This book is designed to give the busy clinician immediate, easy-to-access and practical advice on clinical problems which may arise in the management of gynae-oncological patients. These problems may be rare on common but all are difficult to manage. This book provides current guidelines for management from an authoritative team of palliative care specialists, oncologists and gynaecologists.

This is the third book in a new international, multi-contributed series aimed at providing practical, clinical guidance on how to deal with difficult symptoms related to specific cancer sites. There are few more distressing problems for patients and families than the development of a primary or secondary brain tumour. Treatment is often palliative, though intensive, from the start. Little firm evidence exists to guide the physician in caring for patients with seizures refractory to standard treatment. Most of the work is based on case reports or personal experience. This book draws the...

This book is designed to give the busy clinician advice on clinical problems which may be relatively rarely encountered or very common but which are often very difficult to manage. The book includes a review of the current oncological and hemato-oncological management of advanced disease with symptom control advice.

Dyspnoea is a common symptom in people with advanced cancer, cardiac, respiratory, and some neurological diseases. This book deals with the palliation of breathlessness associated with advanced disease. It includes chapters on the best ways to help patients and families live as fully as possible with this distressing symptom.

This book is designed to give the busy clinician immediate, easy-to-access, and practical advice on problems which may arise in the treatment of patients with head and neck cancer. Both the physical and psychological needs of patients with this distressing disease are covered.

The Palliative Care Consultations series is primarily aimed at those individuals working in an acute hospital cancer center and/or tertiary referral center. Books are designed to give the busy clinician advice on clinical problems, both those rarely encountered and those that are very common, but difficult. The volumes are site specific and each volume encompasses a review of the current oncological or haemato-oncological management of advanced disease with symptom control advice. These volumes will give clinicians excellent advice on symptom control in the context of palliative care. The...

This pocket-sized book is an excellent accessible, portable source of guidance on the principles and practices of pain management. The new edition features a new focus on chronic pain, incorporates all of the newest pain medications, reflects our latest understanding of pain physiology, and presents entirely new sections covering functional imaging and the use of strong opioid medications for the relief of non-cancer pain.

Hospital palliative care teams have been established in rapidly increasing numbers over the last 20 years, as it has been recognized that hospices can never transfer the philosophy and practice of palliative care into the acute sector by simply existing; the often work as 'stand alone units' and remain outside mainstream medicine. However, it has become apparent that improving access to palliative care for patients in acute hospitals is not as easy as employing external palliative care specialists as consultants. Even setting up a team of professionals who work solely in a hospital will often...

Poppy is a delightful little girl who has adventurous dreams about being in the sleepyland of Glad. This wonderful children's story offers a triumph of positivity and love over whatever fears we may face in life. Poppy is an empowering story for kids, because it lets readers know that facing problems head on while being strong and positive allows us to achieve great things. Says the author, "I truly believe in the power of positivity. I wanted to show it all starts in the mind; you dream it, you believe it, you achieve it " Sara Booth is a biomedical scientist in Mansfield Town, UK. She began...