Oncology in Primary Care.

Intro -- Oncology in Primary Care -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- Contents -- SECTION I Cancer Prevention and Care-The Evolving Role of Primary Care -- The Role of the Primary Care Clinician in Cancer Prevention and Care -- The Risk of Cancer in the United States and Globally: Implications for Primary Care Clinicians -- SECTION II Cancer Risk Factors and Prevention -- Genetic Risk and the Management of the High-Risk Individual -- Medical Approaches to Cancer Prevention -- Smoking -- Infections and Inflammation -- Chemicals and Radiation -- Obesity and Physical Activity -- Nutrition -- SECTION III Cancer Screening -- Principles of Cancer Screening -- Breast Cancer Screening -- Screening for Gynecologic Malignancies -- Colorectal Cancer Screening -- Screening for Hepatocellular Carcinoma -- Barrett's Esophagus -- Primary and Secondary Prevention of Skin Malignancies -- Prostate Cancer Screening -- Lung Cancer Screening -- SECTION IV Clinical Presentations of Cancer -- Does My Patient Have Cancer? Presenting Symptoms -- Paraneoplastic Syndromes -- Incidentally Found Cancers -- Principles of Cancer Diagnosis and Staging -- SECTION V Management and Treatment of the Patient with Cancer -- Oncologic Emergencies -- Pain Management -- Nausea and Vomiting -- Diarrhea and Constipation -- Shortness of Breath and Pleural Effusion -- Fatigue, Depression, and Anxiety -- Cancer-Associated Anorexia-Cachexia Syndrome -- Mucositis -- Anemia, Leukopenia, and Thrombocytopenia -- Hypercoagulable States Associated with Cancer -- The Perioperative Management of the Patient with Cancer -- Communication with Patients with Cancer -- Principles of Hospice and Palliative Care -- Rehabilitation in Patients with Cancer -- Principles of Antineoplastic Therapy -- SECTION VI Cancer Survivorship -- Cancer Survivors, Oncologists, and Primary Care Clinicians.

Cardiac and Pulmonary Sequelae of Cancer and Its Treatment -- Bone Health -- Fertility -- Sexual Dysfunction -- Endocrinopathies -- Neurocognitive Effects of Cancer and Its Therapy -- Survivors of Childhood Cancer -- Survivors of Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation -- Psychosocial Sequelae of Cancer -- SECTION VII Cancers of Individual Sites -- Head and Neck Cancer -- Lung Cancer, Mesothelioma, Thymoma -- Gastric and Esophageal Cancers -- Cancer of the Pancreas and Hepatobiliary Tracts -- Colorectal Cancer -- Anal Cancer -- Hepatocellular Carcinoma -- Prostate Cancer -- Bladder Cancer -- Kidney Cancer -- Cancers of the Testicle, Urethra, and Penis -- Breast Cancer -- Gynecologic Cancers -- Skin Cancers -- Lymphoma -- Plasma Cell Disorders -- Acute Leukemias and Myelodysplasia -- Myeloproliferative Neoplasms -- Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcomas -- Cancers of the Nervous System -- Endocrine Cancers -- Cancer of Unknown Primary -- HIV and Other Immunosuppression-Related Malignancies -- Common Childhood Cancers -- Glossary: Common Cancer-Related Terms -- Appendix: Useful Internet and Community Resources for Cancer Care.

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