Practice of Palliative Care and Supportive Oncology

A new edition of this interdisciplinary book on supportive oncology and palliative care serving as a practical guide for management of the myriad symptoms and quality-of-life issues that occur in patients with cancer—including newly diagnosed patients, patients undergoing treatment, cancer survivors, and patients whose disease is no longer curable. This edition features new chapters on caregiver stress, hepatic failure, pulmonary failure, research issues in palliative care, and beginning a palliative care program.