Comprehensive Insights into Colon Cancer: From Prevention to Palliative Care
Comprehensive Insights into Colon Cancer: From Prevention to Palliative Care

Author: Dr. Spineanu Eugenia

Publisher: Dr. Spineanu Eugenia

Published: 2024-03-03

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13:

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Colon cancer is a formidable adversary, affecting millions of lives worldwide. Whether you're a healthcare professional, a patient, or a concerned individual, understanding this disease is crucial. "Comprehensive Insights into Colon Cancer" is your definitive guide, offering a wealth of knowledge on every facet of colon cancer, from its roots to the most advanced treatment options available today. What You'll Discover: In-Depth Knowledge: Dive deep into the world of colon cancer with our comprehensive treatise. From its historical perspective to epidemiology, risk factors, and classifications, we leave no stone unturned. Medical Details: Gain insights into the anatomy and biochemistry of the colon, neural control, microbiota's role, and more, all explained in easy-to-understand language. Cutting-Edge Research: Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in colon cancer research, including genetic mutations, molecular pathways, and epigenetics. Screening and Diagnosis: Learn about early detection, diagnostic imaging, colonoscopy, and staging, giving you the tools to take charge of your health. Treatment Options: Explore various treatment modalities, including surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, targeted therapies, and immunotherapy, along with valuable information on palliative care. Global Insights: Understand the global burden of colon cancer, disparities in diagnosis and treatment, international collaborations, and ethical considerations in colon cancer care. With clear explanations, detailed illustrations, and a holistic approach to colon cancer care, this treatise empowers you to make informed decisions about your health or the health of your patients. It's a valuable resource for healthcare professionals seeking to deepen their knowledge and individuals looking to take proactive steps in preventing and managing colon cancer. "Comprehensive Insights into Colon Cancer" is more than a treatise; it's a beacon of hope in the fight against this disease. By arming yourself with knowledge, you can navigate the challenges of colon cancer with confidence and embark on a journey toward better health and well-being.

Palliative Care in Oncology
Palliative Care in Oncology

Author: Bernd Alt-Epping

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-03-26

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 3662462028

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Palliative care provides comprehensive support for severely affected patients with any life-limiting or life-threatening diagnosis. To do this effectively, it requires a disease-specific approach as the patients’ needs and clinical context will vary depending on the underlying diagnosis. Experts in the field of palliative care and oncology describe in detail the needs of patients with advanced cancer in comparison to those with non-cancer disease and also identify the requirements of patients with different cancer entities. Basic principles of symptom control are explained, with careful attention to therapy for pain associated with either the cancer or its treatment and to symptom-guided antineoplastic therapy. Complex therapeutic strategies for palliative cancer patients are highlighted that involve both cancer- and symptom-directed options and address a range of therapeutic aims. Issues relating to drug use in palliative cancer care are fully explored, and a separate section is devoted to care in the final phase. A range of organizational and policy issues are also discussed, and the book concludes by considering likely future developments in palliative care for cancer patients. Palliative Care in Oncology will be of particular interest to palliative care physicians who are interested in broadening the scope of their disease-specific knowledge, as well as to oncologists who wish to learn more about modern palliative care concepts relevant to their day-to-day work with cancer patients.

Guiding Cancer Control
Guiding Cancer Control

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2019-08-30

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 0309492319

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Throughout history, perhaps no other disease has generated the level of social, scientific, and political discourse or has had the degree of cultural significance as cancer. A collective in the truest sense of the word, "cancer" is a clustering of different diseases that afflict individuals in different ways. Its burdens are equally broad and diverse, from the physical, financial, and psychological tolls it imposes on individuals to the costs it inflicts upon the nation's clinical care and public health systems, and despite decades of concerted efforts often referred to as the "war on cancer", those costs have only continued to grow over time. The causes and effects of cancer are complexâ€"in part preventable and treatable, but also in part unknown, and perhaps even unknowable. Guiding Cancer Control defines the key principles, attributes, methods, and tools needed to achieve the goal of implementing an effective national cancer control plan. This report describes the current structure of cancer control from a local to global scale, identifies necessary goals for the system, and formulates the path towards integrated disease control systems and a cancer-free future. This framework is a crucial step in establishing an effective, efficient, and accountable system for controlling cancer and other diseases.

The Cancer Atlas
The Cancer Atlas

Author: Ahmedin Jemal

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781604432282

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This atlas illustrates the latest available data on the cancer epidemic, showing causes, stages of development, and prevalence rates of different types of cancers by gender, income group, and region. It also examines the cost of the disease, both in terms of health care and commercial interests, and the steps being taken to curb the epidemic, from research and screening to cancer management programs and health education.

