TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hui,David
AU  - Bruera,Eduardo
TI  - Internal medicine issues in palliative cancer care 
SN  - 9780199330324
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Cancer
KW  - Palliative treatment
KW  - Comorbidity
KW  - Hospice care
KW  - Terminal care
KW  - Neoplasms
KW  - therapy
KW  - Palliative Care
KW  - methods
KW  - Hospice Care
KW  - Internal Medicine
KW  - Multimorbidity
KW  - Terminal Care
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Pulmonary -- Cardiovascular -- Nephrology and metabolic abnormalities -- Gastrointestinal -- Hematological disorders -- Infections -- Endocrine -- Rheumatology -- Neuro-psychiatric
N2  - "Patients with advanced cancer may develop a number of clinical complications related to tumor progression or a variety of aggressive treatments. The majority of these patients are elderly, often with multiple co-morbidities that require appropriate assessment and management. In the palliative stage of their disease, patients undergo a progressive transition from active acute care to community-based hospice care. This transition requires modification in the diagnostic tests, monitoring procedures and pharmacological treatments to adjust them to the palliative and short-term nature of the care. Internal Medicine Issues in Palliative Cancer Care looks at internal medicine through a prognosis-based framework and provides a practical approach to maximizing comfort and quality of life while minimizing aggressive investigations and therapies for patients with life-limiting disease. Forty-six common internal medicine conditions are organized into nine clinical categories: pulmonary, cardiovascular, renal and metabolic, gastrointestinal, hematologic, infectious, endocrine, rheumatologic, and neuro-psychiatric"--Publisher's description
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