Supportive Care of Children with Cancer: Current Therapy and Guidelines from the Children's Oncology Group
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 ed…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Altman, Arnold J. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8018-7909-8
- EAN: 9780801879098
- Produktnummer: 1501638
- Verlag: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 412 S.
- Masse: H21.7 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.9 cm 503 g
- Auflage: 3. A.
- Gewicht: 503
- Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.
Über den Autor
Arnold J. Altman, M.D., is the Hartford Whalers Professor of Childhood Cancer at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Head, Division of Hematology-Oncology at Connecticut Childrens Medical Center. He is also the past chair of the Supportive Care Committee of the Children's Cancer Group.
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