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Biological Psychiatry of Cancer and Cancer Treatment provides the reader with expert guidance on how to prevent, detect and manage the ´organic´ psychiatric disorders experienced by people with cancer.

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As long-term cancer survival becomes a widely-shared experience, the quality of life of people living with and beyond a cancer diagnosis is increasingly important. Optimising the prevention and treatment of any psychiatric consequences of certain tumours and treatments is now central to high-quality cancer care.

Biological Psychiatry of Cancer and Cancer Treatment provides the reader with expert guidance on how to prevent, detect and manage the ´organic´ psychiatric disorders experienced by people with cancer. Containing 13 chapters on topics from ´Surgery and Radiotherapy´, and ´Hormone and Cytokine treatments´ to ´Clinical Psychiatric Assessment of Patients with Cancer´ this unique resource offers readers with fully up-to-date and high-quality information on how to enhance the quality of
life for patients living with, and beyond cancer.

Offering a unique approach to oncology and psycho-oncology, Biological Psychiatry of Cancer and Cancer Treatment is an invaluable resource for academic psychiatrists, liaison psychiatrists, neuropsychiatrists, Oncologists, neuro-oncologists, palliative medicine doctors and drug development scientists.

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Dr Hodgkiss studied medicine at Trinity College, University of Cambridge and Guy´s Hospital Medical School, University of London. His postgraduate training in psychiatry was on the Guy´s rotation, including 3 years as Clinical Lecturer in Biological Psychiatry at the National Unit for Affective Disorders. He then trained as a Lacanian psychoanalyst and, with a Wellcome Fellowship at University College London, wrote an MD thesis about the history of chronic pain,
later published as a single-author monograph, From Lesion to Metaphor (2000). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2008.
Dr Hodgkiss has worked clinically with people affected by cancer for over twenty years. He was a Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist at St Thomas´ Hospital for 17 years before moving to The Royal Marsden Hospital in 2014 to specialise in the psychiatry of cancer. Dr Hodgkiss recently co-chaired the mental health & psychology pathway group at London Cancer Alliance.

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