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Nutrition and the Cancer Patient

Nutrition and the Cancer Patient

9780199550197
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Nutrition, appetite, and involuntary weight loss are issues that affect a large number of cancer patients and cancer survivors. Aspects such as symptom management, behavioural modification, exercise and medication are all important aspects of cancer care, but nutritional issues at the end of life can be accompanied by contentious ethical factors as well as religious and cultural influences that need to be addressed by health professionals. This book enables physicians, nurses andalso dieticians to better discuss these complex issues with patients and their families.This comprehensive reference book provides both background information and practical, clinical advice for managing the cancer patient at all stages of their disease trajectory. It includes information that relates to patients who are continuing to receive disease-specific therapy, the cancer survivor, as well as patients with advanced or recurrent cancer receiving palliative care. Basic principles such as epidemiology and physiology set the scene, leading into the cachexia/anorexia syndrome, treatment options, nutritional counselling, enteral and parenteral nutrition, complementary/alternative therapies, exercise, clinical outcomes measures in each of the clinical groups, and focus on special populations and their specific needs. Multidimensional, interdisciplinary clinical evaluation and treatment is emphasised, and ethical, religious, and cultural factors are alsoaddressed.Multidisciplinary in nature, this book draws on the experience of the editors work across the fields of oncology, palliative care, surgery, primary care, nursing, dietetics and nutritional science. It will prove invaluable to all general practitioners, internists, medical oncologists and surgeons, nurses, palliative care specialists and related professionals involved in the care of the cancer patient.
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OUP Oxford
83720
9780199550197
9780199550197

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Publication date
2010
Issue number
1
Cover
hard cover
Pages count
534
Dimensions (mm)
175 x 249
Weight (g)
1204
  • 1 - Basic principles; Definitions and epidemiology; Metabolism and physiology; The assessment of nutritional status; 2 - The cachexia/anorexia syndrome; The epidemiology of body weight and body weight loss and its relation to cancer; The mechanisms of primary cachexia; 3 - The treatment of primary cachexia; Challenges and opportunities in conducting clinical research in cancer cachexia; Appetite stimulants; Anabolic hormones; Immune modulators; Autonomic system modulators; Multimodality therapy; 4 - The treatment of secondary cachexia; Classification of cancer cachexia and secondary nutrition impact symptoms; Oral complications; Nausea and vomiting in advanced cancer; Early satiety; Disordered bowel function; Depression and fatigue; 5 - Nutritional counselling; Counselling by a dietitian; The multi-disciplinary approach to nutritional problems in patients with cancer; 6 - Artificial nutritional support; Nutritional support: an overview; Oral and enteral nutrition; Nutrition in advanced malignancy: parenteral nutrition, palliative surgery and gastrointestinal stents; 7 - Ethics, culture and spirituality; Ethics and medically assisted nutrition and hydration in cancer; Cultural and religious factors; 8 - Nutrition and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in cancer; Nutrition and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in cancer care; 9 - Exercise; Exercise therapy for persons diagnosed with cancer; 10 - Clinical groups; The cancer survivor; Nutritional management of patients receiving primary cancer therapy; Nutritional management of patients with recurrent, advanced or metastatic cancer; Patients at the end of life; 11 - Special opulations; Paediatric patients; Nutritional care of older people with cancer; Nutrition and comorbidities in patients with cancer; Patients in the developing world; The experience of involuntary weight loss and altered body image in patients with cancer anorexia-cachexia syndrome (CACS): Patient and family perspectives;
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