Full Description
Sleep and Cancer compiles novel information on the interactions between sleep and cancer. The book highlights how prevention and treatment of sleep disturbances in clinical cancer practice helps prevent the onset of tumors and their comorbidities, both short- and long-term. It analyzes how sleep disorder treatment improves the response to antitumor therapy in the long term, presenting procedures regarding cognitive-behavioral therapy of sleep disorders that are often overlooked in the oncological field.
In addition, the book suggests new therapeutic approaches in oncology that are based on the knowledge of sleep mechanisms, such as chronotherapy, use of melatonin as an adjuvant in chemo- and radiotherapy, and orexinergic drugs.
Contents
1. Sleep Disorders and Cancer: State Of The Art
2. Hypothalamic and physiological regulation of sleep in cancer
3. The effects of orexins on tumors
4. Bidirectional interactions between sleep and cancer in neurodevelopment
5. Epidemiology of Sleep Duration and Cancer Risk
6. Role of Circadian Rhythms in Carcinogenesis
7. Interconnections between Nocturnal Respiratory Disorders and Cancer
8. Interaction between Oropharyngeal Cancer, Pain, Insomnia and Sleep Breathing Disorders
9. Insomnia and cancer
10. Functions of melatonin in carcinogenesis and in the management of cancer therapies
11. Applications of cognitive-behavioral therapy for the treatment of sleep disorders in cancer patients and importance of measurement of sleep
12. Chronotherapy in Oncology: New Therapeutic Horizons Through the Modulation of Circadian Rhythms
13. Chrononutrition and sleep: a new approach to prevent carcinogenesis?
14. Future therapeutic perspectives concerning the study of sleep and cancer
