Chapter
Rehabilitation in Cancer
Abstract
Cancer rehabilitation is a process that assists the individual with a cancer diagnosis to obtain optimal physical, social, psychological, and vocational functioning within the limits created by the disease and its treatment.The functional autonomy of patients with cancer is compromised. The severity ranges from negligible to profound at the extremes. Owing to the nature of the cancer trajectory, rehabilitative goals have been divided into …
Authors
Chasen MR; Jacobsen PB
Book title
The MASCC Textbook of Cancer Supportive Care and Survivorship
Pagination
pp. 389-396
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
2010
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4419-1225-1_37