This book is the first volume in an international, multi-contributed series aimed at providing practical, clinical guidance on how to deal with difficult symptoms related to specific cancer sites. Patients with haematological malignancy often undergo the most rigorous treatments, usually requiring long inpatient stays at tertiary referral centres far removed from friends, families, and everyday life. The treatment for some malignancies is palliative, although aggressive, from diagnosis, and there can be a number of difficult symptom-control problems, all of which are covered here. The book dra ... More

This book is the first volume in an international, multi-contributed series aimed at providing practical, clinical guidance on how to deal with difficult symptoms related to specific cancer sites. Patients with haematological malignancy often undergo the most rigorous treatments, usually requiring long inpatient stays at tertiary referral centres far removed from friends, families, and everyday life. The treatment for some malignancies is palliative, although aggressive, from diagnosis, and there can be a number of difficult symptom-control problems, all of which are covered here. The book draws on the expertise of the haematologist, who is vital if the patient is to have optimal care, and provides practical advice in an easily accessible form so that it can be read and referred to on the ward, or before a domiciliary visit.