Fighting Cancer with Knowledge and Hope
A Guide for Patients, Families, and Health Care Providers, Second Edition
1st Edition
Published on 11. June 2013
320 pages
978-0-300-19093-9 (ISBN)
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Richard C. Frank
Fighting Cancer with Knowledge and Hope
A Guide for Patients, Families, and Health Care Providers
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07/2013
2nd Edition
Yale University Press
€39.00
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgments
- PART I: Exposing Cancer
- 1 First Steps
- When First Diagnosed: "What Should I Ask?"
- Cancer Pitfalls
- 2 What Is Cancer?
- The Three Essential Properties of Cancer
- Understanding How Cancer Spreads
- 3 Diagnosis, Staging, Curability
- Making a Diagnosis of Cancer
- Determining the Extent or Stage of Cancer
- Estimating Curability
- 4 Understanding Specific Cancers
- Carcinomas
- Blood and Lymph Cancers
- Myeloproliferative Neoplasms
- Sarcomas
- Brain Tumors
- 5 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
- 6 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
- 7 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
- 8 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?
- 9 Personalized Cancer Medicine: Tailoring Treatment to the Patient
- Focus on Prostate Cancer: Targeting Testosterone
- Targeted Approaches in Other Cancers
- Genetic Profiling of Cancer
- 10 Harnessing the Immune System
- Releasing the Brakes on the Immune System
- Cancer, Stress, and the Mind-Body Connection
- Alternative Cancer Therapies
- In Search of Evidence
- 11 Get Prepared to Survive
- Live for Today
- Physical Challenges of Survivors
- Psychological (Emotional) Challenges of Survivors
- Survival Is Spelled LMNOP
- Final Thoughts
- Appendix 1 Types of Cancer Medicine
- Appendix 2 For More Information
- Glossary
- A
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- C
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- I
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- W
- References
- Index
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