The UK Association of Supportive Care in Cancer Handbook of Supportive Oncology [Paperback]

Palliative care  which focuses on advanced disease and end of life  has a special and important role within this broader and longer-term scope of supportive care in cancer. This handbook defines the new and emerging specialty and equips its workforce with the appropriate skill sets.

List of Contributors
Section I: Setting the Scene
1. Introduction

Section II: Clinical Challenges for Supportive Oncology
2. Managing Treatment and Cancer-Related Acute Issues - Acute Oncology
3. Pain and Symptom Management
A. Pain Assessment
B. Symptom Management
C. Cancer-Associated Thrombosis

Section III: Rehabilitation and Survivorship
4. Survivorship and Late Consequences of Treatment
A. Survivorship and Personalised Care
B. Late Consequences of Treatment

5. Patient Optimisation and Rehabilitation

Section IV: Special Populations
6. The Age Spectrum
A. Older People and Frailty
B. Teenagers and Young Adults

7. Intersectional Approaches to Supportive Oncology

Section V: Organizational Changes
8. Reviewing Relationships with Palliative and End-of-Life Care
9. The Future  How Do Service Models Need to Adapt?

Index

Richard Berman FRCP - Consultant in Supportive & Palliative Care, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Senior Lecturer in Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, UK

Ben Heyworth BA - Survivorship Network Manager, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK

Ashique Ahamed MRCP - Consultant in Supportive & l#)