Oncology in primary care

Oncology in primary care / senior editors, Michal G. Rose [and others].

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...

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Other Authors: Rose, Michal G.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ©2013.
Series:Lippincott's primary care.
Subjects:
Tumors > Diagnosis.
Tumors > Treatment.
Primary health care > Methods.
Risk assessment.
risk assessment.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Primary health care
Risk assessment
Tumors > Diagnosis
Tumors > Treatment
Methods (Music)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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