Oncology in primary care

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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…

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Title Statements

Full title :Oncology in primary care / senior editors, Michal G. Rose [and others].

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Publication Date:©2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
Place of Publication:Philadelphia
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2013.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxii, 425 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781469830544, 146983054X, 1469873990, 9781469873992
oclc:on1020319353
LC Classification:RC261.A1
Dewey Decimal:616.99/4

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 an…

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Évaluation du risque HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine MEDICAL -- Diseases MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine Methods (Music) Neoplasms -- diagnosis Neoplasms -- therapy Primary Health Care Primary Health Care -- methods risk assessment Soins de santé primaires -- Méthodes Tumeurs -- Traitement Tumors -- Diagnosis Tumors -- Treatment