"What does supportive care do that palliative care doesn't already do? Answering that question forms part of the rationale behind this text. Supportive care should encompass a wide range of diverse disciplines and practices, ranging from symptom management, to rehabilitation, to social, spiritual, and psychological support, patient information, and complementary therapies. Supportive care is, therefore, delivered across the whole cancer experience from diagnosis through treatment to post-treatment care, and so necessitates the involvement of most clinical specialties and many non-clinical services. Palliative care - which focuses on advanced disease and end of life - has a special and important role within this broader and longer-term scope of supportivecare in cancer. This handbook defines the new and emerging specialty and equips its workforce with the appropriate skill sets"--
What does supportive oncology do that palliative care doesnt already do? Answering that question forms part of the rationale behind this text. Supportive oncology is delivered across the whole cancer experience from diagnosis through treatment to post-treatment care, and so necessitates the involvement of most clinical specialties and many non-clinical services. Palliative care which focuses on advanced disease and end of life has a special and important role within this broader and longer-term scope of supportive care in cancer.
This handbook defines the new and emerging specialty of supportive oncology and equips the workforce with the appropriate skill sets:
- Providing personalized and targeted treatments consistent with the stage of disease
- A focus on preservation and improvement in quality of life
- Affecting survival and the quality of that survival
- Permitting the use of the most effective anti-cancer agents
- Assisting in accurate diagnosis and management
Palliative care which focuses on advanced disease and end of life has a special and important role within this broader and longer-term scope of supportive care in cancer. This handbook defines the new and emerging specialty and equips its workforce with the appropriate skill sets.
List of Contributors
Section I: Setting the Scene
1. Introduction
Section II: Clinical Challenges for Supportive Oncology
2. Managing Treatment and Cancer-Related Acute Issues - Acute Oncology
3. Pain and Symptom Management
A. Pain Assessment
B. Symptom Management
C. Cancer-Associated Thrombosis
Section III: Rehabilitation and Survivorship
4. Survivorship and Late Consequences of Treatment
A. Survivorship and Personalised Care
B. Late Consequences of Treatment
5. Patient Optimisation and Rehabilitation
Section IV: Special Populations
6. The Age Spectrum
A. Older People and Frailty
B. Teenagers and Young Adults
7. Intersectional Approaches to Supportive Oncology
Section V: Organizational Changes
8. Reviewing Relationships with Palliative and End-of-Life Care
9. The Future How Do Service Models Need to Adapt?
Index
Richard Berman FRCP - Consultant in Supportive & Palliative Care, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Senior Lecturer in Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, UK
Ben Heyworth BA - Survivorship Network Manager, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK
Ashique Ahamed MRCP - Consultant in Supportive & Palliative Care, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust. Manchester, UK
