Supportive Care of Children with Cancer - 9780801879098

Johns Hopkins University Press

Supportive Care of Children with CancerCurrent Therapy and Guidelines from the Children's Oncology Group\nAuthor(s): Arnold J. Altman, Gregory H. Reaman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, United States\nImprint: Johns Hopkins University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801879098, 978-0801879098\nSynopsis\nThree of every four children and adolescents with cancer can now be cured. However, physicians are using increasingly intensive treatment regimens. These treatments can expose patients to toxic chemotherapeutic agents, invasive surgical procedures, and radiation oncology interventions that risk disfigurement, neuropsychiatric damage, and life-threatening organ toxicity. These potentially dire consequences have mandated that advances in cancer treatment go hand in hand with supportive care measures that sustain patients through their therapeutic ordeal and allow each patient to achieve maximum quality of life. In this book, now in its third edition, the discipline of s.