Concise Clinical Oncology or Safe Kids

Concise Clinical Oncology

Author: Clive Peedell

Cancer will affect at least one in three of the population. CONCISE CLINICAL ONCOLOGY gives an accurate, reader-friendly overview of the modern management of cancer in the UK. The book contains appendices with information on radiation tolerance of normal tissues, an a-z of commonly used chemotherapy drugs, useful cancer-related websites, and definitions of performance status.
• Part One introduces the challenge that the cancer problem poses to the NHS, and then goes on to describe the general principles of modern oncology, including basic cancer biology, pathology, surgery, radiotherapy, systemic therapy, radiology, palliative care, clinical trials and screening.
• Part Two is an A-Z of chapters on individual cancers. Each chapter contains sections on background information (including epidemiology, pathology and prognosis), presentation, diagnosis and staging, management, future perspectives and problems in advanced disease (related to the specific cancer type).
• Part Three concentrates on more general complications in cancer and the main oncology emergencies.

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Safe Kids: A Complete Child-Safety Handbook and Resource Guide for Parents

Author: Vivian Kramer Fancher

With immunization against major childhood diseases widely available, parental concerns in the nineties are focused on safety issues. A handbook and working reference for parents of children from birth through high school. Using positive guidelines rather than a list of do's and don'ts, the book will help you provide your child with a sense of security and the ability to act and react in challenging situations. Topics covered include school, street, transportation, recreation and medical safety, spending time at home alone, sexual abuse and more. Parents and children will learn how to handle the hazards of today's complex world.

Library Journal

An amazing amount of clear, common-sense information is packed into this safety book for parents and others working with children from infant to high-school age. Chapters focus on identification, on school and street safety, on caregivers, on medical, fire, recreational, cycle, and transportation safety, on sexual abuse, and more. All have checklists and additional current resources. Drugs are not covered, but good sources for information on this subject are included. Because of the checklist format, parents will perhaps prefer to purchase this, but public libraries will find it useful, too.-- Annette V. Janes, Hamilton Lib., Mass.

Table of Contents:

Identification and Personal Records.
School Safety.
Street Smarts.
Caregivers.
Home Alone.
Around the Home.
``Reach Out and Touch''.
Medical Safety.
Sexual Abuse.
Transportation Safety.
Cycle Safety.
Recreation Safety.
Odds 'N Ends (A Safety Potpourri).
Parent's Safety Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.