ABC of cancer care / [edited by] Carlo Palmieri, Esther Bird, Richard Simcock. - Chichester, West Sussex, UK : John Wiley & Sons Inc./BMJ Books, 2013 - xiii, 86 pages : illustrations. - ABC series .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Multidisciplinary care / Richard Simcock -- Cancer imaging / Guy Burkill and Adrian Lim -- Surgery / Daniel Richard Leff and Richard Simcock -- Surgery for metastatic disease / Timothy W.R. Briggs, Elizabeth J. Gillott, Long Jiao and Lewis W. Thorne -- Chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer / Catherine Harper-Wynne and Cathy Kelly -- Toxicity of chemotherapy / Sacha Howell, Alison Jones, and Colin James -- Radiotherapy / Alastair Thompson and Mark Beresford -- Toxicity of radiotherapy / Russell Burcombe, Jonathan Hicks, and Richard Simcock -- Endocrine therapy / Carlo Palmieri, Matt Flook, and Duncan Gilbert -- Biological and targeted therapies / Ruth E. Board Jennifer W. Pang, Carlo Palmieri and Suzy Cleator -- Trials in cancer care / Evandro de Azambuja, David Cameron, and Janet Brown -- Oncological emergencies / Mohammed Rizwanullah and Thomas E. Newsom-Davis -- Cancer in the elderly / Alistair Ring and Juliet Wright -- Nutrition and cancer care / Mhairi Donald -- Complementary and alternative therapies / Richard Simcock and Sarah Cavilla / -- Nursing care, advocacy, and support / Clare Sullivan, Beverley Longhurst, Amelia Cook and Elizabeth Bowman -- Cancer survivorship / Esther Bird, Amy Guppy, and Carlo Palmieri.

9780470674406 (pbk.)


Neoplasms--Neoplasms

QZ 266 / .A23 2013