This is the fourth volume in a new international, multi-contributed series aimed at providing practical, clinical guidance on how to deal with difficult symptoms related to specific cancer sites. In this volume the Editors bring together first-rate palliative care with oncological treatment for patients with advanced breast cancer. The book is presented in a user-friendly handbook format, with use of tables and algorithms to ensure that it is portable, accessible and can be read and referred to on, or before going to, the ward, or before a domiciliary visit. Specialists in palliative care and oncology settings, working in the acute sector and in hospices, will find the book invaluable. It will also appeal to consultants as well as specialist registrars, clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners in palliative care and oncology. The Palliative Care Consultations series is primarily aimed at those individuals working in an acute hospital cancer centre and/or tertiary referral centre. Books are designed to give the busy clinician advice on clinical problems, both those rarely encountered and those that are very common, but difficult. The volumes are site specific and each volume encompasses a review of the current oncological or haemato-oncological management of advanced disease with symptom control advice. These volumes will give clinicians excellent advice on symptom control in the context of palliative care. The books will also be of use and interest to other professions working in acute hospitals.
Reviews
There is probably no area in which it is more important for the medical oncology and palliative care teams to work closely together than in the management of women with advanced breast cancer, which makes this latest addition to OUP's Palliative Care Consultations series most welcome...It will provide an excellent introduction to the management of women with advanced breast cancer and should be available wherever they are cared for. * Roger Woodruff, Director of Palliative Care, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia *
This book gives a comprehensive evidence-based account of different problems encountered in advanced breast cancer and will be useful for all the members of the breast cancer multidisciplinary team, more particularly medical staff and breast care clinical nurse specialists. * Oncology News *



Book Information
ISBN 9780198530756
Author Sara Booth
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 258g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 10mm