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Understanding Cancer : A Patient's Guide to Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (229 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801889547
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Understanding CancerDDC classification:
  • 616.99/4
LOC classification:
  • RC263 .C64 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Foreword to the First Edition -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Diagnosis and Treatment: What You Can Expect -- Chapter 2 Cancer: Where Does It Come From? -- Chapter 3 Diagnostic Tests and Staging Studies: Gathering Information -- Chapter 4 Making Decisions about Treatment: How Success Is Measured -- Chapter 5 Weighing the Long-Term Risks and Benefits of Treatment -- Chapter 6 Conventional Treatments: An Overview -- Chapter 7 Molecular-Targeted Therapy -- Chapter 8 Clinical Research Trials: What They're All About -- Chapter 9 Clinical Case Studies: Four Patient Stories -- Afterword -- Appendixes -- A. Cancer Molecular Biology -- B. Analyzing Cost-Effectiveness -- C. Performance Status Scoring Systems -- D. Patient's Checklist -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V.
Summary: Compassionate, accessible, and informative, Understanding Cancer will increase the reader's knowledge of medical concepts and terms so the person with cancer, the family, and the health care team can work together efficiently--and effectively.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Foreword to the First Edition -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Diagnosis and Treatment: What You Can Expect -- Chapter 2 Cancer: Where Does It Come From? -- Chapter 3 Diagnostic Tests and Staging Studies: Gathering Information -- Chapter 4 Making Decisions about Treatment: How Success Is Measured -- Chapter 5 Weighing the Long-Term Risks and Benefits of Treatment -- Chapter 6 Conventional Treatments: An Overview -- Chapter 7 Molecular-Targeted Therapy -- Chapter 8 Clinical Research Trials: What They're All About -- Chapter 9 Clinical Case Studies: Four Patient Stories -- Afterword -- Appendixes -- A. Cancer Molecular Biology -- B. Analyzing Cost-Effectiveness -- C. Performance Status Scoring Systems -- D. Patient's Checklist -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V.

Compassionate, accessible, and informative, Understanding Cancer will increase the reader's knowledge of medical concepts and terms so the person with cancer, the family, and the health care team can work together efficiently--and effectively.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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