Cancer (Rehabilitation Medicine Quick Reference)

Description

Cancer rehabilitation is a growing area in physical medicine and rehabilitation. Cancer survivors face both physical and psychosocial issues that affect their quality of life, no matter what type of cancer they have overcome. Additionally, patients undergoing cancer treatment often require therapy to help offset the associated medical problems that emerge as a result of their treatment or the cancer itself. This book will broadly cover assessment and treatment of a multitude of rehabilitation issues as they uniquely affect cancer patients. A complete list of topics will be drawn up by the editor in consultation with the series editor, but there should be no lack of material here. Key areas include pain control, post-surgical rehabilitation, fatigue, neuropathies, bowel and bladder dysfunction, cognitive problems, spine disorders, etc.

Cancer Rehabilitation: Rehabilitation Medicine Quick Reference (RMQR) features:

• Consistent approach in each book and within the series, allows readers to find the information they need rapidly
• Comprehensive coverage of all important topics in PM&R
• Multi-specialty editorship and authorship ensures issues of relevance to all rehabilitation team members are addressed
• Focus on clinical management-provides hands-on, practical guidance for all types of interventions and therapies
• Pitfalls", "Red Flags", "Complications", and "Helpful Hints" help guard against unwanted sequelae

Contents

Part I: Background, Evaluation, and Interventions
1. Cancer Rehabilitation: Basic Ideas and Principles
2. Exercise
3. Occupational Therapy
4. Performance Measures
5. Physical Impairments and Guidelines for Therapy Interventions and Assessments
6. Pulmonary Rehabilitation
Part II: Primary Concerns or Conditions
7. Bone Marrow Transplantation
8. Brain: Leptomeningeal Disease
9. Brain: Metastatic Tumors
10. Brain: Primary Tumors
11. Hematologic Cancer
12. Metastatic Bone Disease: Physiatric Perspective
13. Metastatic Bone Disease: Surgical Perspective
14. Neurofibromatosis Type 1 and Type 2
15. Spinal Cord Compression
Part III: Cancer or Treatment Related Symptoms
16. Anemia
17. Anorexia: Cachexia
18. Asthenia
19. Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction
20. Chemotherapy: Cardiomyopathy
21. Chemotherapy: Chemobrain
22. Chemotherapy: Peripheral Neuropathy
23. Cognitive Dysfunction
24. Cranial Nerve XI Injury Associated with Radical Next Dissection
25. Dyspnea
26. Emergency Medical Issues
27. Fatigue
28. Febrile Neutropenia in Acute Leukemia Patients
29. Free Tissue Transfer
30. Gastrointestinal: Constipation
31. Gastrointestinal: Dysphagia
32. Gastrointestinal: Nutrition and Bowel Management
33. Gout
34. Hypercalcemia
35. Lymphedema: Lower Extremity
36. Lymphedema: Upper Extremity
37. Malnutrition
38. Mastectomy: Complications
39. Mastectomy: Reconstruction Concerns
40. Mental Health: Behavioral Disorders
41. Mental Health: Depression
42. Pain: Conservative Management
43. Pain: Interventional Techniques
44. Paraneoplastic Syndromes Affecting the Central Nervous System
45. Plexopathy: Brachial
46. Plexopathy: Lumbosacral
47. Pressure Ulcers
48. Pulmonary: Pleural Effusions
49. Radiation Effects: Central Nervous System
50. Radiation Effects: Myelitis
51. Sacrectomy
52. Sexuality Issues
53. Sleep Disorders
54. Spasticity
55. Steroid Myopathy
56. Thromboembolic Disease and Prophylaxis
Part IV: Special Concerns
57. Advanced Care Planning and Advance Directives
58. Alcohol Use in Cancer Patients
59. Difficult Conversations
60. Disability and the Return to Work
61.Non-Traditional Treatments: Acupuncture
62. Non-Traditional Treatments: Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine
63. Non-Traditional Treatments: Massage
64. Prognostication
65.Rehabilitation Chaplain
66. Rehabilitation at the end of life

About the Editors

Ki Shin, MD
MD, Associate Professor and Section Chief, Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Texas/MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas As head of MD Anderson's cancer rehabilitation division (probably the most mature such program in the country) and a sought-after speaker and researcher, Dr. Shin is uniquely qualified to edit this volume and will bring in a strong multi-disciplinary group of contributors.

Ralph Buschbacher, MD, Series Editor