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Nutrition And The Cancer Patient by Egidio Del Fabbro, Eduardo Bruera, Wendy Demark-wahnefried, Tim Bowling, Jane B. Hopkinson, Vickie E. Baracos is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Nutrition And The Cancer Patient about?

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 and also 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, clin

Author

Egidio Del Fabbro, Eduardo Bruera, Wendy Demark-wahnefried, Tim Bowling, Jane B. Hopkinson, Vickie E. Baracos

Publisher

Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199550197

Subjects

Medical, Medicine