RT Journal
A1 Rosenthal S
T1 ONcologic emergencies
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 1981
FD July 24
VO 246
IS 4
SP 390
OP 390
DO 10.1001/jama.1981.03320040058036
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1981.03320040058036
AB With recent improvements in life expectancy and quality of survival for many patients with cancer, the successful management of oncological emergencies has taken on a new importance. In this timely new book, Yarbro and Bornstein provide a comprehensive discussion of the recognition and management of urgent problems in cancer patients. More inclusive than the title would suggest, the contents include psychological difficulties, pain control, supportive care, and chemotherapeutic toxicities, as well as the more traditional topics such as superior vena cava syndrome, neurological complications, hypercalcemia, infection, and renal failure.Unlike many multiauthored texts, Oncologic Emergencies maintains a uniform style and a consistently high level of information. Each chapter is well written and generously endowed with useful charts and tables providing extensive data on differential diagnosis, incidence and etiology, and therapeutic regimens. References are numerous and reasonably current (through 1979). Rather than taking a cookbook approach, the editors have insisted on