Drug Delivery in Cancer Treatment III: Home Care Symptom Control, Economy, Brain Tumours (Eso Monographs (European School of Oncology))

This Monograph focuses on home care in drug delivery to can- cer patients. The implications of this treatment are dis- cussed in terms of quality of life, curative or supportive potential, medical technology and education. The importance of cost assessments and benefits evalutation of existing treatment alternatives is underlined and exemplified by a recent project providing complex cancer therapy as home care. palliative symptom control, home parenteral nutrition and techniques for therapeutic anticancer drug monitoring are reviewed separately. Ongoing basic and clinical research in drug design and drug delivery to brain tumours provides a model for future cancer treatment and completes this multi- disciplinary volume.