Oral Complications of Cancer and its Management

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Oral Complications of Cancer and its Management

Edited by Andrew Davies and Joel Epstein

Abstract

This resource focuses on the unique set of oral symptoms that occur in cancer patients, and provides an international, multi-professional reference with up-to-date, evidence-based, clinically relevant advice. It covers topics such as oral anatomy and physiology, oral assessment and oral hygiene, and surgical, radiotherapy and chemotherapy side effects are detailed. Additionally, there are chapters addressing the needs of specific groups of patient (e.g. paediatric patients, patients with advanced cancer), and the health economic impact of oral complications.

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Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Feb 2010

Print ISBN-13:: 9780199543588

Published online:: May 2013

DOI:: 10.1093/med/9780199543588.001.0001

Authors

Andrew Davies, editor Consultant in Palliative Medicine, The Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, UK

Joel Epstein, editor Professor, Oral Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Dentistry and Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery and Cancer Center, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, USA

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Front Matter
- Preface
- Contributors
Chapter 1 Introduction Andrew Davies and Joel Epstein
Chapter 2 The oral cavity Anita Sengupta and Anthony Giles
Chapter 3 Oral assessment Michael Brennan and Peter Lockhart
Chapter 4 Common oral conditions Katherine Webber and Andrew Davies
Chapter 5 Pretreatment screening and management Peter Stevenson-Moore, Debbie Saunders, and Joel Epstein
Chapter 6 Oral hygiene Petrina Sweeney and Andrew Davies
Chapter 7 Oral cancer Crispian Scully and Jose Bagan
Chapter 8 Other tumours of the oral cavity Barbara Murphy, Jill Gilbert, and Anderson Collier III
Chapter 9 Overview of complications of oral surgery Antonia Kolokythas and Michael Miloro
Chapter 10 Overview of complications of radiotherapy (radiation therapy) Kate Newbold and Kevin Harrington
Chapter 11 Trismus Pieter Dijkstra and Jan Roodenburg
Chapter 12 Post-radiation osteonecrosis (osteoradionecrosis) of the jaws Fred Spijkervet and Arjan Vissink
Chapter 13 Overview of complications of systemic chemotherapy Douglas Peterson and Rajesh Lalla
Chapter 14 Oral complications of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation Sharon Elad, Judith Raber-Durlacher, and Michael Y. Shapira
Chapter 15 Oral mucositis Stephen Sonis and Nathaniel Treister
Chapter 16 Bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaws James Sciubba and Joel Epstein
Chapter 17 Oral infections – introduction Susan Brailsford and David Beighton
Chapter 18 Oral fungal infections Lakshman Samaranayake and Mohaideen Sitheeque
Chapter 19 Oral bacterial infections Anthony Chow
Chapter 20 Oral viral infections Deborah Lockhart and Jeremy Bagg
Chapter 21 Salivary gland dysfunction Andrew Davies
Chapter 22 Taste disturbance Carla Ripamonti and Fabio Fulfaro
Chapter 23 Halitosis Stephen Porter
Chapter 24 Orofacial pain Paul Farquhar Smith and Joel Epstein
Chapter 25 Miscellaneous oral problems Andrew Davies
Chapter 26 Oral care in paediatric cancer patients Alessandra Majorana and Fulvio Porta
Chapter 27 Oral supportive care and the geriatric oncology patient Ira R. Parker, Joanne E. Mortimer, and Joel Epstein
Chapter 28 Oral care in advanced cancer patients Andrew Davies
Chapter 29 Quality of life and health economics Jennifer Beaumont, David Cella, and Joshua Epstein
Chapter 30 Sources of information Andrew Davies, and Joel Epstein
End Matter
- Index

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