Cancer: Pain and Symptom Management - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1634838645 ISBN 13 : 9781634838641

Editeur : Nova Science Publishers Inc, 2015

Synopsis

Many cancer patients experience a variety of distressing symptoms, adversely affecting their functional status and quality of life (QOL). Subjective symptoms such as pain, fatigue and depression are common among cancer patients, with approximately 33-55% of cancer patients experiencing pain during the course of their illness. Previous literature commonly examined a single symptom and its effect on patients' functional status and QOL, but patients often experience multiple symptoms simultaneously. Since individual symptoms are often associated with decreased QOL, the assumption that symptom clusters might have a greater effect on QOL is logical. The coexistence of symptoms provides an insight into the importance of assessing clusters of symptoms rather than focusing on individual symptoms. Although the focus of single symptoms has advanced the understanding of those particular symptoms, it may not be as helpful to health care professionals in guiding practice when patients present several concurrent symptoms. It is important for clinicians to address and ultimately treat all concurrent symptoms. Symptom cluster research will help our understanding and treatment of multiple symptoms.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Breanne Lechner, MD(C) is a clinical research assistant in the Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program at the Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada and also a medical student at the University of Toronto. She was the recipient of the J Frank Brookfield Scholarship from the University of Waterloo in 2012 for excellence in biology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nova Science Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1634838645
• ISBN 13: 9781634838641
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 100
• Éditeur: Lechner MD Breanne, Chow BMSc Ronald, Pulenzas Natalie, Popovic Marko, Zhang Na, Zhang Xiaojing, Chow Edward, Merrick Joav
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible