Delivering timely service and evidence-informed resources to people in BC and the Yukon facing cancer and those involved in oncology care or research.
Contents:; Beginning -- Advance care planning -- Chronic illness and end of life -- Dementia and end of life -- Pain management : it?s more than knowing meds -- Physical symptom management -- Suffering : it?s not just the pain -- Active dying : the final days and hours -- After the death : the long…
Summary:; Most people accessing mental health and addiction services have experienced trauma. For those working in community services, treatment agencies and hospitals, providing "trauma-informed care" requires an understanding of the effects of trauma, and of how to create programs, spaces and pol…
Table of Contents; PART I DISCOVERY AND DIAGNOSIS; PART II RELATING TO CANCER; PART III THE OTHER REALITIES OF PROSTATE CANCER; PART IV A LIFETIME?S JOURNEY; EPILOGUE
Table of Contents:; PART I HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCIES; PART II AERODIGESTIVE MALIGNANCIES; PART III ENDOCRINE MALIGNANCIES; PART IV BREAST CANCER; PART V GENITOURINARY MALIGNANCIES; PART VI GASTROINTESTINAL MALIGNANCIES; PART VII SARCOMA; PART VIII MELANOMA; PART IX CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MALIGNANCIE…
Table of Contents:; Topical Therapy -- Eczema -- Urticaria -- Acne, Rosacea and Related Disorders -- Psoriasis and Other Papulosquamous Diseases -- Bacterial Infections -- Sexually Transmitted Infections -- Viral Infections -- Fungal Infections -- Exanthems and Drug Reactions -- Hypersensitivity S…
Table of Contents :; Introduction to advance care planning -- Overview and introduction to advance care planning -- What are the benefits of advance care planning and how do we know? -- An introduction to advance care planning: practice at the frontline -- Person-centred care: how does advance care…
Table of Contents :; PART I: Introduction -- Why it is important to know about patients? wishes to die -- PART II: Research --Illness narratives, meaning making, and epistemic injustice in research at the end of life -- Expressed desire for hastened death in seven patients living with advanced canc…