ABSTRACT

This book provides a clear approach to establishing a user involvement system in a healthcare organisation and its potential impact on cancer services. Using a tool kit style approach drawing on examples of successful past projects and case studies to provide evidence of good practice it describes how to plan and implement different stages of user involvement enabling organisations to draw on user experience and expertise to evaluate develop and improve the quality of service that they provide. Members of regional cancer networks multidisciplinary cancer care teams and all those involved in the NHS cancer services will find this toolkit interesting reading.

section 1|20 pages

Cancer

chapter |4 pages

What is cancer?

chapter |3 pages

What causes cancer?

chapter |4 pages

Types of cancer

chapter |3 pages

Detecting cancer

chapter |4 pages

Cancer diagnosis and monitoring

section 2|24 pages

Cancer treatments

chapter |4 pages

How is cancer treatment chosen?

chapter |3 pages

Surgery

chapter |3 pages

Radiotherapy: overview

chapter |3 pages

Radiotherapy: side effects

chapter |3 pages

Chemotherapy: overview

chapter |3 pages

Chemotherapy: side effects

chapter |3 pages

Hormone therapy

section 3|12 pages

Supportive and palliative care

chapter |3 pages

What is palliative care?

chapter |3 pages

Principles of palliative care

chapter |4 pages

Palliative care: who and when?

section 4|20 pages

Cancer pain

chapter |2 pages

What is pain?

chapter |3 pages

What sorts of pain are there?

chapter |4 pages

Drugs used to treat pain

chapter |3 pages

Isn’t morphine dangerous?

section 6|34 pages

Communication

section 7|26 pages

Dying and bereavement

chapter |3 pages

What is loss and grief?

chapter |3 pages

What do I do when a patient dies?

chapter |4 pages

Complicated grief

section 8|16 pages

Spirituality and equality

chapter |3 pages

Fostering hope

chapter |3 pages

What is spirituality?

chapter |4 pages

How can I avoid discrimination?