Biotherapy

This text provides the foundation to understand and apply this therapeutic modality. The skills necessary to care for patients who receive it are included. It also provides further insight into the field of biotherapy, as well as a perspective of the knowledge acquired to date. Administration and nursing management of BRM side effects are delineated along with areas for future nursing research.

Updated to include the newest drugs and those currently in development, this Fourth Edition is a comprehensive reference on the preclinical and clinical pharmacology of anticancer agents.

This portable clinical handbook provides quick access to all major biologic agents and their respective nursing management. Individual chapters on all major categories follow a consistent, clinically useful format of: overview of biology, mechanism of action, regulatory approvals, clinical tips, side effects, administration/dosing, and bibliography.

This 'Neuroendocrinology' special issue provides a collection of papers generated at the first consensus conference devoted to gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors. The conference was held in Frascati (Rome, Italy) in November 2005. The focus was on neuroendocrine tumors of foregut origin, stomach, duodenum and pancreas. A standard approach based on WHO tumors classification was adopted with 63 experts and practicing clinicians confronting their experience and evidence-based data to devise effective strategies for the management of patients with this neglected cancer disease.

by Benjamin Bonavida (Editor)