Oncology

Pocket sized hospice and palliative care handbook recently updated and released for those providing end of life care and interfacing with the management of advanced chronic diseases. Includes detailled assessment tool, treatment guidelines, tables and scales for pain management and other distressing symptoms. A practical educational tool for nurses in hospice, oncology, long term care and inpatient palliative care. Includes guidelines for spiritual, psychosocial and dignity conserving interventions for patients and their families facing a terminal illness!

WHO Classification of Tumours of Haematopoietic and Lymphoid Tissue is the third volume in the new WHO series on histological and genetic typing of human tumors. This authoritative, concise reference book covers the entire range of leukaemias and lymphomas. It provides an international standard for oncologists and pathologists and will serve as an indispensable guide for use in the design of studies monitoring response to therapy and clinical outcome. Diagnostic criteria, pathological features, and associated genetic alterations are described in a strictly disease-oriented manner. Sections on all recognized neoplasms and their variants include new ICD-O codes, incidence, age and sex distribution, location, clinical signs and symptoms, pathology, genetics, and predictive factors.

The book, prepared by 130 authors from 22 countries, contains more than 1,000 color photographs, numerous magnetic resonance and ultrasound images, CT scans, charts, and 2,500 references.

This book is in the series commonly referred to as the "Blue Book" series.
Who Classification of Tumors of Haematopoietic and Lymphoid Tissue

Contributors:Dr Cem Akin, Dr Loannis Anagnostopoulos, Dr Katsuyuki Aozasa, Dr Daniel A. Arber, Dr Michele Baccarani, Dr Barbara J. Bain, Dr Giovanni Barosi, Dr Lrith Baumann, Dr Marie-Christine Bene, Dr Daniel Benharroch, Dr John M. Bennett, Dr Francoise Berger, Dr Emillo Berti, Dr Gunnar Birgegard, Dr Clara D. Bloomfield, Dr Bettina Borisch, Dr Michael J. Borowitz, Dr Richard D. Brunning, Dr Walter Burgdorf, Dr Elias Campo, Dr Daniel Catovsky, Dr Lorenzo Cerroni, Dr Ethel Cesarman, Dr Amv Chadburn, Dr John K.C. Chan, Dr Wing Chung Chan, Dr Andreas Chott, Dr Robert W. Coupland, Dr Daphne De Jong, Dr Christiane De Wolf-Peeters, Dr Martina Deckert, Dr Jan Delabie, Dr Georges Delsol, Dr Ahmet Dogan, Dr Lyn M. Duncan, Dr Kojo S.J. Elenitoba-Johnson, Dr Luis Escribano, Dr Fabio Facchetti, Dr Brunangelo Falini, Dr Judith A. Ferry, Dr Christopher D.M. Fletcher, Dr Katheryn Foucar, Dr Randy D. Gascoyne, Dr Kevin C. Gatter, Dr Norbert Gattermann, Dr Phillippe Gaulard, Dr Ulrich Germing, Dr D. Gary Gilliland, Dr Heinz Gisslinger, Dr Peter L. Greenberg, Dr Thomas M. Grogan, Dr. Karen L. Grogg, Dr Margarita Guenova, Dr Nancy Lee Harris, Dr Robert Paul Hasserjian, Dr Eva Hellstrom-Lindberg, Dr Hans-Peter Horny, Dr Peter G. Isaacson, Dr Elaine S. Jaffe, Dr Ronald Jaffe, Dr Daniel M. Jones, Dr Marshall E. Kadin, Dr Masahiro Kikuchi, Dr Hiroshi Kimura, Dr Marsha C. Kinney, Dr Phillip M. Kluin, Dr Young-Hyeh Ko, Dr Alla M. Kovrigina, Dr Laszlo Krenacs, Dr W. Michael Kuehl, Dr Jeffery L. Kutok, Dr Hans Michael Kvasnicka, Dr Robert A. Kyle, Dr Richard A. Larson, Dr Michelle M. Le Beau, Dr Lorenzo Leoncini, Dr Alan F. List, Dr Kenneth A. Maclennan, Dr William R. Macon, Dr David Y. Mason, Dr Estella Matutes, Dr Robert W. Mckenna, Dr Chris J.L.M. Meijer, Dr Junia V. Melo, Dr Dean D. Metcalfe, Dr Manuela Mollejo, Dr Peter Moller, Dr Emilli Montserrat, Dr William G. Morice, Dr Hans Konrad Muller-Hermelink, Drshigeo Nakamura, Dr Bharat N. Nathwani, Dr Charlotte M. Niemeyer, Dr Hiroko Ohgaki, Dr Kiochi Ohshima, Dr Mihaela Onciu, Dr Atillio Orazi, Dr German Ott, Dr Marco Paulli, Dr Suat-Cheng Peh, Dr Loann Peterson, Dr Tony Petrella, Dr Stefano A. Pileri, Dr Miguel A. Piris, Dr Stefania Pittaluga, Dr Maurillio Ponzoni, Dr Sibrand Poppema, Dr Anna Porwit, Dr Leticia Quintanilla-Martinez, Dr Elisabeth Ralfiaker, Dr Martine Raphael, Dr Jonathan Said, Dr Christian A. Sander, Dr Masao Seto, Dr Kevin Shannon, Dr Bruce R. Smoller, Dr Ivy Sng, Dr Dominic Spagnolo, Dr Harald Stein, Dr Christer Sundstrom, Dr Steven H. Swerdlow, Dr Ayalew Tefferi, Dr Catherine Thieblemont, Dr Jurgen Thiele, Dr Peter Valent, Dr J.H. Van Krieken, Dr James W. Vardiman, Dr Beatrice Vergier, Dr Neus Villamor, Dr Reinhard Von Wasielewski, Dr Roger A. Warnke, Dr Steven A. Webber, Dr Dennis D. Weisenburger, Dr Lawrence M. Weiss, Dr Sean J. Whittaker, Dr Rein Willemze, Dr Wyndham H. Wilson, Dr Tadashi Yoshino

