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Evaluates the carcinogenic risk to humans posed by chemicals used in plastics and elastomers.

Mindfulness: A Kindly Approach to Being with Cancer offers people with cancer a means to bring mindfulness and kindliness into their lives, to help them cope with the challenge of a life-threatening illness. Adapts Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), an approach with a strong evidence base for people with recurrent depression, for the needs and challenges of people with cancerPresents the standard 8-week course of MBCT for cancer in a flexible format that is designed to suit each reader...

This practical, science-based book focuses on helping partners, family, and friends understand breast cancer. It guides them in how to provide the best emotional and practical support when helping someone with breast cancer to cope, recover, and thrive, while maintaining their own physical and psychological health. The authors translate psychological evidence into concrete, practical advice for caregivers, validated through their first-hand experience. It also suggests ways to help someone with...

Help your patients make the smart choices about complementary therapies! A diagnosis of cancer can have devastating effects – not only physically, but mentally and emotionally as well – leading patients to look for “cures” or relief from the side effects and symptoms that ravage their minds and bodies. Often, your patients will turn to complementary or alternative medicine (CAM), looking for a “safe” or “natural” solution to their ailments. While these treatments may promise relief from pai...

This text provides an overview of the grieving process by introducing the nurse and other health care professionals to some of the more common theories associated with death and dying. Beginning with an overview of the grieving process, different chapters focus on specific stages of grief and emphasis is placed on the role of the nurse in the healing process. Also included in this text is the hospice philosophy which encompasses four dimensions of support - physical, emotional, social and spirit...

1 in 15 men. 1 in 18 women. Every year in the UK 43,000 people are newly diagnosed with bowel cancer. Dr Anisha Patel is one of them. Young, fit, and married to a consultant gastroenterologist and bowel cancer screening specialist, in 2018 she was diagnosed with Stage 3 bowel cancer. Despite being a family doctor, Anisha had no idea what would come next. With the benefit of hindsight, and after first-hand experience, she understands now that the diagnosis is just the beginning, that treatment ca...

This book provides an introduction to the care of the dying and their families, and is a resource for all health care providers who work with dying clients and their families. Approaches for working with children and families of the dying are included. Hospice care as an alternative means of caring for the dying is explored. Material on ethics incorporates the latest thinking on euthanasia, the living will, health proxy directives and organ transplants.

Thirty years ago we knew that retrotransposons made up at least half of our genomes, but little about their role in biology. The human genome has since been sequenced and the position of all retrotransposons in the reference sequence has been determined. However, as of today, the function of retrotransposons still remains elusive. We know much more about the diseases associated with their movement and the host defenses we all have against them.This volume explores an array of diseases in humans...