Tele-oncology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gatti, Giovanna (Editor), Pravettoni, Gabriella (Editor), Capello, Fabio (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: TELe-Health,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Health informatics.; Oncology.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Medical education.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Informatics.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Medical Education.

This book explains how telemedicine can offer solutions capable of improving the care and survival rates of cancer patients and can also help patients to live a normal life in spite of their condition. Different fields of application – community, hospital, and home based – are examined, and detailed...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Overview and Background
• PART I – Fields of application 3 The community: Early diagnosis and prevention
• 4 The hospital: Improving hospital care for people with cancer
• 5 Home-based care for a better quality of life: Treatment, monitoring and follow-up
• PART II – Technical Issues 6 New technologies and new frontiers
• 7 The social web
• PART III – Complex Scenarios and Special Settings
• 8 Rural and extreme rural settings
• 9 Tele-oncology in developing countries
• PART IV – eLearning 10 Education and distant learning
• 11 Health education to improve prevention
• 12 Conclusions.