Control of Alimentary Symptoms in Far Advanced Cancer

This subject is approached from the perspective of care in the hospice setting, and the authors are experienced in hospice care, based on British experiences and written primarily for a British audience.

Abstract

This subject is approached from the perspective of care in the hospice setting, and the authors are experienced in hospice care. It is based on British experiences and written primarily for a British audience. Thus, included as an appendix is a "limited list of drugs" (Britain). A quarter of the pages are devoted to two of the 15 chapters, on nausea and vomiting and constipation. Although the introduction points out that this is the companion volume toSymptom Control in Far Advanced Cancer: Pain Relief(1983), they devote 35 additional pages to the topic of pain with an orientation toward the alimentary system. Those three chapters constitute one third of the book. The style of this book is largely anecdotal, with specific case reports illustrating the types of management advocated by the authors. Each paragraph deals briefly with physiology and pathology. The dominant portion of each chapter discusses practical steps