Churchill's Pocketbook of Oncology
By- Lester Barr, ChM, FRCS, Cousultant Surgeon, University Hospitals of South Manchester, and Christie Hospital, Manchester, UK
- Richard Cowan, MD, MRCP, FRCR, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Christie Hospital, Manchester, UK
- Marianne Nicolson, MD, FRCP, Consultant Medical Oncologist, Aberdeen Royal Hosptials Trust, Aberdeen, UK
A pocket handbook on the management and treatment of cancer, written in a style and at a level suitable for junior doctors and trainees (SHOs, Registrars), medical students and allied health professions. All the information will be carefully checked by an international panel of advisers to ensure that the treatment described reflects common clinical practice and (where available) agreed guidelines. Also includes sections on oncological emergencies, common patient problems and screening.
Audience
Junior doctors and medical students, trainees in oncology, family physicians, and professionals allied to medicine - nursing and therapeutic radiography.
Paperback, 240 Pages
Published: September 2004
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
ISBN: 978-0-443-07239-0
Contents
Section 1 - Managing a Patient with Cancer
1. Principles of surgery
2. Principles of radiotherapy
3. Principles of chemotherapy
4. Palliative care
5. Screening
6. Consent to treatment
7. Complementary therapy
8. Patient support groups and information
Section 2 - Managing Specific Tumours
9. GI
10. Breast
11. Urology
12. Gynaecology
13. Head and neck
14. Skin
15. Lung
16. CNS
17. Bone
18. Soft tissue sarcomas
19. Paediatrics - solid tumours
20. Haematology - malignancy
21. Cancer of unknown primary site
22. AIDS-related cancer
Section 3 - Problems in practice
23. Alopecia
24. Ascites
25. Carcinoid syndrome
26. Cardiomyopathy
27. Constipation
28. Diarrhoea
29. Haemorrhagic cystitis
30. Infertility and contraception
31. Mucositis
32. Nausea and vomiting
33. Neuropathy
34. Nutrition
35. Opportunistic infections
36. Pain
37. Pleural effusion
38. Radiation enteritis
39. Secondary malignancy
40. Syndrome of inappropriate ADH
41. Stoma management
42. Thromobcytopenia
43. Venous access
Section 4 - Oncological Emergencies
44. Should you resuscitate?
45. Septic shock
46. Bleeding
47. Cardiac tamponade
48. Stridor
49. Superior vena cava obstruction
50. Spinal cord compression
51. Raised intracranial pressure
52. Pulmonary embolus
53. Acute abdomen
54. GI obstruction
55. GI perforation
56. Hypercalcaemia
57. Pathological fracture
58. Acute confusional states
59. Hyperkalaemia
60. Ureteric obstruction
61. Graft v. host disease
Appendices:
Commonly used chemotherapy drugs
WHO performance scale
Common toxicity criteria
Criteria of response
Surface area nomogram
Dermatomal anatomy
Drug development and clinical trials
Incidence and risk
Names and addresses of patient support groups
Web sites - clinical information; clinical trials
Molecular biology and therapy
