Cancer patient home care

Author: Han Shifan
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: The Common Disease Home Care Series is a series of books that are close to patients, practical, problem-solving, and, making them highly readable. Specific features are as follows: The problems in the books are derived from surveys of over 1,000 patients, reflecting the concerns and needs of patients and their families. The series emphasizes "home care," making it easy for readers to understand and apply, solving real-life problems. The authors are all clinical workers with extensive practical care experience and a certain level of writing proficiency. The content of the book is easy to understand and progresses from simple to complex. The series keeps pace with the times and highlights the full content of holistic care. Solving every practical problem is the purpose of this series. The methods introduced in the book include traditional Chinese medicine, Western medicine, psychological therapy, as well as different methods for different diseases, allowing readers to find the correct solution based on their own situations. This book helps relieve patients' suffering, resolves family worries, and makes informed medical choices at the crossroads of illness. It serves as a trusted guide and friend.
Cancer is currently one of the main diseases threatening people's health. The prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care of cancer have become major research topics in the medical fields of various countries. Thanks to the joint efforts of experts worldwide, cancer, especially malignant tumors, is no longer an incurable disease. Some malignant tumors can not only be prevented but also delayed or even cured. Cancer patients can live a normal life (including reproduction), and home care for cancer patients is an important part of cancer prevention, treatment, and care. At the same time, it also extends the care provided by hospitals.
With the aim of facilitating cancer patients' access to medical care, rehabilitation, and guiding family members in home care, this book includes basic knowledge of cancer home care, common hospital care practices, and a cancer database. In a question-and-answer format, it uses simple and easy-to-understand language to address some of the medical challenges that may arise in cancer home care, such as the common symptoms of cancer patients, how to detect cancer, and how cancer patients can improve their nutritional status and enhance physical exercise—problems that patients and their families are most concerned about, worried about, and need to solve.