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Rapid changes in oncology neccessitate a comprehensive, up-to-date reference for oncology nurses. For seventeen years, best-selling Cancer Nursing: Principles and Practice has filled this need, supplying oncology nurses with cutting-edge, current information. Now, in its Sixth Edition, Cancer Nursing reflects the constantly shifting progress in the science of oncology, as well as emerging new therapies, new treatment modalities, the latest results from clinical trials, updates on new chemotherapeutic agents and targeted therapies, and new perspectives on supportive care. The updated and revised Sixth Edition includes new chapters on the following topics: Screening and Detection for asymptomatic individuals; Hematopoietic growth factors; Complementary and alternative therapies; Distress Symptoms; Cancer Survivorship; Principles, models, history, and issues of end of life and palliative care; Delivery of comfort care; Legal issues in cancer nursing. - Publisher.