Product Description: Progress in the treatment of cancer over the past two decades has been rapid with many new and novel therapeutic modalities arriving at an unprecedented pace. Overall cancer mortality rates have actually begun to fall in parallel with progress in the diagnosis and treatment of malignant disease...read more

Product Description: Written with a broader perspective and knowledge, Cancer Supportive Care: Advances in Therapeutic Strategies presents state-of-the-art management options for the full range of symptoms, toxicities, and complications experienced by cancer patients...read more

Cancer is the most common cause of death and morbidity in the elderly. This book provides an extensive review of the effects of age on tolerance of cancer treatments, prevention, and treatment strategies and the influence of age on treatment choice. The authors analyse major clinical trials and highlight emerging issues in geriatric oncology as well as pain control, supportive care, and rehabilitation. It is an exhaustive reference that will enable the practitioner to optimize management of the elderly cancer patient while at the same time providing a state-of-the-art review on the epidemiology, pathology, and biological interaction of ageing and cancer.

Product Description: A review of current information on the effects of age on tolerance of antineoplastic treatment, this book looks at the management of common malignancies, and examines the influence of age on treatment choice. Information on patients, disease and treatment has been prefaced by a chapter devoted to decision analysis which, the authors feel, is invaluable in the planning of the most favourable course of action in complex clinical situations, such as those involving elderly cancer patients...read more