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Oncology in primary care /
For primary care clinicians who need practical and concise information on caring for their patients with cancer. Written in an easy-to-browse format, chapters cover risk factors, prevention, screening, prognosis, and surveillance strategies.valuable information that helps primary care clinicians adv...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,
©2013.
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| Colección: | Lippincott's primary care.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Section I. Cancer Prevention and Care
- The Evolving Role of Primary Care: The role of the primary care clinician in cancer prevention and care
- The risk of cancer in the United States and globally: implications for primary care clinicians
- Section II. Cancer Risk Factors and Prevention: Genetic risk and the management of the high-risk individual
- Medical approaches to cancer prevention
- Smoking
- Infections and inflammation
- Chemicals and radiation
- Obesity and physical activity
- Nutrition
- Section III. Cancer Screening: Principles of cancer screening
- Breast cancer screening
- Screening for gynecologic malignancies
- Colorectal cancer screening
- Screening for hepatocellular carcinoma
- Barrett's esophagus
- Primary and secondary prevention of skin malignancies
- Prostate cancer screening
- Lung cancer screening
- Section IV. Clinical Presentation of Cancer: Does my patient have cancer? Presenting symptoms
- Paraneoplastic syndromes
- Incidentally found cancers
- Principles of cancer diagnosis and staging
- Section V. Management and Treatment of the Patient with Cancer: Oncologic emergencies
- Pain management
- Nausea and vomiting
- Diarrhea and constipation
- Shortness of breath and pleural effusion
- Fatigue, depression, and anxiety
- Cancer-associated anorexia-cachexia syndrome
- Mucositis
- Anemia, leukopenia, and thrombocytopenia
- Hypercoagulable states associated with cancer
- The perioperative management of the patient with cancer
- Communication with patients with cancer
- Principles of hospice and palliative care
- Rehabilitation in patients with cancer
- Priciples of antineoplastic therapy
- Section VI. Cancer Survivorship: Cancer survivors, oncologists, and primary care clinicians
- Cardiac and pulmonary sequelae of cancer and its treatment
- Bone health
- Fertility
- Sexual dysfunction
- Endocrinopathies
- Neurocognitive effects of cancer and its therapy
- Survivors of childhood cancer
- Survivors of hematopoietic cell transplantation
- Psychosocial sequelae of cancer
- Section VII. Cancers of Individual Sites: Head and neck cancer
- Lung cancer, mesothelioma, thymoma
- Gastric and esophageal cancer
- Cancer of the pancreas and hepatobiliary tracts
- Colorectal cancer
- Anal cancer
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
- Prostate cancer
- Bladder cancer
- Kidney cancer
- Cancers of the testicle, urethra, and penis
- Breast cancer
- Gynecologic cancers
- Skin cancers
- Lymphoma
- Plasma cell disorders
- Acute leukemias and myelodysplasia
- Myeloproliferative neoplasms
- Soft tissue and bone sarcomas
- Cancers of the nervous system
- Endocrine cancers
- Cancer of unknown primary
- HIV and other immunosuppression-related malignancies
- Common childhood cancers
- Glossary: Common cancer-related terms
- Appendix: Useful internet and community resources for cancer care.