Principles and Practice of Palliative Care and Supportive Oncology

The first truly interdisciplinary book on supportive oncology and palliative care returns with a
new edition that serves as a practical guide to the management of the myriad symptoms and quality-
of-life issues that occur in patients with cancer?including newly diagnosed patients, patients
undergoing treatment, cancer survivors, and patients whose disease is no longer curable. The
interdisciplinary group of contributors includes leading experts in hospice care and palliative
medicine, oncology, nursing, neurology, psychiatry, anesthesiology, and pharmacology.
This completely revised edition features new chapters on caregiver stress, hepatic failure,
pulmonary failure, research issues in palliative care, and beginning a palliative care program.
Content has been aligned with the needs of today's palliative care fellowship programs and includes
additional tables, algorithms, and flow charts.

SYMPTOMS AND SYNDROMES

Pain: Cancer Pain: Principles of Assessment and Syndromes / Difficult Pain Syndromes: Bone Pain,
Visceral Pain, Neuropathic Pain / Opioid Pharmacotherapy / Nonopioid and Adjuvant Analgesics / Non-
Pharmacologic Management of Pain / Physiatric Approaches to Pain Management / Neurosurgical
Interventional Approaches to Pain

Constitutional Symptoms: Assessment and Management of Cancer-Related Fatigue / Fever and Sweats /
Hotflashes

Gastrointestinal Symptoms and Syndromes: Anorexia/Weight Loss / Dysphagia/Speech Rehabilitation /
Chemotherapy-Related Nausea and Vomiting / Chronic Nausea and Vomiting / Diarrhea, Malabsorption,
and Constipation / Bowel Obstruction / Diagnosis and Management of Ascites / Hiccups and other
Gastrointestinal Symptoms / Oral Manifestations and Complications of Cancer Therapy

Skin: Pruritus / Treatment of Tumor-Related Skin Disorders / Management of Pressure Ulcers and
Fungating Wounds / Lymphedema / Principles of Fistula and Stoma Management

Cardiopulmonary and Vascular Syndromes: Management of Dyspnea / Hemoptysis / Airway Obstruction,
Bronchospasm, and Cough / Management of Advanced Lung Disease Including Pleural and Pericardial
Effusions / Management of Advanced Hepatic Disease / Management of Advanced Heart Failure /
Management of Hypercoagulable States and Coagulopathy

Genitourinary Symptoms and Syndromes: Urologic Issues of Palliative Care / Management of Renal
Failure

Metabolic Disorders: Hypercalcemia / Metabolic Disorders in the Cancer Patient

Selected Neurologic Symptoms and Syndromes: Headache and Other Neurologic Complications /
Management of Spinal Cord and Cauda Equina Compression / Neuromuscular Dysfunction and Palliative
Care

Selected Psychiatric Symptoms and Syndromes: Cognitive Disorders: Delirium and Dementia /
Depression and Anxiety / Substance Abuse Issues in Palliative Care


ISSUES IN PALLIATIVE CARE

Definitions and Models: Epidemiology and Prognostication in Advanced Cancer / Epidemiology and
Prognostication in Non-Cancer Diagnoses / Definitions and Models of Palliative Care / Hospice

Assessment Issues: Multidimensional Patient Assessment / Cross-Cultural Issues / Communication
during Transitions of Care

Therapies with Palliative Intent: Palliative Radiation Therapy / Palliative Chemotherapy /
Palliative Surgery / Palliative Orthopedic Surgery / Palliative Endoscopic and Interventional
Radiologic Procedures

Other Issues in Palliative Care: Psychosocial Consequences of Advanced Cancer / Disorders of
Sexuality and Reproduction / Home Care and Caregivers / Management of Symptoms in the Actively
Dying Patient / Spirituality / Bereavement Care / Starting a Palliative Care Program / Staff Stress
and Burnout

ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN PALLIATIVE CARE: Advance Directives and Assessment of Decision-Making
Capacity / Withholding and Withdrawing Potentially Life-Sustaining Treatment / Palliative Care and
Physician-Assisted Death / Palliative Care: Ethics and the Law

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