Book Recommendation: Adverse Reactions to Drug Therapy for Malignant Tumors and Their Management
Drug therapy is one of the main approaches to treating malignant tumors at present, but drug therapy produces all kinds of side effects. Chemotherapy, antibiotics, endocrine drugs, immune agents and targeted drugs all inevitably have side effects; even some drugs used to relieve the side effects of these drugs themselves have certain toxic side effects. Yet tumor patients cannot avoid drug therapy, especially patients with advanced, progressive tumors.
Comprehensive monographs introducing the adverse reactions of malignant-tumor drug therapy are rare; Adverse Reactions to Drug Therapy for Malignant Tumors and Their Management is almost the only Chinese monograph on this topic.
The book Adverse Reactions to Drug Therapy for Malignant Tumors and Their Management is edited by Professor Hu Yanping, chief expert in lung-cancer internal medicine at Hubei Cancer Hospital, with more than ten oncologists long on the clinical front line participating in the writing. It is a monograph on the adverse reactions of drug therapy for malignant tumors.
It is a comprehensive monograph on the adverse reactions of malignant-tumor drug therapy and their clinical management. The content is comprehensive and detailed, covering almost all the drug therapy regimens commonly used by clinical oncologists today. Through this book we can learn not only the history and progress of cancer drug therapy, but also the common side effects that appear when various drugs are used clinically.
The general-theory part of the book introduces the development and progress of malignant-tumor drug therapy and the management of its adverse reactions; the remaining chapters cover respectively the toxic side effects and management of chemotherapeutic drugs, targeted drugs, endocrine drugs, adjuvant tumor therapy drugs, and biological immunotherapy. It is of reference value to clinical workers, patients and patients' families.
It is also very necessary for clinical workers researching TCM treatment of malignant tumors to read this book. Contemporary patients mostly choose integrated Chinese-Western treatment for malignant tumors, and the patients seen by TCM physicians are basically all simultaneously using chemotherapy, targeted drugs, endocrine drugs or biological immune agents. If TCM physicians lack a comprehensive understanding of the toxic side effects of Western drugs, they cannot provide professional help to patients. Moreover, some adverse reactions cannot be handled by Chinese medicine alone; when necessary, patients should be advised to use Chinese and Western medicines together.
I recommend this book to every clinician, researcher, patient and patient's family member interested in tumor treatment. A free e-book version is available for download on WeChat Reading, and printed copies can be purchased on various e-commerce platforms.