TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kagan,Sarah H.
TI  - Cancer in the Lives of Older Americans: Blessings and Battles
SN  - 9780812202403
AV  - RC281.A34 -- K33 2009eb 
U1  - 618.97/6994 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Cancer-Psychological aspects-United States
KW  - Geriatric oncology-United States
KW  - Older people-Diseases-United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Finding My Way -- 1 Champagne and Hot Dogs -- 2 Being Old, Having Cancer -- 3 Paradox: Cancer and Aging in America -- 4 Scientific Import and Influence -- 5 Language Lessons -- 6 Aesthetics of Being and Having -- Epilogue: Not a Denial of the Fact of Death, a Denial of Death Now -- Postscript: Completed -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments
N2  - Little has been written to guide clinicians, social scientists, families, and individuals about cancer among the "oldest old." In Cancer in the Lives of Older Americans, Sarah H. Kagan approaches this problem from the perspective of more than twenty years of practice, inquiry, and education as a nurse
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