The UK Association of Supportive Care in Cancer Handbook of Supportive Oncology

Description

What does supportive oncology do that palliative care doesn?

€™t 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

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Section I: Setting the Scene

Section II: Clinical Challenges for Supportive Oncology

Section III: Rehabilitation and Survivorship

Section IV: Special Populations

Section V: Organizational Changes

Index.