Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Contributors -- Part I: Background, Evaluation, and Interventions -- 1. Cancer Rehabilitation: Basic Ideas and Principles -- Why Is Cancer Rehabilitation Necessary? -- Logistics of Cancer Rehabilitation -- Helpful Hints -- Suggested Readings -- 2. Exercise -- Description -- Goals of Exercise -- Pre-exercise Medical Assessments -- Exercise Prescription Goals and Guidelines -- Exercise Challenges and Precautions -- Mortality Benefits of Exercise for Cancer Patients -- Helpful Hints -- Useful Consultants -- Summary/Conclusions -- Suggested Readings -- 3. Occupational Therapy -- Description -- Examination -- Factors Affecting Therapy -- Treatment -- Helpful Hints -- Suggested Reading -- 4. Performance Measures -- Description -- Karnofsky Performance Scale -- ECOG Performance Scale -- Get Up and Go Test -- Sock Test -- 6-Minute Walk Test -- Suggested Readings -- 5. Physical Impairments and Guidelines for Therapy Interventions and Assessments -- Impairments -- Guidelines for Therapy Interventions -- Lab values -- Physical performance assessments (normative values as defined in the oncology population) -- 6. Pulmonary Rehabilitation -- Description -- Major Features of a Successful PR Program -- Patient Selection Criteria -- Contraindications to PR -- Goals of PR in the Cancer Patient -- Components of a Comprehensive PR Program -- Potential Therapeutic Adjuncts to PR -- Clinical Outcome Assessment Tools -- Helpful Hints -- Suggested Readings -- Part II: Primary Concerns or Conditions -- 7. Bone Marrow Transplantation -- Description -- Types -- Epidemiology -- BMT Process -- Medical Issues -- Functional Barriers -- Treatment -- Consults -- Prognosis -- Helpful Hints -- Suggested Reading -- 8. Brain: Leptomeningeal Disease -- Description -- Etiology.

Epidemiology -- Pathogenesis -- Risk Factors -- Clinical Features -- Natural History -- Diagnosis -- Differential diagnosis -- History -- Examination -- Testing -- Pitfalls -- Treatment -- Medical -- Surgical -- Exercises -- Consults -- Complications of treatment -- Prognosis -- Helpful Hints -- Suggested Readings -- 9. Brain: Metastatic Tumors -- Description -- Etiology -- Epidemiology -- Pathogenesis -- Risk Factors -- Clinical Features -- Natural History -- Diagnosis -- Differential diagnosis -- History -- Examination -- Testing -- Pitfalls -- Treatment -- Medical -- Surgical -- Exercises -- Consults -- Complications of treatment -- Prognosis -- Helpful Hints -- Suggested Readings -- 10. Brain: Primary Tumors -- Description -- Etiology/Types -- Epidemiology -- Pathogenesis -- Risk Factors -- Clinical Features -- Natural History -- Diagnosis -- Differential diagnosis -- History -- Examination -- Testing -- Pitfalls -- Treatment -- Medical/Surgical/Radiation/Chemotherapy -- Exercises -- Consults -- Prognosis -- Helpful Hint -- Suggested Readings -- 11. Hematologic Cancer -- Description -- Epidemiology -- Pathogenesis -- Clinical Features -- Diagnosis -- Treatment -- Side effects of treatment -- Implications for Rehabilitation -- Rehabilitation concerns -- Helpful Hints -- Suggested Readings -- 12. Metastatic Bone Disease: Physiatric Perspective -- Description -- Epidemiology -- Clinical Features -- Pathogenesis -- Risk Factors -- Diagnosis -- Differential diagnosis -- History -- Examination -- Testing -- Treatment -- Medical -- Surgery -- Prognosis -- Helpful Hints -- Suggested Readings -- 13. Metastatic Bone Disease: Surgical Perspective -- Epidemiology -- Solitary bone lesion -- Pathogenesis -- Diagnosis -- History -- Examination -- Objectives -- Laboratory testing -- Imaging studies -- Treatment -- Systemic therapy for bone metastases.

Impending fracture -- Benefits of prophylactic fixation of impending fractures -- Harington's criteria for prophylactic surgery -- Patient selection for nonoperative versus operative treatment of pathological fracture -- Nonoperative treatment options -- Nonoperative complications -- Goals of surgical treatment -- Surgical options -- Rehabilitation -- Prognosis -- Helpful Hints -- Suggested Readings -- 14. Neurofibromatosis Type 1 and Type 2 -- Description -- Etiology/Types -- Epidemiology -- Risk Factors -- Clinical Features -- Diagnosis -- Differential diagnosis -- History -- Treatment -- Consultations -- Prognosis -- Helpful Hints -- Suggested Readings -- 15. Spinal Cord Compression -- Description -- Etiology/Types -- Epidemiology -- Pathogenesis -- Risk Factors -- Clinical Features -- Diagnosis -- Differential diagnosis -- History -- Examination -- Testing -- Treatment -- Prognosis -- Helpful Hints -- Suggested Readings -- Part III: Cancer- or Treatment-Related Symptoms -- 16. Anemia -- Description -- Etiology/Types -- Epidemiology -- Pathogenesis -- Risk Factors -- Diagnosis -- History -- Examination -- Testing -- Functional impact -- Treatment -- Prognosis -- Helpful Hint -- Suggested Readings -- 17. Anorexia-Cachexia -- Background -- Epidemiology -- Pathogenesis -- Risk Factors -- Diagnosis -- History and examination -- Testing -- Treatment -- Medical -- Counseling -- Complications of treatment -- Helpful Hint -- Suggested Readings -- 18. Asthenia -- Description -- Etiology -- Epidemiology -- Pathogenesis -- Risk Factors -- Clinical Features -- Diagnosis -- Differential diagnosis -- History -- Examination -- Treatment -- Prognosis -- Helpful Hint -- Suggested Readings -- 19. Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction -- Description -- Etiology/Types -- Epidemiology -- Pathogenesis -- Risk Factors -- Clinical Features -- Diagnosis -- History -- Tests.

