Cancer Nursing: A Comprehensive Textbook

by Marilyn Frank-Stromborg, Ruth McCorkle, Marcia Grant

Presenting a multidisciplinary approach to cancer nursing, this edition includes new chapters on: cultural systems related to cancer; the burden of the caregiver; the principles of immunology; gene therapy; the physiological aspects of pain; pain assessment; pain management; confusion; current cancer nursing research; rehabilitation services; and the legal responsibility of the nurse. There is also a new unit on nurses' personal experience with cancer,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0721656684
• ISBN13: 9780721656687
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: W.B. Saunders Company
• Length: 1461 Pages