Thorough coverage of general nursing duties, including analysis and assessment techniques. Includes detailed tables and diagrams clearly labeled and organized for quick reference. Includes detailed information and diagrams on: · lung sounds · normal EKG patterns · cardiac enzymes · adventitious lung sounds · arterial blood gas analysis · grading heart murmers & heart sounds · cranial nerves · insulin types & action times · symptom analysis · Glasgow Coma Scale · pressure sore staging · common medical abbreviations · intramuscular injection sites · calculating I.V. drip rates & I.V. flow rates · 5 p's of circulatory · checks, edema, pulses & dosage cups · household/apothecary/metric equivalents · conversion factors · complete blood count · four primary assessment techniques · basic head-to-toe assessment · serum electrolytes · coagulation studies · odor assessment

ONE-ON-ONE WITH 15 CANCER DOCTORS:

If you traveled the world for appointments with fifteen cancer doctors, you would discover many of the cutting-edge treatments used to heal the body from cancer. You would also spend thousands of dollars on hotels, plane tickets, and medical appointment fees-not to mention the time that it would take to embark on such a journey.

Even if you had the time and money to travel, would the physicians have enough time to answer all of your questions? Would you even know which questions to ask?

In this long-awaited book, health care journalist Connie Strasheim has done all the work for you. She conducted intensive interviews with fifteen highly regarded doctors who specialize in cancer treatment, asking them thoughtful, important questions, and then spent months compiling their information into organized, user-friendly chapters that contain the core principles upon which they base their approach to healing cancer. The practitioners interviewed are medical, osteopathic and naturopathic doctors, trained in a variety of integrative approaches to cancer treatment.

