Oncology in Primary Care

Oncology in Primary Care is designed to help providers counsel and manage their patients with cancer. It emphasizes prognosis, long-term effects of therapy, survivorship, and surveillance to help the provider advise patients regarding therapeutic decisions and end-of-life decisions. With an appealing, easy to browse format, this text is rich with tables and graphs to facilitate access and provide quick answers to questions commonly encountered in the primary care setting.

Features:
• First book intended specifically for the primary care provider
• Jointly edited by an Oncologist and a practicing primary care doctor, thus ensuring the relevance of its contents to generalists
• Provides rapid access to essential information needed to assist in the treatment of complications of cancer therapy
• Emphasizes prognosis, long-term effects of therapy, survivorship, and surveillance–all vitally important to the primary care provider to appropriately manage co-morbid conditions and to advise patients regarding therapeutic decisions and end-of-life decisions
• Includes access to full text and image bank online