Comprehensive Insights Into Colon Cancer
Comprehensive Insights Into Colon Cancer

Author: Spineanu Eugenia

Publisher:

Published: 2023-12-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Unlock the Knowledge to Fight Colon Cancer and Empower Your Health Journey! Colon cancer is a formidable adversary, affecting millions of lives worldwide. Whether you're a healthcare professional, a patient, or a concerned individual, understanding this disease is crucial. "Comprehensive Insights into Colon Cancer" is your definitive guide, offering a wealth of knowledge on every facet of colon cancer, from its roots to the most advanced treatment options available today. What You'll Discover: In-Depth Knowledge: Dive deep into the world of colon cancer with our comprehensive treatise. From its historical perspective to epidemiology, risk factors, and classifications, we leave no stone unturned. Medical Details: Gain insights into the anatomy and biochemistry of the colon, neural control, microbiota's role, and more, all explained in easy-to-understand language. Cutting-Edge Research: Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in colon cancer research, including genetic mutations, molecular pathways, and epigenetics. Screening and Diagnosis: Learn about early detection, diagnostic imaging, colonoscopy, and staging, giving you the tools to take charge of your health. Treatment Options: Explore various treatment modalities, including surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, targeted therapies, and immunotherapy, along with valuable information on palliative care. Global Insights: Understand the global burden of colon cancer, disparities in diagnosis and treatment, international collaborations, and ethical considerations in colon cancer care. With clear explanations, detailed illustrations, and a holistic approach to colon cancer care, this treatise empowers you to make informed decisions about your health or the health of your patients. It's a valuable resource for healthcare professionals seeking to deepen their knowledge and individuals looking to take proactive steps in preventing and managing colon cancer. "Comprehensive Insights into Colon Cancer" is more than a treatise; it's a beacon of hope in the fight against this disease. By arming yourself with knowledge, you can navigate the challenges of colon cancer with confidence and embark on a journey toward better health and well-being.

Global Perspectives on Cancer
Global Perspectives on Cancer

Author: Kenneth D. Miller M.D.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2015-02-03

Total Pages: 784

ISBN-13: 144082858X

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Two leading oncologists, along with experts spanning several medical disciplines, shed light on the global pandemic of cancer, particularly the difference in diagnosis, treatment, and care between global communities. Despite advancing globalization and amazing breakthroughs in modern medicine, developing countries continue to struggle with the prevention and treatment of the most common killer in the world today—cancer. Logistical barriers, scarceness of resources, and economic hardships in these regions make the screening, detection, and care of this disease difficult at best. This book is the only one of its kind to review the pandemic of cancer from a global and epidemiological perspective. The work is presented in three sections, focusing on key issues in cancer management, treatment of specific types of the disease, and the difference in medical care between low-, medium-, and high-resource countries. Chapters address the history, incidence, and treatment across nations; presiding cultural attitudes which may delay or prevent treatment in many parts of the world; and the geopolitics of cancer care and funding. Patients and caregivers from all around the globe explain the daily challenges of living with the disease in their nation.

Improving Palliative Care for Cancer
Improving Palliative Care for Cancer

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2001-10-19

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0309074029

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In our society's aggressive pursuit of cures for cancer, we have neglected symptom control and comfort care. Less than one percent of the National Cancer Institute's budget is spent on any aspect of palliative care research or education, despite the half million people who die of cancer each year and the larger number living with cancer and its symptoms. Improving Palliative Care for Cancer examines the barriersâ€"scientific, policy, and socialâ€"that keep those in need from getting good palliative care. It goes on to recommend public- and private-sector actions that would lead to the development of more effective palliative interventions; better information about currently used interventions; and greater knowledge about, and access to, palliative care for all those with cancer who would benefit from it.

Phytopharmaceuticals and Biotechnology of Herbal Plants
Phytopharmaceuticals and Biotechnology of Herbal Plants

Author: Sachidanand Singh

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2022-12-28

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 1000811298

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Plant-based drugs play an important role in all cultures and have been crucial in maintaining health and fighting diseases, and by using contemporary methods of biotechnology, plants with explicit chemical compositions are propagated and genetically upgraded for the mining of pharmaceuticals. Phytopharmaceuticals and Biotechnology of Herbal Plants presents the latest advances in the development of transgenic plants, covering phototherapeutics, secondary metabolite production, metabolomics, metabolic engineering, bioinformatics, quality control of herbal plant products, crop improvement using various breeding techniques, tissue culture techniques, and the future of phytopharmaceuticals. Features: Describes developments and applications of phytopharmaceuticals of herbal plants. Highlights the importance of phytopharmaceutical of plants and potential applications in the food and pharma industries. Provides an overview of research on key anticancer drugs to elucidate the biotechnological approaches for their production in cell cultures. Places special emphasis on the biosynthetic pathway mapping and metabolic engineering. Phytopharmaceuticals and Biotechnology of Herbal Plants will be an invaluable resource to academics and researchers associated with plant science, herbal drug manufacturers, and phytochemists.

Cancer Care for the Whole Patient
Cancer Care for the Whole Patient

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2008-03-19

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 0309134161

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Cancer care today often provides state-of-the-science biomedical treatment, but fails to address the psychological and social (psychosocial) problems associated with the illness. This failure can compromise the effectiveness of health care and thereby adversely affect the health of cancer patients. Psychological and social problems created or exacerbated by cancer-including depression and other emotional problems; lack of information or skills needed to manage the illness; lack of transportation or other resources; and disruptions in work, school, and family life-cause additional suffering, weaken adherence to prescribed treatments, and threaten patients' return to health. Today, it is not possible to deliver high-quality cancer care without using existing approaches, tools, and resources to address patients' psychosocial health needs. All patients with cancer and their families should expect and receive cancer care that ensures the provision of appropriate psychosocial health services. Cancer Care for the Whole Patient recommends actions that oncology providers, health policy makers, educators, health insurers, health planners, researchers and research sponsors, and consumer advocates should undertake to ensure that this standard is met.