The first truly interdisciplinary book on
supportive oncology and palliative care returns with a new edition that serves as a practical guideto the management of the myriad symptoms and quality-of-life issues that occur in patients with cancer-including newly diagnosed patients, patientsundergoing treatment,
cancer survivors, and patients whose disease is no longer curable. The interdisciplinary group of contributors includes leading experts in hospice care and
palliative medicine, oncology, nursing, neurology, psychiatry, anesthesiology, and pharmacology. This completely revised edition features new chapters on caregiver stress, hepatic failure, pulmonary failure, research issues in
This is not a review.I wrote a very favorable formal review of this book for "New Jersey Medicine, " for either their October or November 2004 issue. You might want to quote it.