Oncology in primary care [E-Book]

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text in English.

For primary care clinicians who need practical and concise information on caring for their patients with cancer. Written in an easy-to-browse format, chapters cover risk factors, prevention, screening, prognosis, and surveillance strategies.valuable information that helps primary care clinicians advise their patients regarding therapeutic and end-of-life decisions and become true partners in the care of their patients with cancer. Each chapter also includes an abundance of figures and tables to help clinicians find quick answers to questions commonly encountered in the primary care setting.

Section I. Cancer Prevention and Care -- The Evolving Role of Primary Care: The role of the primary care clinician in cancer prevention and care -- The risk of cancer in the United States and globally: implications for primary care clinicians -- Section II. Cancer Risk Factors and Prevention: Genetic risk and the management of the high-risk individual -- Medical approaches to cancer prevention -- Smoking -- Infections and inflammation -- Chemicals and radiation -- Obesity and physical activity -- Nutrition -- Section III. Cancer Screening: Principles of cancer screening -- Breast cancer screening -- Screening for gynecologic malignancies -- Colorectal cancer screening -- Screening for hepatocellular carcinoma -- Barrett's esophagus -- Primary and secondary prevention of skin malignancies -- Prostate cancer screening -- Lung cancer screening -- Section IV. Clinical Presentation of Cancer: Does my patient have cancer? Presenting symptoms -- Paraneoplastic syndromes -- Incidentally found cancers -- Principles of cancer diagnosis and staging -- Section V. Management and Treatment of the Patient with Cancer: Oncologic emergencies -- Pain management -- Nausea and vomiting -- Diarrhea and constipation -- Shortness of breath and pleural effusion -- Fatigue, depression, and anxiety -- Cancer-associated anorexia-cachexia syndrome -- Mucositis -- Anemia, leukopenia, and thrombocytopenia -- Hypercoagulable states associated with cancer -- The perioperative management of the patient with cancer -- Communication with patients with cancer -- Principles of hospice and palliative care -- Rehabilitation in patients with cancer -- Priciples of antineoplastic therapy -- Section VI. Cancer Survivorship: Cancer survivors, oncologists, and primary care clinicians -- Cardiac and pulmonary sequelae of cancer and its treatment -- Bone health -- Fertility -- Sexual dysfunction -- Endocrinopathies -- Neurocognitive effects of cancer and its therapy -- Survivors of childhood cancer -- Survivors of hematopoietic cell transplantation -- Psychosocial sequelae of cancer -- Section VII. Cancers of Individual Sites: Head and neck cancer -- Lung cancer, mesothelioma, thymoma -- Gastric and esophageal cancer -- Cancer of the pancreas and hepatobiliary tracts -- Colorectal cancer -- Anal cancer -- Hepatocellular carcinoma -- Prostate cancer -- Bladder cancer -- Kidney cancer -- Cancers of the testicle, urethra, and penis -- Breast cancer -- Gynecologic cancers -- Skin cancers -- Lymphoma -- Plasma cell disorders -- Acute leukemias and myelodysplasia -- Myeloproliferative neoplasms -- Soft tissue and bone sarcomas -- Cancers of the nervous system -- Endocrine cancers -- Cancer of unknown primary -- HIV and other immunosuppression-related malignancies -- Common childhood cancers -- Glossary: Common cancer-related terms -- Appendix: Useful internet and community resources for cancer care.

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