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 matter-of-fact 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 rest home care and palliative medicine, oncology, nursing, neurology, psychiatry, anesthesiology, and pharmacology. This absolutely 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.