Fighting Cancer with Knowledge and Hope : A Guide for Patients, Families, and Health Care Providers
Richard C. Frank
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | New Haven : : Yale University Press, , 2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (278 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""PART I: Exposing Cancer""; ""1 Understanding Cancer""; ""When First Diagnosed: What You Need to Learn""; ""The Three Essential Properties of Cancer""; ""Understanding How Cancer Spreads""; ""2 Diagnosis, Staging, Curability""; ""Making a Diagnosis of Cancer""; ""Determining the Extent or Stage of Cancer""; ""Estimating Curability""; ""3 Understanding Specific Cancers""; ""Carcinomas""; ""Blood and Lymph Cancers""; ""Sarcomas""; ""Brain Tumors""; ""4 Why Cancer Develops""; ""Cancer and the Blueprint for Life""; ""Family Cancers"". - ""Appendix 2 For More Information""""Glossary""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""E""; ""G""; ""I""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""W""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Z"". - ""Cancer and the Environment""""Why Do Only Some People Get Cancer?""; ""PART II: Attacking Cancer""; ""5 How Cancer Grows: The Basis of Cancer Treatments""; ""Cancer Develops over Decades""; ""Cancer Grows by Organized Chaos""; ""Cancer Can Grow Unpredictably""; ""Cancer Is Survival of the Fittest""; ""The Devil Is in the Details""; ""6 Cancer Treatments Revolve around Metastasis""; ""After Surgery: “Why Do I Need Chemo If I�m Cancer Free?�""; ""Eye on the Prize: Complete Cancer Eradication""; ""When Surgery Is Not the First Step""; ""Metastatic Disease: Cure versus Control"". - ""How a Treatment Strategy Is Chosen""""Cancer in the Older Individual""; ""The Role of Surgery in Metastatic Cancer""; ""The Role of Radiation Therapy in Metastatic Cancer""; ""7 Cancer Treatments at Work""; ""A New Era of Hope""; ""Targeting the Lifelines of Cancer""; ""Chemotherapy""; ""Targeted Therapies""; ""Hormone Therapies""; ""Radiation Therapy""; ""Why Do Cancer Treatments Sometimes Fail?""; ""8 Get Prepared to Survive""; ""Survivorship and the Power of People""; ""Survival Is Spelled LMNOP""; ""Final Thoughts""; ""Appendix 1 Types of Cancer Medicine""
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| ISBN | 0-300-15665-0. - 1-282-08972-2. - 9786612089725
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