This well-written text is designed to help students and health profess ionals understand oncology through real-life clinical scenarios, helpi ng treatment and management decisions. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this practical case-based format is fun to use and impa rts a sense of reality to the learning process.

Predicting survival and other outcomes is increasingly being recognized as an important skill for palliative care doctors and nurses, oncologists, and other healthcare professionals who treat patients with advanced cancer. Accurate prognosis is essential if we are to offer quality of care and 'a good death', as well as to aid decision-making. There is much prognostic information available that is scattered throughout the palliative care and oncological literature but this is the first time it has been gathered systematically in one place. Glare and Christakis, leaders in the field of...