Handbook of advanced cancer care / edited by Michael J. Fisch and Eduardo Bruera.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Ch. 1. Principles of diagnosis and staging -- Ch. 2. Principles of palliative chemotherapy -- Ch. 3. Principles of palliative surgery -- Ch. 4. Radiotherapy for palliation of symptoms -- Ch. 5. ABCs of clinical trials -- Ch. 6. Principles of cancer rehabilitation -- Ch. 7. Principles of palliative nursing -- Ch. 8. Ethics of decision making towards the end of life -- Ch. 9. Breaking bad news -- Ch. 10. The use of complementary/alternative medicine -- Ch. 11. Understanding "hospice" -- Ch. 12. Practical aspects of home care -- Ch. 13. Cultural differences in advanced cancer care -- Ch. 14. Implementing social services -- Ch. 15. Pastoral care -- Ch. 16. Bereavement -- Ch. 17. Lung cancer -- Ch. 18. Breast cancer -- Ch. 19. Colorectal cancer -- Ch. 20. Prostate cancer -- Ch. 21. Pancreatic and hepatobiliary cancer -- Ch. 22. Anal cancer -- Ch. 23. Esophageal and gastric cancer -- Ch. 24. Head and neck cancer -- Ch. 25. Kidney cancer -- Ch. 26. Bladder cancer -- Ch. 27. Ovarian cancer -- Ch. 28. Gynecologic malignancies: endometrial and cervical carcinoma -- Ch. 29. Testicular cancer -- Ch. 30. Unknown primary site cancer -- Ch. 31. Mesothelioma -- Ch. 32. Adult soft tissue sarcoma -- Ch. 33. Osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma -- Ch. 34. Melanoma -- Ch. 35. Primary brain tumors -- Ch. 36. Thyroid and adrenal cancer -- Ch. 37. HIV-related cancer -- Ch. 38. Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma -- Ch. 39. Leukemia, myelodysplastic syndrome and myeloproliferative disorder -- Ch. 40. Multiple myeloma -- Ch. 41. Assessment of pain -- Ch. 42. Drugs for managing cancer pain -- Ch. 43. Difficult pain management problems -- Ch. 44. Dyspnea -- Ch. 45. Loss of appetite and weight.

Ch. 46. Fatigue -- Ch. 47. Depression and anxiety -- Ch. 48. Delirium -- Ch. 49. Constipation -- Ch. 50. Palliation of fever and sweats: the heat is on! -- Ch. 51. Bleeding in advanced cancer patients -- Ch. 52. Thrombosis -- Ch. 53. Hypercalcemia of malignancy -- Ch. 54. Lymphedema -- Ch. 55. Wound care of the advanced cancer patient -- Ch. 56. Infections in patients with advanced cancer -- Ch. 57. Urogenital complications -- Ch. 58. Brain metastases -- Ch. 59. Bowel obstruction -- Ch. 60. Bone metastases -- Ch. 61. Meningeal cancer -- Ch. 62. Pleural and pericardial effusions -- Ch. 63. Superior vena cava syndrome -- Ch. 64. Chronic nausea.

Patients with advanced cancer increasingly receive end-of-life care from a variety of health care professionals, physicians and nurses. These professionals need to be able to assess the original diagnosis and the appropriateness of patient referral, set a treatment or palliation program, and recognise and plan for the clinical problems associated with specific primary tumors. This is the first comprehensive source of information available at a level between specialist oncology texts and nursing texts. Two eminent physicians from one of the world's foremost cancer centers have drawn together a remarkable team to provide a handbook which covers the full range of problems the healthcare workforce caring for these patients will encounter. This highly accessible text covers general principles in oncology, the primary tumors one by one, and management of specific symptoms and syndromes. It will be invaluable to primary care physicians, surgeons, nurses, therapists and trainees.