Comprehensive Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with Cancer

The Comprehensive Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with Cancer, fourth edition, provides detailed information and advice for alleviating the suffering of cancer patients and their loved ones, drawing on the work of experts and addressing the informational needs of a broader market of health care providers. It features three new chapters, guidelines about advance care planning, complex family dynamics, partnering with interpreters, special considerations for LGBTQ+ patients, and nonpharmacologic management of pain and other symptoms.

Format: Hardback
Length: 632 pages
Publication date: 15 November 2022
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

For over two decades, this guide has been the trusted resource for busy practicing oncology and palliative care clinicians. The fourth edition, now titled Comprehensive Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with Cancer, offers physicians, advanced practice clinicians, and patients and their families with comprehensive information and advice for alleviating the suffering of cancer patients and their loved ones. Drawing on the expertise of experts who have pioneered innovative approaches to symptom management and palliative care, as well as lessons learned during her decades as a teacher and clinician, Dr. Janet L. Abrahm and her coauthors illustrate how to help patients and families understand their prognosis, communicate their care preferences, and minimize their distress. This edition reflects significant updates in the field while addressing the informational needs of a broader market of healthcare providers, including social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, bereavement counselors, and chaplains. This new edition features three new chapters—Spiritual Care in Palliative Care, Psychological Considerations, and Bereavement—as well as specific guidelines about advance care planning at all phases of cancer, understanding complex family dynamics and communication challenges, partnering with interpreters in the care of patients and family members with limited English-language proficiency, special considerations to take into account for LGBTQ+ patients and their loved ones, caring for patients who have a serious mental illness along with a cancer diagnosis, and nonpharmacologic management of pain and other symptoms.

Weight: 1406g
Dimension: 254 x 178 x 39 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781421443980
Edition number: fourth edition