书目名称 | Supportive Care in Cancer Patients | 编辑 | Hans-Jörg Senn,Agnes Glaus (Oberschwester),Luzius | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Recent Results in Cancer Research | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | The symposium on supportive care in cancer patients, which took place in St. Gallen, Switzerland, on February 18-21, 1987, wel comed renowned experts in the field and more than 600 partici pants from 25 countries with the aim of stimulating discussion on how to improve our professional skills and personal attitudes to ward cancer patients in all stages of their disease. Why did we or ganize such a symposium on supportive care in cancer patients? Recent decades have witnessed remarkable success in cancer treat ment, and we have learned how to cure a finite number of neoplas tic diseases. Some malignant tumors that previously entailed high fatality rates, such as leukemias, lymphomas, and testicular can cers, can now be cured, even when at an advanced stage. Yet it seems to many that our struggle to improve results and to fight death from cancer has also imposed greater toxicity on patients. Conventional scientifically based oncology has only recently made adequate efforts to improve the subjective quality of life of cancer patients, for example through prophylaxis against emesis, nausea, and scalp hypothermia, pain control and the development of psy chosocial support structu | 出版日期 | Conference proceedings 1988 | 关键词 | cancer; cancer therapy; chemotherapy; leukemia; oncology; pain; psychotherapy; quality of life; radiation th | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82932-1 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-642-82934-5 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-642-82932-1Series ISSN 0080-0015 Series E-ISSN 2197-6767 | issn_series | 0080-0015 | copyright | Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1988 |
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