Fighting Cancer with Knowledge and Hope : A Guide for Patients, Families, and Health Care Providers.
Frank, Richard C.
Fighting Cancer with Knowledge and Hope : A Guide for Patients, Families, and Health Care Providers. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (278 pages) - Yale University Press Health and Wellness Series . - Yale University Press Health and Wellness Series .
Cover -- 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 -- 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 -- Appendix 2 For More Information -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- E -- G -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- 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.
No detailed description available for "Fighting Cancer with Knowledge and Hope".
9780300156652
Cancer -- Popular works.
Electronic books.
RC263.F695 2009
616.99/4
Fighting Cancer with Knowledge and Hope : A Guide for Patients, Families, and Health Care Providers. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (278 pages) - Yale University Press Health and Wellness Series . - Yale University Press Health and Wellness Series .
Cover -- 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 -- 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 -- Appendix 2 For More Information -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- E -- G -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- 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.
No detailed description available for "Fighting Cancer with Knowledge and Hope".
9780300156652
Cancer -- Popular works.
Electronic books.
RC263.F695 2009
616.99/4