Fighting cancer with knowledge & hope : a guide for patients, families, and health care providers / Richard C. Frank ; illustrations by Gail V. Parsons.

By:

Frank, Richard C, 1963- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Parsons, Gale V, 1940-2011 [illustrator.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Yale University Press health & wellnessPublisher: New Haven : Yale Univ. Press, [2009]Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 257 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780300156652
0300156650
1282089722
9781282089723
9786612089725
6612089725

Other title:

Fighting cancer with knowledge and hope

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fighting cancer with knowledge & hope.DDC classification:

616.99/4 22

LOC classification:

RC263 .F695 2009eb

NLM classification:

QZ 201

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Contents:

Understanding cancer -- Diagnosis, staging, curability -- Understanding specific cancers -- Why cancer develops -- How cancer grows : the basis of cancer treatments -- Cancer treatments revolve around metastasis -- Cancer treatments at work -- Get prepared to survive.

Summary: Anyone who is diagnosed with cancer receives a frightening blow, and in many cases the diagnosis is accompanied by a bewildering array of treatment choices. In this invaluable book, Dr. Richard C. Frank offers comfort and help to cancer patients, their fa.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-235) and index.

Anyone who is diagnosed with cancer receives a frightening blow, and in many cases the diagnosis is accompanied by a bewildering array of treatment choices. In this invaluable book, Dr. Richard C. Frank offers comfort and help to cancer patients, their fa.