A Practical Guide to Rehabilitation Oncology (Hardcover)

This is a detailed coverage of the various forms of rehabilitation that are now practised by medical professionals and which are available to cancer patients, written by a doctor with 50 years of experience of oncology work. Included in the topics covered are the importance of diagnosis, counselling, cancer of visible areas of the body, cancer of the breast, amputations, stomas, cancer-induced paralyses, metabolic syndromes, training in oncological rehabilitation and care of the dying. The book stresses the use of "oncology" to mean the modern vehicle for all knowledge of the causation, prevention and treatment of cancer and underlines the view of the author that rehabilitation means beginning with diagnosis and ending with restoration to health.