Internal medicine issues in palliative cancer care / edited by David Hui, Eduardo Bruera.

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computer

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online resource

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9780199330324
0199330328

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Internal medicine issues in palliative cancer care.DDC classification:

616.99/4029 23

LOC classification:

RC271.P33 I58 2014eb

NLM classification:

QZ 266

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Contents:

Pulmonary -- Cardiovascular -- Nephrology and metabolic abnormalities -- Gastrointestinal -- Hematological disorders -- Infections -- Endocrine -- Rheumatology -- Neuro-psychiatric.

Summary: "Patients with advanced cancer may develop a number of clinical complications related to tumor progression or a variety of aggressive treatments. The majority of these patients are elderly, often with multiple co-morbidities that require appropriate assessment and management. In the palliative stage of their disease, patients undergo a progressive transition from active acute care to community-based hospice care. This transition requires modification in the diagnostic tests, monitoring procedures and pharmacological treatments to adjust them to the palliative and short-term nature of the care. Internal Medicine Issues in Palliative Cancer Care looks at internal medicine through a prognosis-based framework and provides a practical approach to maximizing comfort and quality of life while minimizing aggressive investigations and therapies for patients with life-limiting disease. Forty-six common internal medicine conditions are organized into nine clinical categories: pulmonary, cardiovascular, renal and metabolic, gastrointestinal, hematologic, infectious, endocrine, rheumatologic, and neuro-psychiatric"--Publisher's description

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pulmonary -- Cardiovascular -- Nephrology and metabolic abnormalities -- Gastrointestinal -- Hematological disorders -- Infections -- Endocrine -- Rheumatology -- Neuro-psychiatric.

"Patients with advanced cancer may develop a number of clinical complications related to tumor progression or a variety of aggressive treatments. The majority of these patients are elderly, often with multiple co-morbidities that require appropriate assessment and management. In the palliative stage of their disease, patients undergo a progressive transition from active acute care to community-based hospice care. This transition requires modification in the diagnostic tests, monitoring procedures and pharmacological treatments to adjust them to the palliative and short-term nature of the care. Internal Medicine Issues in Palliative Cancer Care looks at internal medicine through a prognosis-based framework and provides a practical approach to maximizing comfort and quality of life while minimizing aggressive investigations and therapies for patients with life-limiting disease. Forty-six common internal medicine conditions are organized into nine clinical categories: pulmonary, cardiovascular, renal and metabolic, gastrointestinal, hematologic, infectious, endocrine, rheumatologic, and neuro-psychiatric"--Publisher's description

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