Treatment -- Medical -- Therapy/rehabilitation -- Prognosis -- Helpful Hints -- Suggested Readings -- 20. Chemotherapy: Cardiomyopathy -- Description -- Etiology -- Epidemiology -- Pathogenesis -- Risk Factors -- Clinical Features -- Diagnosis -- Differential diagnosis -- History -- Examination -- Testing -- Treatment -- Medical options -- Surgery -- Exercise -- Prognosis -- Helpful Hints -- Suggested Readings -- 21. Chemotherapy: Chemobrain -- Description -- Etiology/Types -- Epidemiology -- Pathogenesis -- Risk Factors -- Clinical Features -- Diagnosis -- Differential diagnosis -- History -- Examination -- Testing -- Treatment -- Prognosis -- Helpful Hint -- Suggested Readings -- 22. Chemotherapy: Peripheral Neuropathy -- Description -- Etiology/Types -- Epidemiology -- Pathogenesis -- Risk Factors -- Clinical Features -- Diagnosis -- Differential diagnosis -- History -- Examination -- Testing -- Treatment -- Prognosis -- Helpful Hints -- Suggested Readings -- 23. Cognitive Dysfunction -- Description -- Etiology/Types -- Epidemiology -- Risk Factors -- Clinical Features -- Diagnosis -- Differential diagnosis -- Neuropsychological evaluation -- Treatment -- Prognosis -- Helpful Hints -- Suggested Reading -- 24. Cranial Nerve XI Injury Associated With Radical Neck Dissection -- Description -- Etiology/Types -- Epidemiology -- Pathogenesis -- Clinical Features -- Diagnosis -- Differential diagnosis -- History -- Examination -- Treatment -- Prognosis -- Helpful Hints -- Suggested Readings -- 25. Dyspnea -- Description -- Epidemiology -- Pathogenesis -- Risk Factors -- Clinical Features -- Diagnosis -- Differential diagnosis -- History -- Examination -- Testing -- Treatment -- Prognosis -- Helpful Hints -- Suggested Readings -- 26. Emergency Medical Issues -- Description -- Presenting Signs and Symptoms -- Chest pain -- Dyspnea -- Altered mental status.

Fever and hypotension -- Bleeding -- Cancer-Specific Emergencies -- Metastatic spinal cord compression -- Hypercalcemia of malignancy -- Suggested Readings -- 27. Fatigue -- Description -- Etiology -- Assessment -- Diagnosis -- Differential diagnosis -- Treatment -- Treatment of anemia -- Symptomatic treatment -- Helpful Hints -- Suggested Readings -- 28. Febrile Neutropenia in Acute Leukemia Patients -- Description -- Etiology -- Epidemiology -- Pathogenesis -- Risk Factors (for Febrile Neutropenia) -- Clinical Features -- Diagnosis -- History -- Physical -- Testing -- Treatment -- Prognosis -- Helpful Hints -- Suggested Readings -- 29. Free Tissue Transfer -- Description -- Donor-Site Precautions -- TRAM (transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous) or DIEP (deep inferior epigastric perforators) abdo -- Free fibula osteocutaneous flap donor site -- Anterolateral thigh or gracilis donor site -- Free forearm donor site -- Recipient-Site Precautions -- Breast recipient site -- Head and neck recipient site -- Extremity recipient site -- Helpful Hints -- 30. Gastrointestinal: Constipation -- Definition -- Etiology/Types -- Epidemiology -- Pathophysiology -- Pathogenesis -- Diagnosis -- Differential diagnosis -- History -- Examination -- Testing -- Treatment -- Helpful Hints -- Suggested Readings -- 31. Gastrointestinal: Dysphagia -- Description -- Epidemiology -- Etiology -- Risk Factors -- Signs and Symptoms -- Swallowing Facts Versus Misconceptions -- Diagnosis -- History -- Examination -- Treatment -- Prognosis -- Suggested Readings -- 32. Gastrointestinal: Nutritional and Bowel Management -- Description -- Etiology -- Epidemiology -- Pathogenesis -- Clinical Features -- Treatment -- Helpful Hints -- Suggested Readings -- 33. Gout -- Description -- Etiology -- Epidemiology -- Pathogenesis -- Risk Factors -- Clinical Features -- Symptoms -- Diagnosis.

Differential diagnosis.