Bøger af Bassam Hassan

This book examines supportive and palliative care and quality of life in cancer patients. Chapters address such topics as anxiety, depression, and delirium in terminally ill cancer patients, ethics in palliative care, palliative care medications, assisted suicide and euthanasia, and much more.

Even new developments in the diagnosis and new strategies in the management of breast cancer have succeeded in maintaining, and even reducing breast cancer mortality rates, but breast cancer incidence continues to increase in both developing and developed countries. The present book focuses on the main issues related to breast cancer: diagnosis, mutations in the main genes responsible for most hereditary breast cancer cases in Europe and Asia, and role of molecular markers in breast cancer treatment, in order to help physicians, researchers, and clinicians improve their knowledge of these issues.

Globally, ovarian cancer is found to be one of the major gynaecologic terminal cancers. The main problem associated with ovarian cancer is the lack of an effective and sensitive screening test that can be used to diagnose the cancer at an early stage, which is mainly because of the nature and biologic behaviour of the disease. Another critical issue associated with this type of cancer, is the presence of a high chance for cancer relapse (i.e., recurrence), which in most of the time is associated with chemotherapy resistance. Therefore, this book attempts to present and specify the main tests that can be used to screen and diagnose the cancer and its stage. Moreover, it covers topics related with the main mechanism for relapse occurrence, and the main treatment options available for treatment of relapsed ovarian cancer.