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Supportive Care of Children with Cancer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1326

Supportive Care of Children with Cancer

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-04-05
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

Three of every four children and adolescents with cancer can now be cured. However, physicians are using increasingly intensive treatment regimens. These treatments can expose patients to toxic chemotherapeutic agents, invasive surgical procedures, and radiation oncology interventions that risk disfigurement, neuropsychiatric damage, and life-threatening organ toxicity. These potentially dire consequences have mandated that advances in cancer treatment go hand in hand with supportive care measures that sustain patients through their therapeutic ordeal and allow each patient to achieve maximum quality of life. In this book, now in its third edition, the discipline of supportive care in pediat...

Improving Palliative Care for Cancer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 78

Improving Palliative Care for Cancer

It is innately human to comfort and provide care to those suffering from cancer, particularly those close to death. Yet what seems self-evident at an individual, personal level has, by and large, not guided policy at the level of institutions in this country. There is no argument that palliative care should be integrated into cancer care from diagnosis to death. But significant barriers-attitudinal, behavioral, economic, educational, and legal-still limit access to care for a large proportion of those dying from cancer, and in spite of tremendous scientific opportunities for medical progress against all the major symptoms associated with cancer and cancer death, public research institutions ...

When Children Die
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 712

When Children Die

The death of a child is a special sorrow. No matter the circumstances, a child's death is a life-altering experience. Except for the child who dies suddenly and without forewarning, physicians, nurses, and other medical personnel usually play a central role in the lives of children who die and their families. At best, these professionals will exemplify "medicine with a heart." At worst, families' encounters with the health care system will leave them with enduring painful memories, anger, and regrets. When Children Die examines what we know about the needs of these children and their families, the extent to which such needs areâ€"and are notâ€"being met, and what can be done to provide...

The Last Walk
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

The Last Walk

In a book that draws on both personal stories and research presents an in-depth exploration of the practical, medical and moral issues that trouble pet owners confronted with the decline and death of their companion animals.

Palliative Care for Infants, Children, and Adolescents
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 422

Palliative Care for Infants, Children, and Adolescents

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-06-24
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

"A case-based clinical handbook, [Palliative Care for Infants, Children, and Adolescents] combines a pragmatic approach to symptom management with a humanitarian approach emphasizing more abstract issues such as psychological support for both patient and caregiver." -- SciTech Book News "This practical guide provides professionals involved in pediatric end-of-life care with comprehensive information for hands-on care in a single volume." -- Home Health Care Nurse

Children's Palliative Care in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 448

Children's Palliative Care in Africa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Childen's palliative care has developed rapidly as a discipline, as health care professionals recognize that the principles of adult palliative care may not always be applicable to children at the end of life. The unique needs of dying children are particularly evident across Africa, where the scale of the problem is overwhelming, and the figures so enormous that they are barely comprehensible: over 400,000 children in Africa died from AIDS in 2003, and out of the 166,000 children a year diagnosed with cancer, 85% of these are in the developing world. Despite the enormous need, provision of children's palliative care in Africa is almost non-existent, with very few health workers trained and ...

Evidence-Based Pediatric Oncology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 578

Evidence-Based Pediatric Oncology

Using the available systematic reviews and Standard OptionsRecommendations (SORs) which are evidence-based treatmentrecommendations, Evidence-based Pediatric Oncology is aground breaking text on the management of childhood cancers.Covering all tumour types occuring in children and young adults, itprovides systematic reviews with recommendations for optimumtreatments for childhood cancer. Offering reviews and commentaries from leading internationallyrecognised paediatric oncologists, this fully revised secondedition now covers significant randomised controlled trails.

Transforming the Culture of Dying
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Transforming the Culture of Dying

Transforming the Culture of Dying assesses the establishment of the Project on Death in America and evaluates its the contributions to the development of the palliative care field and end of life care in American society.

Leukemia & Lymphoma R 6
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 592

Leukemia & Lymphoma R 6

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1997-12-01
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

An established resource in the field of hematological oncology. The series serves as excellent seminars, covering a wide range of current topics of interest and controversy.

Miracles We Have Seen
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 386

Miracles We Have Seen

This is a book of miracles—medical events witnessed by leading physicians for which there is no reasonable medical explanation, or, if there is, the explanation itself is extraordinary. These dramatic first-person essays detail spectacular serendipities, impossible cures, breathtaking resuscitations, extraordinary awakenings, and recovery from unimaginable disasters. Still other essays give voice to cases in which the physical aspects were less dramatic than the emotional aspects, yet miraculous and transformational for everyone involved. Positive impacts left in the wake of even the gravest of tragedies, profound triumphs of heart and spirit. Preeminent physicians in many specialties, inc...