Complications of Cancer Therapy: Best Practices in Prevention and Management

This book covers the diverse complications noted in medical, radiation, surgical and pediatric oncology. The various chapters target the common complications that the clinicians encompass in the practice day in and day out. It assists in identifying/ stratification the patients at higher risk of complications so that they may be offered alternative options or get a de-intensified treatment. It also covers the determinants/predictors-clinical alarm signs or the safety flags associated with specific high-risk procedures. The chapters are designed to offer a preventive strategy to reduce the incidence of complications, such as the early introduction of corrective measures, supportive care measures, and refining the procedure in case of anticipated risk of certain complications. The manual addresses the management strategies of complications and will propose a formulation of treatment policies as per the severity of the disease. Manual includes discussion on evidence-based treatment strategies and recent advances in management. It consists of a summarized algorithm on leadership based on guidelines (if available). Since it is a multimodality approach-based book, it is an exciting read to the students and the practitioners of medical, surgical, radiation, and nursing. It addresses the disclosure of complications and the medicolegally correct way of taking consent for complications.

Chemotherapy and Radiation therapy induced Thrombocytopenia.- Radiation Proctitis after radiation therapy for pelvic malignancies.- Radiation enteritis in patients receiving upper abdominal radiation therapy.- Radiation induced liver disease in patients receiving radiation for hepatobiliary tumours.- Managing Hyperemesis in the era of concurrent or sequential chemoradiation.- Complications of Intravesical Therapy for early bladder tumours.- Predictors and treatment of Platinum induced nephrotoxicity.- Radiation Cystitis after pelvic radiation in survivors of pelvic malignancies.- Pelvic insufficiency syndrome after pelvic radiation encountered after treatment of gynaecological malignancies.- Radiation induced Xerostomia in patient receiving radical radiation therapy to the face and neck.

Dr. Kanika Sood Sharma is a Clinical Lead and Director of Radiation Oncology at Dharamshila Narayana Superspeciality Hospital, New Delhi, with 15 years of experience in the field. She has more than 25 national and international publications to her credit and has delivered numerous oral and posters presentations in multiple international meetings. Dr. Sood has authored chapters in many books (step by step radiation planning. She has been a reviewer to journals- Annals of medicine and Lung India. She is the Joint Secretary of the Oncology Forum of Delhi. She is a DNB teacher and examiner. Dr. Kanika has received the best paper awards   fellowship for doctors aged less than 35 years from AROI & SAARC Federation of Oncology, amongst many other awards.