A Practical Approach to the Care of Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer

✍ Scribed by Julia Chisholm,Rachel Hough,Louise Soanes (eds.)

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 260
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book discusses the most important practical aspects involved in providing multidisciplinary Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) services for cancer patients. It draws on international experience in several continents of establishing and running such services and provides a contemporary, practical approach to AYA care based on accumulated experience. It is of interest to those establishing or seeking to improve AYA services as well as those already caring for AYA cance patients.
Among topics discussed are incidence trends and treatment pathways, access to clinical trials for adolescents, transition from pediatric to adult services, psychological support and social care as well as survivorship and fertility.
This book is of value of those establishing new services, those developing an existing service and those whose work includes the care of AYA patients. It is an important companion for pediatricians, oncologists as well as other medical, nursing and allied health professionals caring for Adolescents and Yound Adults with cancer.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-vii
Overview of Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer (Martin G. McCabe)....Pages 1-18
Cancer Research and AYA (Lorna A. Fern, Jeremy Whelan)....Pages 19-35
Models of Delivery of Care for AYA (Dan Stark, Andrea Ferrari)....Pages 37-55
Psychological Support and Social Care (Lucy Holland, Kate Thompson)....Pages 57-81
Health Behaviour and Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors (Gemma Pugh, Abigail Fisher)....Pages 83-113
AYA Survivorship (Victoria Grandage, Susan Mehta, Rachael Windsor)....Pages 115-131
Transitional Care: Best Practices for Adolescent Cancer Care (Faith Gibson)....Pages 133-151
Fertility in the Adolescent and Young Adult Patient with Cancer (Nivedita Reddy, Caroline L. Furness, Melanie C. Davies)....Pages 153-178
Palliative Care in Adolescents and Young Adults (Anna-Karenia Anderson)....Pages 179-209
What Adolescents and Young Adults Want Health Professionals to Know (Jeanette Hawkins)....Pages 211-238
Caring for the Carers (Lesley Edwards, Laura Beek)....Pages 239-260

✦ Subjects

Oncology

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