Women's Cancers

Description

Patients with breast and gynaecological cancers have to contend with a large number of difficult and challenging issues. To help them to do this it is vital that their health carers are fully informed in all aspects of the women's cancers. This book provides a comprehensive and meaningful picture of women's cancers, including epidemiology, histopathology, staging, genetic predisposition, sexual function, fertility, treatment and management, survivorship, and palliative care. To give this book added credibility and holistic application, contributions of women with cancer have been included, and the text is interspersed with patient accounts and experiences.

Women's Cancers is essential reading for all nurses and health care professionals working in cancer care settings, as well as patients and families.

• A comprehensive textbook exploring the range of women's cancers
• Includes examples of patient experiences throughout
• With contributions from experts in the field

Table of Contents

Contributors.
Foreword by Professor Stan Kaye.
Introduction.

1 The History of Women in Relation to Health and Cancer (Victoria Harmer and Maureen Royston-Lee).
2 The Epidemiology of Women's Cancers (Louisa G. Gordon, Christina M. Nagle and Penelope M. Webb).
3 Pathology and Staging of Major Types of Gynaecological and Breast Cancers (Neeta Singh and Rachel Howitt).
4 Tumour Markers (Michelle L. Harrison, Ana Montes and Martin Gore).
5 Genetic Susceptibility to Female Cancers (Gillian Crawford).
6 Lifestyle and Prevention (Elaine Lennan).
7 Cancer of the Breast (Alison Farmer).
8 Cancer of the Ovary (Kate Gregory).
9 Cancer of the Ovary: the Patient's Perspective (Noeleen Young).
10 Cancer of the Cervix (Ken Metcalf and Katherine McCarthy).
11 Cancer of the Endometrium (Ellen Bull and Robert Woolas).
12 Cancer of the Vagina (Sandra Tinkler).
13 Cancer of the Vulva (Beccy Hoddinott Isaac and Lisa Young).
14 Fertility and Cancer in Women (Susan Ingamells, C. Basu, J. Tucker and A. Umranikar).
15 Sexual Health and Dysfunction (Karen Donelly-Cairns).
16 Women and Cancer: Rehabilitation and Survivorship (Alison Keen).
17 Palliative Care (Jane Grant and Carol L. Davis).

Index.

Author Information

Alison Keen is a Macmillan Clinical Nurse Specialist in Gynaecological Oncology at Southampton University Hospitals Trust. She is an active member of the Forum of Gynaecological Oncology Nurses, and Network Site Specific Group.

Elaine Lennan is Consultant Nurse in Oncology and an academic practitioner at Southampton University Hospitals Trust.