Overview
- One of few clinical texts that focus mainly on the psychological impacts of head and neck cancer
- Provides current assessment standards and instruments used to measure/quantify patient quality of life
- Written by experts in the fields of otolaryngology and oncology
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This volume serves to help readers understand and address factors that contribute to the psychological distress and negative self-perception of patients with head and neck cancer to improve their quality of life. It explores many of these issues in depth, such as the trends in diagnosis of head and neck cancer, disfigurement, advances and outcomes associated with minimally invasive surgery, long-term quality of life and functional outcomes, issues related to cancer pain, importance and impact of nutrition, how reconstructive advances effect functional outcomes, the impact of cancer recurrence, and financial consequences of cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Head and Neck Cancer: Psychological and Psychosocial Effects will help otolaryngologists, oncologists, surgeons, psychologists and healthcare professionals define the unique issues associated with the HNC patient population, discuss pertinent data, outline key aspects of high quality care in this population, and to draw attention to necessary future investigations and developments.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Christopher E. Fundakowski, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA
USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Head and Neck Cancer
Book Subtitle: Psychological and Psychosocial Effects
Editors: Christopher E. Fundakowski
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27881-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27880-9Published: 29 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27883-0Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27881-6Published: 28 January 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 234
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Head and Neck Surgery, Oncology, Clinical Psychology