Supportive Care Strategies : Optimizing Transplant Care

This book provides up-to-date, clinically relevant information on a range of complex issues relating to supportive care strategies in hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) recipients. Among the topics addressed are the prevention, recognition, and treatment of transplant-related side effects, management of pretransplant comorbidities, supportive care in specific age groups, quality of life issues in patients who experience graft versus host disease, mental and spiritual health care, caregiver support strategies, and end of life care. The aim is to supply hematologists, HCT specialists, oncologists, and palliative care physicians with practical knowledge that can be immediately applied to the benefit of patients. The book’s format, with concise, non-exhaustive coverage of topics and inclusion of numerous working tables, algorithms, and figures, ensures that it will also serve hematology and oncology trainees as a robust and engaging tool to aid vital activities during daily work. The authors are world-renowned experts in the field of Hematopoietic transplantation and palliative care who offer well-reasoned opinions based on their own experiences and draw attention to relevant results from potentially high-impact clinical trials.