Integrates basic science, pathologies, and research with clinical applications, covering different ways to approach problems, tumor assessment, precise target definition, and dosing-specific guidelines to minimize side effects/toxicities while balancing with desired outcomes.

Focuses on patient and family/caregiver-centered care, highlighting the benefits of palliative care and best practices for delivery. Chapters explore interventions, assessment techniques, treatment modalities, recommendations and guidelines, communication techniques, and available resources for palliative care.

Case-based manual walks clinicians through the management of the most common situations found in palliative medicine, from diagnosis and managing symptoms through to grief and bereavement.

Explores how different professions work collaboratively across professional, institutional, social and cultural boundaries to enhance palliative care.

Examines the high cost and poorly addressed exigencies of the family caregiver in chronic illness, including health literacy, palliative care, and health outcomes, through the prism of communication.

comprehensive foundation for gold-standard palliative care for all people living with serious illness, regardless of their diagnosis, prognosis, age, or setting. These guidelines expand on the eight domains of palliative care and include clinical and organizational strategies, screening and assessment elements, practice examples, tools, and resources. The guidelines were developed by the National Consensus Project for Quality Pallliative Care, comprised of 16 national organizations including HPNA with extensive expertise in palliative care and hospice.

For patients and their loved ones, no care decisions are more profound than those made near the end of life. The findings and recommendations of this report will address the needs of patients and their families and assist policy makers, clinicians and their educational and credentialing bodies, leaders of health care delivery and financing organizations, researchers, public and private funders, religious and community leaders, advocates of better care, journalists, and the public to provide the best care possible for people nearing the end of life.

Psychosocial Palliative Care guides the psycho-oncologist through the most salient aspects of effective psychiatric care of patients with advanced illnesses. This handbook reviews basic concepts and definitions of palliative care and the experience of dying, the assessment and management of major psychiatric complications of life-threatening illness, including psychopharmacologic and psychotherapeutic approaches, and covers issues such as bereavement, spirituality, cultural sensitivity, communication and psychiatric contributions to common physical symptom control. A global perspective on death and palliative care is taken throughout the text, and an Appendix provides a comprehensive list of international palliative care resources and training programs.

This 9-volume set provides a critical foundation for healthcare providers who want to incorporate the principles of hospice and palliative medicine into their practice.

CAN BE CHECKED OUT FOR 1 DAY. Updated quarterly, strategies for managing every type of cancer by stage of presentation, discussing the role of all appropriate therapeutic modality treatments. Includes the best decisions on cancer screening and prevention, palliative care, supportive oncology, and quality-of-life issues.