Oncology Nursing Society

Breast cancer, 2d ed.

Mahon (Saint Louis U.) brings together 11 chapters by oncology nurses from the US who address their role in caring for patients with breast cancer. After an introduction to historical, epidemiologic, and clinical perspectives on the disease, they discuss risk factors, prevention and detection, pathophysiology and staging, surgical management and reconstruction, breast restoration and prostheses, symptom management, psychosocial issues, and building effective breast centers through patient navigation and care coordination. This edition has been updated and expanded with new chapters on radiation therapy and the role of nurse navigation, as well as more detailed information on surgical approaches, systemic therapy, and complementary approaches. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Cancer rehabilitation and survivorship; transdisciplinary approaches to personalized care.

As treatments improve, the number of survivors living with cancer as a chronic disease rises. Lester (Ohio State College of Nursing) and Schmitt (retired from Ohio State, James Cancer Hospital) note the shift in focusing solely on fighting the disease to helping patients cope with its long-term effects. Contributors provide health professionals' and patients' perspectives on this challenge. Appendices include landmarks in progress in providing personalized care, recommendations for a research agenda to manage the sequelae of cancer and treatments, an agenda for ways nurses can help improve survivors' outcomes, treatment and survivorship care plans for specific types of cancer and symptoms, resources for continuing psychological distress, and a prescription for living. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)