The Comprehensive Cancer Center

This open access book guides hospitals, institutions, and health authorities/departments worldwide in developing a comprehensive cancer care center. Designed to reduce the number of cancer cases and deaths, as well as to improve the quality of life for cancer patients through evidence-based strategies of prevention, comprehensive cancer care centers specialize in early detection, diagnosis, treatment, and palliation. This book provides guidelines for existing centers to upgrade their cancer care structure, practice, policies, and procedures in accordance with current international standards and regulations, as well as instructs in the establishment of new centers. It supplies scalable guidance that applies at a global level for both developed and low income countries. Additional topics include inpatient and outpatient units, staff requirements and training, nursing, radiation therapy, pharmacy support, and home care.

The Comprehensive Cancer Center: Development, Integration, and Implementation is an essential resource for oncology physicians including medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, surgical oncologists, and oncology nurses as well as hospitals, health departments, university authorities, governments and legislators in developed countries or countries with restricted resources.

Written by experts in the field of oncology

Provides an international perspective on oncology treatment and survival

Provides an overview of global standards and regulations

Supplies a step-by-step guide to establishment of new, as well as improvement of existing centers