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Nutrition and the Cancer Patient
Contributor(s): Del Fabbro, Egidio (Editor), Bruera, Eduardo (Editor), Demark-Wahnefried, Wendy (Editor)
ISBN: 0199550190     ISBN-13: 9780199550197
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE:   $166.25  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: September 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Terminal Care
- Medical | Oncology - General
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General
Dewey: 616.994
LCCN: 2011293927
Physical Information: 1.13" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (2.30 lbs) 534 pages
 
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Nutrition, appetite, and involuntary weight loss are issues that affect a large number of cancer patients and cancer survivors. Aspects such as symptom management, behavioural modification, exercise and medication are all important aspects of cancer care, but nutritional issues at the end of
life can be accompanied by contentious ethical factors as well as religious and cultural influences that need to be addressed by health professionals. This book enables physicians, nurses and also dieticians to better discuss these complex issues with patients and their families.

This comprehensive reference book provides both background information and practical, clinical advice for managing the cancer patient at all stages of their disease trajectory. It includes information that relates to patients who are continuing to receive disease-specific therapy, the cancer
survivor, as well as patients with advanced or recurrent cancer receiving palliative care.

Basic principles such as epidemiology and physiology set the scene, leading into the cachexia/anorexia syndrome, treatment options, nutritional counselling, enteral and parenteral nutrition, complementary/alternative therapies, exercise, clinical outcomes measures in each of the clinical groups, and
focus on special populations and their specific needs. Multidimensional, interdisciplinary clinical evaluation and treatment is emphasised, and ethical, religious, and cultural factors are also addressed.

Multidisciplinary in nature, this book draws on the experience of the editors' work across the fields of oncology, palliative care, surgery, primary care, nursing, dietetics and nutritional science. It will prove invaluable to all general practitioners, internists, medical oncologists and surgeons,
nurses, palliative care specialists and related professionals involved in the care of the cancer patient.