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 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?
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