Prognosis in Advanced Cancer
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 March 2008
- ISBN 9780198530220
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages456 pages
- Size 246x171x23 mm
- Weight 738 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 47 black and white line illustrations and 14 black and white photographs 0
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Short description:
In order to make decisions and offer quality health care, it is essential to be able to predict survival and other outcomes. This practical, evidence-based book brings together prognosis information for patients with advanced cancer.
MoreLong description:
Predicting survival and other outcomes is increasingly being recognized as an important skill for palliative care doctors and nurses, oncologists, and other healthcare professionals who treat patients with advanced cancer. Accurate prognosis is essential if we are to offer quality of care and 'a good death', as well as to aid decision-making. There is much prognostic information available that is scattered throughout the palliative care and oncological literature but this is the first time it has been gathered systematically in one place.
Glare and Christakis, leaders in the field of prognosis, bring together a team of international contributors from across the fields of palliative care and oncology. This comprehensive but practical guide begins with the principles of prognostication, including formulating the prediction and then communicating it. Topics such as statistical issues, evidence-based medicine, and the ethics of prognostication are also covered. The second section addresses prognostication in 15 specific cancer sites once they have reached the advanced stage, following a standard template for consistency and easy access to the key information. The third section deals with prognostication in patients with a variety of common clinical conditions at the end of life, such as bowel obstruction, hypercalcaemia, and brain metastases. In addition, survival curves are provided within each chapter, palliative care conditions are examined for the first time, and a summary table of long and short term prognosis ensures this book remains practical.
...the quality of this book is outstanding...very necessary for physicians and other medical personnel.
Table of Contents:
PART 1: SCIENCE OF PROGNOSTICATION
Overview: advancing the clinical science of prognostication
Differences in prognostication between early stage cancer and advanced cancer
Foreseeing: formulating an accurate prognosis
Foretelling: communicating the prognosis
Statistical concepts and issues related to prognostic models
Evidence based medicine
Tools for formulating prognosis
Ethics
PART 2: PROGNOSTICATION IN SPECIFIC CANCERS
Lung cancer
Colorectal cancer
Breast cancer
Bladder cancer
Prognosis of prostate cancer
Pancreatic cancer
Hepatoma
Head and neck cancer
Gynaecological cancer
Brain cancer
Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL)
Leukaemia and myeloma
Sarcoma
Unknown primary
Melanoma
PART 3: PROGNOSIS IN PALLIATIVE CARE
Bone secondaries
Brain secondaries
Leptomeningeal disease
Liver metastases
Lung secondaries
Hypercalcemia
Spinal cord compression
Pain relief
Malignant bowel obstruction
Breathlessness
Delirium
Weight loss
Fatigue