All aspects of treatment are covered, from anti-neoplastic (anti-cancer) remedies and immune system support, to dietary and lifestyle choices that result in the best outcomes for patients. The book also offers unique insights into healing, such as the pros and cons of different treatments and how to intelligently use chemotherapy. It discusses patient and practitioner challenges to healing, factors that affect healing, treatment outcomes and how to effectively combine multiple medical strategies to obtain the best results. Finally, it offers helpful insights to the friends and families of those coping with cancer. Cancer treatment is complex and controversial, and this book puts the treatment information you need in the palm of your hand.

PHYSICIAN INTERVIEWEES:

• Stanislaw Burzynski, MD, PhD, Houston, Texas
• Robert Zieve, MD, Prescott, Arizona
• Nicholas Gonzalez, MD, New York, New York
• Finn Scott Anderson, MD, Humlebæk, Denmark
• Juergen Winkler, MD, Oceanside, California
• Dr. Rivera-Celaya, MD and his assistant Steven Hines, Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico
• Colleen Huber, NMD, Tempe, Arizona
• Robert Eslinger, DO, Reno, Nevada
• Dr. Dayton, DO, Sunny Isles Beach, Florida
• Dr. Reis, MD, Bad Mergentheim, Germany
• Julian Kenyon, MD, London, England
• Constantine Kotsanis, MD, Grapevine, Texas
• Joe Brown, ND, Tempe, Arizona
• Keith Scott-Mumby, MD, Reno, Nevada
• Chad Aschtgen, ND, Seattle, Washington.

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS:

These are the questions we asked our doctors in order to discover their cancer treatment strategies:

1. What is cancer? What causes it?
2. What is your treatment approach? How effective is it for different types and stages of cancer?
3. What are your treatment outcomes and can you provide statistics on your success for treating late-stage cancers?
4. What are your dietary recommendations for those with cancer?
5. What lifestyle recommendations do you suggest for people with cancer?
6. Describe the role of emotional trauma/emotions in healing from cancer. Do you recommend that your patients do any type of spiritual/psychological therapies as part of their healing process? How integral are these to their healing?
7. Do you recommend detoxification therapies to your patients? If so, which ones?
8. What supportive treatments do you recommend, besides those described in your main protocol? Do you believe that supporting the hormones, for example, should be an important part of treatment?
9. Are there any treatments, either within conventional or natural medicine, which are dangerous and/or ineffective?
10. How can friends and family support their loved ones with cancer?
11. What do you wish that more people with cancer knew when seeking out treatments?
12. How does medical politics influence the availability of effective treatments?
13. What else do you want readers to know about your work as a cancer practitioner?
14. What factors influence healing?
15. What are your final words of wisdom for cancer patients?

Published in collaboration with the ONS, this Study Guide is a must-have for those who are taking the certification exam. The chapters parallel those presented in the Core Curriculum for Oncology Nursing, 4e. The number of questions in each chapter will correspond with the percentage of questions on that particular topic included in the certification exam. Answers and rationales for correct and incorrect responses are listed at the end of each chapter. The book also includes an updated bibliography for each subject.

"This textbook has...introduced concepts and methods of education which [help] to move palliative nursing forward as an evidenced based practice of whole person care."

-- Betty Ferrell, PhD, FAAN
Research Scientist (From the Foreword)

"In this comprehensive textbook on palliative care nursing, editors Marianne Matzo and Deborah Witt Sherman succeed in bringing together the heart of nursing and the true meaning of palliative care with the most current evidence based practice."

--GeriPal

Palliative care is a philosophy of caregiving that integrates disease modification with supportive, compassionate therapies for patients at the end of life. Palliative care nurses are responsible for alleviating pain and other physical symptoms-along with satisfying the emotional, social, cultural, and spiritual needs of patients who are facing life-threatening illness.

This third edition of Palliative Care Nursing provides more comprehensive newly updated content, knowledge, attitudes, skills, and cutting-edge teaching and learning strategies to achieve the AACN End-of-Life nursing competencies providing a lifespan approach. Now in its third edition, this book continues to emphasize the value of complementary, holistic modalities in promoting health, wholeness, and wellness, even as death approaches.

