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Overview
The book addresses four modalities of treatment: chemotherapy, surgery, radiotherapy, and bone marrow transplant. Each of the four sections looks at specific areas including symptom management, complications, and late effects.
"...examines the depth of current practices and advances in the nursing of a child with cancer...addresses chemotherapy, surgery, radiotherapy, and bone marrow transplant...with information boxes throughout."
Synopsis
The book addresses four modalities of treatment: chemotherapy, surgery, radiotherapy, and bone marrow transplant. Each of the four sections looks at specific areas including symptom management, complications, and late effects.
Booknews
A guide and course text for clinical nurses who are either in or thinking of entering the specialty, answering a dearth of purely practical texts in Britain and the US to complement the more theoretical texts that follow a more medical model. The arrangement is by modality: chemotherapy, bone marrow transplant, general surgery, and radiotherapy. Each section begins with a review of the principles or background, discusses patient care during various stages and procedures, and considers both short-term and long-term effects. Distributed in the US by Taylor and Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)