Symptom Management and Palliative Care

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    Abstract

    This chapter presents a series of case studies with multiple choice question and answers on symptom management and palliative care. The first case study is about a 53-year-old woman with metastatic colon cancer involving the liver, abdominal pleura and lymph nodes, thoracic spine, and brain. Other case studies include a 49-year-old man with a recent diagnosis of unknown primary with metastatic disease involving his abdominal lymph nodes and an abdominal mass adjacent to the left kidney, and a 63-year-old man with a diagnosis of non-small-cell lung cancer. Finally, the chapter discusses a 56-year-old woman with metastatic non-small lung cancer. The chapter commences with factors contributing to the patient's nausea, and ends with a question of with regards to the patients cancer related fatigue, which of the following would not help improve her symptoms.

    Original languageEnglish (US)
    Title of host publicationCancer Consult
    Subtitle of host publicationExpertise for Clinical Practice
    PublisherWiley-Blackwell
    Pages851-859
    Number of pages9
    ISBN (Electronic)9781118589199
    ISBN (Print)9781118589212
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Jun 20 2014

    Keywords

    • Abdominal mass
    • Fatigue
    • Metastatic colon cancer
    • Nausea
    • Palliative care
    • Symptom management

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Medicine

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