Key topics discussed:

• Ethical aspects of palliative care
• Legal aspects of end-of-life decision-making
• Loss, suffering, grief, and bereavement on the part of patients and their families
• Symptom-specific nursing management of pain, anxiety, depression, fatigue, malnutrition, and dehydration-all common to palliative care
• How to communicate with the seriously ill and dying patients, their families, and their health care providers
• Disease-specific aspects of palliative care for those battling cancer, heart disease, lung disease, HIV/AIDS, end-stage renal and liver disease, neurological, and other disorders

Published in collaboration with the ONS, this text is the definitive source for concepts and practices in oncology nursing and can be used for orientation of nurses to oncology, inservice and continuing education programs for practicing nurses, a basis for curriculum development in graduate programs, and as a review tool for certification. Based on the blueprint of the certification examination by the ONCC (Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation), the book is in outline format to help readers focus on the most important information. Instructor resources available; contact your sales representative for details.

• Covers the entire scope of the specialty ensuring comprehensive coverage
  
• Outline format helps the reader focus on the most important information
  
• Effective guide for teaching and learning for in-service, continuing education, and academic programs
  
• Powerful study tool for the ONCC certification exam
  
• Tables and figures illustrate complex concepts

* Entirely revised, updated, and expanded to reflect the current state of oncology nursing practice.
* Expanded pain management content.
* New content on nonpharmacologic interventions (e.g. heat massage, imagery).
* New content on alternative therapies.

Now in its third edition, this landmark textbook has become the key resource for all nurses working in the field of palliative care. Edited by renowned nursing experts Betty Ferrell and Nessa Coyle and written by a dynamic team of internationally known authorities in nursing and palliative medicine, the book contains 78 chapters which cover the gamut of the palliative nursing world. The volume's scope is broad to incorporate principles of care from the time of the initial diagnosis of a terminal disease to the end of a patient's life and beyond.

This text is distinctively developed to highlight the nurse's vital role as part of an integrated palliative care team. Various care settings are discussed including the hospital, ICU, home care, and hospice settings. While the book does provide some information on disease and pathophysiology when appropriate, the chapters focus on the practical aspects of nursing care, including symptom assessment, patient teaching, family support, psychosocial aspects of palliation, and spiritual care. All of the chapters have been completely updated and reorganized to incorporate new research and emerging models of care. This updated volume includes over 10 new chapters, including an extensively update section on international models of palliative care. In addition, there are many new ethics discussions covering a range of topics from pediatric palliative care to the withdrawal of life sustaining treatment. The text is authoritative and fully evidence-based, without ever losing sight of the humanity and sensitivity necessary in palliative nursing.

Palliative and End-of-Life Care, 2nd Edition provides clinicians with the guidelines and tools necessary to provide quality, evidenced-based care to patients with life-limiting illness. This text describes the care and management of patients with advanced disease throughout the disease trajectory, extending from diagnosis of advanced disease until death. Four units provide the general principles of palliative and end-of-life care, important concepts, advanced disease management, and clinical practice guidelines. Clinical practice guidelines offer in-depth discussions of the pathophysiology of 19 different symptoms, interventions for specific symptom management (including in-depth rationales), and suggestions for patient and family teaching.

• Defines dying as a normal, healthy process aided by the support of an interdisciplinary team.
• Provides in-depth pathophysiology, assessment, and intervention information based upon the disease trajectory.
• Highlights opportunities for patient and family teaching.
• Describes psychosocial issues experienced by patients and their families.
• Reviews uncomplicated and complicated grief and mourning, providing suggestions to help the family after a patient's death.
• Includes case studies at the end of chapters to reinforce key concepts of compassionate care.

• New chapters including Advance Care Planning, Ethical Issues, Spiritual Care Across Cultures, Pharmacology, Sleep, and Nutrition.
• Includes a new appendix on Assessment Tools and Resources for more comprehensive coverage of palliative and end-of-life care.