Pages: 672,
Specialty: Oncology,
Publisher: Elsevier,
Publication Year: 2011,
Cover: Mixed media product,
Dimensions: 226.06x281.94x30.48mm

The first reference of its kind, "Supportive Oncology," by Drs. Davis, Feyer, Ortner, and Zimmermann, is your practical guide to improving your patients' quality of life and overall outcomes by integrating palliative care principles into the scope of clinical oncologic practice at all points along their illness trajectories. A multidisciplinary editorial team, representing the dual perspectives of palliative medicine and supportive oncology, offers expert guidance on how to effectively communicate diagnoses and prognoses with cancer patients and their families, set treatment goals, and manage symptoms through pharmacological therapies, as well as non-pharmacological therapies and counselling when appropriate. The complete contents are available.show more