دانلود کتاب Supportive and Palliative Care in Cancer: an Introduction

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Content: Front Cover
Contents
About the authors
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Section 1: Cancer
What is cancer?
What causes cancer?
Types of cancer
Detecting cancer
Cancer diagnosis and monitoring
Section 2: Cancer treatments
How is cancer treatment chosen?
Surgery
Radiotherapy: overview
Radiotherapy: side effects
Chemotherapy: overview
Chemotherapy: side effects
Hormone therapy
Section 3: Supportive and palliative care
What is palliative care?
Principles of palliative care
Palliative care: who and when?
Section 4: Cancer pain
What is pain?
What sorts of pain are there? When a patient is in pain, what should I do?Drugs used to treat pain
Isn't morphine dangerous?
What do I do if the pain is getting worse?
Section 5: Symptoms
How can I help a patient who is constipated?
How can I help a patient who is nauseated or vomiting?
How can I help a breathless patient?
How can I help a patient with fatigue and weakness?
What can I do when a patient does not want to eat or drink?
Maintaining an environment for eating
How can I help a patient with mouth problems?
Section 6: Communication
Why is communication so important? What can I do to relieve a person's anxiety?How do I answer a difficult question?
What about breaking bad or difficult news?
How can I help an angry person?
How can I help a withdrawn patient?
How can I help a confused patient?
Do children understand what is going on?
How does illness affect how we see ourselves?
Identifying distress when communication is poor
Section 7: Dying and bereavement
What is loss and grief?
How can I support the patient, partner and relative?
How do I help with a dying patient's distress?
What do I do when a patient dies? Death of a patient's friend or relativeSupporting staff after a patient has died
Complicated grief
Section 8: Spirituality and equality
Fostering hope
What is spirituality?
How can I help someone with a different faith to mine?
How can I avoid discrimination?
Glossary
Back Cover.