The UK Association of Supportive Care in Cancer Handbook of Supportive Oncology

by Richard Berman (Editor), Ben Heyworth (Editor), Ashique Ahamed (Editor)

Overview

What does supportive oncology do that palliative care doesn’t already do? Answering that question forms part of the rationale behind this text. Supportive oncology is delivered across the whole cancer experience from diagnosis through treatment to post-treatment care, and so necessitates the involvement of most clinical specialties and many non-clinical services. Palliative care – which focuses on advanced disease and end of life – has a special and important role within this broader and longer-term scope of supportive care in cancer.

This handbook defines the new and emerging specialty of supportive oncology and equips the workforce with the appropriate skill sets:

• Providing personalized and targeted treatments consistent with the stage of disease
• A focus on preservation and improvement in quality of life
• Affecting survival and the quality of that survival
• Permitting the use of the most effective anti-cancer agents
• Assisting in accurate diagnosis and management

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040341513
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	05/19/2025
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	174
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Richard Berman FRCP - Consultant in Supportive & Palliative Care, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Senior Lecturer in Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, UK

Ben Heyworth BA - Survivorship Network Manager, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK

Ashique Ahamed MRCP - Consultant in Supportive & Palliative Care, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust. Manchester, UK

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Section I: Setting the Scene
1. Introduction

Section II: Clinical Challenges for Supportive Oncology
2. Managing Treatment and Cancer-Related Acute Issues - Acute Oncology
3. Pain and Symptom Management
A. Pain Assessment
B. Symptom Management
C. Cancer-Associated Thrombosis

Section III: Rehabilitation and Survivorship
4. Survivorship and Late Consequences of Treatment
A. Survivorship and Personalised Care
B. Late Consequences of Treatment

5. Patient Optimisation and Rehabilitation

Section IV: Special Populations
6. The Age Spectrum
A. Older People and Frailty
B. Teenagers and Young Adults

7. Intersectional Approaches to Supportive Oncology

Section V: Organizational Changes
8. Reviewing Relationships with Palliative and End-of-Life Care
9. The Future – How Do Service Models Need to Adapt?

Index