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Oncology in Primary Care is designed to help providers counsel and manage their patients with cancer. It emphasizes prognosis, long-term effects of therapy, survivorship, and surveillance to help the provider advise patients regarding therapeutic decisions and end-of-life decisions.With an appealing, easy to browse format, this text is rich with tables and graphs to facilitate access and provide quick answers to questions commonly encountered in the primary care setting. The text is broken into the following seven sections: Provider's role in cancer prevention and care; Risk factors for cancer and cancer prevention; Comprehensive review of screening; Different patient case presentation, diagnosis and staging; Management and treatment of cancer patients; Cancer survivorship; Cancer of individual sites. Plus, there is a glossary of common cancer-related terms and an annotated list of internet and community resources for cancer care.Accompanying the text is a free online companion website that provides access to the fully searchable text and images.Features Include:• First book intended specifically for the primary care provider• Jointly edited by an Oncologist and a practicing primary care doctor, thus ensuring the relevance of its contents to generalists• Provides rapid access to essential information needed to assist in the treatment of complications of cancer therapy• Emphasizes prognosis, long-term effects of therapy, survivorship, and surveillance – all vitally important to the primary care provider to appropriately manage co-morbid conditions and to advise patients regarding therapeutic decisions and end-of-life decisions• Includes access to full text and image bank online |
