Supportive Care of Children with Cancer: Current Therapy and Guidelines from the Children's Oncology Group

Children's Oncology Group

JHU Press, Apr 5, 2004 - Medical - 412 pages

Three 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 supportive care in pediatric oncology is covered in depth.

Supportive Care of Children with Cancer is a ready-reference handbook designed for use at the hospital bedside, in the oncology outpatient clinic, or in the physician's office. To create this book, leading experts in the field recommended approaches to supportive care which were then critically reviewed by members of the Children's Oncology Group, the world's largest cooperative study group for children's cancer. For students, house officers, fellows, pediatric oncologists, surgeons, nurses, nutritionists, social workers, and psychologists, this book provides essential information about the care of pediatric oncology patients.

The third edition features a new chapter on recognition, prevention, and remediation of burnout in pediatric oncology staff members, while throughout the book, chapters have been revised and updated to reflect the impact of new antibiotic agents, new antiemetics, and new approaches to pain management.

Contents

• The Prevention of Infection: 1
• Immunization: 13
• The Management of Fever: 29
• The Management of Drug Extravasation: 149
• Side Effects of Radiation Therapy: 156
• Chemotherapyinduced Nausea: 185
• Psychosocial Care: 337
• Recognition Prevention and Remediation: 354
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine: 370
• Index: 397
• Blood Component Therapy 39: 39
• Hemorrhagic and Thrombotic: 59
• Contents: 79
• The Management of Drug Extravasation 149: 149
• Side Effects of Radiation Therapy 156: 156
• Chemotherapyinduced Nausea: 185
• The Management of Pain 200: 200
• Oncologic Emergencies 221: 221
• Nutritional Support 243: 243
• Mouth Care 262: 262
• Central Venous Access 269: 269
• The Sexually Mature Young Adult Patient: 279
• Care of the Hematopoietic Stem Cell: 286
• Psychosocial Care 337: 337
• Recognition Prevention and Remediation: 354
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine: 370
• Index 397: 397
• Foreword by Gregory H Reaman ix: ix
• Preface xi: xi
• List of Contributors xvii: xvii
• The Prevention of Infection 1: 1
• Immunization 13: 13
• The Management of Fever: 25
• Blood Component Therapy 39: 39
• Hemorrhagic and Thrombotic: 52
• Hematopoietic Growth Factors 85: 85
• Monitoring and Management: 100
• Monitoring and Management of Ototoxicity 130: 130
• The Management of Drug Extravasation 149: 149
• Side Effects of Radiation Therapy 156: 156
• Chemotherapyinduced Nausea: 181
• The Management of Pain 200: 200
• Oncologic Emergencies 221: 221
• Nutritional Support 243: 243
• Mouth Care 262: 262
• Central Venous Access 269: 269
• The Sexually Mature Young Adult Patient: 279
• Care of the Hematopoietic Stem Cell: 286
• Psychosocial Care 337: 337
• Recognition Prevention and Remediation: 354
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine: 370
• Index 397: 397

Bibliographic information

• Title: Supportive Care of Children with Cancer: Current Therapy and Guidelines from the Children's Oncology Group; The Johns Hopkins Series in Hematology/Oncology
• Author: Children's Oncology Group
• Editor: Arnold J. Altman
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: JHU Press, 2004
• ISBN: 0801879094, 9780801879098
• Length: 412 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Caregiving; Medical / Diseases; Medical / Oncology / General; Medical / Oncology / Pediatric; Medical / Pediatrics