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Nutrition Management of the Cancer Patient

Author(s): Abby Bloch, PhD, RD
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  • ISBN-13: 9780834201323
  • ISBN-10:0834201321
  • Hardcover    431 pages      © 1990
Price: International Sales $215.95 US List
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Overview

Here is a comprehensive, expert, and practical resource for the nutritional care of patients with cancer. It offers a wide array of practical tools, tips, and techniques for nutritional assessment and follow-up care, and includes patient monitoring and counseling techniques, multi-level dysphagia diets, total and peripheral parenteral nutrition programs, vitamin supplement programs, and more.

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Contents:

INTRODUCTION: IDENTIFICATION AND GENERAL FEEDING

Nutrition Needs of Cancer Patients

Cancer's Impact on the Nutrition Status of Patients

Overview: Screening, Assessing, and Monitoring

Assessment Counseling

General Feeding Problems

SPECIFIC PATIENT POPULATIONS

The Patient with Head and Neck Cancer

Dysphagia and the Cancer Patient

Nutrition Implications in Esophageal and Gastric Cancer

Nutrition Problems Caused by Pancreatic, Liver, or Renal Cancer

The Gastrointestinal Tract: Small Bowel and Colon

Low-Microbial Diets for Patients with Granulocytopenia

Pediatric Oncology Nutrition Support

Nutrition in Children with Cancer: A Case Study Approach

Nutrition Management of the Paient with Breast Cancer

TREATMENT MODALITIES

Impact of Chemotherapy on the Nutrition Status of the Cancer Patient

The Impact of Radiation Therapy on the Nutrition Status of the Cancer Patient: An Overview Impact of Radiation Therapy on the Nutrition Status of the Cancer Patient: Acute and Chronic Complications

Bone Marrow Transplantation: Nutrition Support and Monitoring

METHODS OF MANAGEMENT

Encouraging Oral Intake

Use of Supplements: Types of Supplements

Use of Supplements: Practical Suggestions

Tube Feeding: Overview

Tube Feeding: Practical Suggestions

Methods of Management: Parenteral Nutrition

Management Options: Food Service Facilities

The Nutrition Support Team Management Options: Clinical Nutrition Management in a Cancer Treatment Setting

OTHER CONCERNS

Home Care Training and Management Options

Ethical and Psychologic Issues Relating to the Cancer Patient

Cancer Quackery


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Abby Bloch, PhD, RD

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