutritional support -- Support of specific nutritional complications. 51. 48. 49. 50. 51. Assessment and support. Introduction -- Pain assessment -- Principles of analgesic use -- Classification of pain -- Use of opioid drugs -- Use of syringe drivers in pain control -- Non-pharmacological interventions for pain management -- Symptoms management at the end of life -- Introduction -- Noisy breathing : 'death rattle' -- Terminal agitation -- Psychological reactions to cancer -- Introduction -- Adjustment, stress reactions, and disorders -- Supporting the cancer patient through periods of adjustment -- Psychological assessment -- Depression -- Suicide and suicidal ideas -- Treatment of depression -- Anxiety -- Anxiety management -- Pharmacological treatment of anxieity -- Assessment and support of the anxious patient -- Other psychological problems encountered in people with cancer -- Accute confusional states -- Psychoses and their management -- Violence and aggression -- Alcohol misuse -- Nursing management of people who are alcohol dependent -- Altered body image -- Introduction -- Assessment and support. 54. 53. 54. Index. Introduction -- Assessment and communication about sexual health -- Skin and mucosal alterations -- Hair loss (alopecia) -- Scalp cooling (scalp hypothermia) -- Oral mucositis and related problems -- Oral mucositis : managing the process and symptoms -- Oesophagitis -- Oral care in advanced cancer -- Malignant wounds -- Lymphoedema -- Section 8 : Oncological emergencies -- Oncological emergencies -- Anaphylaxis -- Disseminated intravascular coagulation -- Malignancy induced hypercalcaemia -- Spinal cord compression -- Superior vena cava obstruction -- Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone -- Tumour lysis syndrome -- Useful websites -- Index.
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