RT Book, Section
A1 Witgert, Mariana E.
A1 Wefel, Jeffrey S.
A2 Duffy, James D.
A2 Valentine, Alan D.
SR Print(0)
ID 1125785760
T1 Neurobehavioral Side Effects of Cancer and Cancer Therapy
T2 MD Anderson Manual of Psychosocial Oncology
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071624381
LK hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1125785760
RD 2024/04/24
AB Advances  in  multimodal  therapy  have  resulted  in  increased  success  in  the  management  of  many  cancers.  However,  as  many  anticancer  therapies  are  not  highly  specific,  healthy  tissues  are  also  placed  at  risk.  While  traditional  measures  of  treatment  outcome  have  generally  focused  on  survival  time,  progression-free  survival,  tumor  response,  and  physiological  toxicities,  additional  indices,  including  cognitive  functioning  and  quality  of  life,  are  receiving  increasing  recognition  as  important  and  viable  clinical  endpoints.  The  following  chapter  presents  evidence  regarding  the  presence  and  nature  of  cancer-  and  treatment-related  neurobehavioral  symptoms  in  adult  cancer  patients  as  well  as  information  regarding  the  interventions  that  are  currently  being  employed  against  those  side  effects.