100 Questions & Answers About Cancer Symptoms and Cancer Treatment Side Effects by Joanne Frankel Kelvin
Whether you're a newly diagnosed cancer patient, a survivor, or a friend or relative of either, this book offers help. The only text to provide the doctor's and patient's view, 100 Questions & Answers About Cancer Symptoms and Cancer Treatment Side Effects gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about cancer and coping with its symptoms. The book, which includes comments from actual cancer patients, provides invaluable information on the best treatment for relieving pain, nausea, fatigue, anemia, skin problems, the value of complementary and alternative medicine, and much more. Written by cancer care professionals and patients, this book is a unique resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of cancer.
Joanne Frankel Kelvin, RN, MSN, AOCN, has been a nurse for over 25 years. Her clinical specialty is oncology nursing, and she has worked as a nurse practitioner, a clinical nurse specialist, and as a nurse manager. Since 1987, she has worked at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, specializing in the care of patients with gastrointestinal malignancies, including pancreatic cancer. She has counseled patients and families, individually and in groups, in making decisions about treatment, managing symptoms of disease and side effects of treatment, coping with cancer, and planning for end of life care. While maintaining an active clinical practice, she has been involved in numerous professional activities: participating in national committees, publishing book chapters and journal articles, presenting at local and national conferences, and developing educational materials for patients. She is co-author of 100 Questions & Answers About Pancreatic Cancer (Jones and Bartlett, 2002). Leslie B. Tyson, MS, APRN-BC, OCN, is a nurse practitioner at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; she currently works on the Thoracic Oncology Service. She has been an oncology nurse for 27 years and has worked at the Center for the same length of time.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780763726126 |
| ISBN 10 | 0763726125 |
| Title | 100 Questions & Answers About Cancer Symptoms and Cancer Treatment Side Effects |
| Author | Joanne Frankel Kelvin |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc |
| Year published | 2004-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 228 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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