What You Really Need to Know About Cancer - Softcover

Buckman, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550136925 ISBN 13: 9781550136920

Publisher: Key Porter Books, 1995

Synopsis

In "What You Really Need to Know about Cancer", Dr. Buckman, a cancer specialist with the University of Toronto, writes a complete guide to cancer, its causes, and its treatment. Aimed at cancer patients, their families and friends, the book explains, in a clear, jargon-free style, what cancer is, how it is caused, and how it behaves. Detailed sections about all of the major types of cancer describe how each may cause symptoms, what factors are important in determining prognosis, and what treatment is available. You will find informative and clear analysis of conventional and complementary medicines, screening and prevention and cancer research. Also, featured is help to open communication (with family, friends and the medical team), and sexuality.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Robert Buckman is a medical cancer specialist and the author of I Don't Know What to Say: How to Help and Support Someone Who Is Dying, and How to Break Bad News: A Guide for Health Care Professionals, the latter available from Johns Hopkins.

Review

"Cancer experts from the renowned M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston have compiled this excellent, comprehensive text that intelligently explains why we fear cancer and what it is... Cancer screening, early diagnosis, prevention, terminology and research breakthroughs are also presented in a remarkably clear manner in this authoritative cancer reference resource."

(Library Journal)

"An excellent book―by far the best of its kind that I have seen. I would not hesitate to recommend it to patients with cancer or their families."

(Dr. Eric Cassell, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center)

Edition details

• Publisher: Key Porter Books
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1550136925
• ISBN 13: 9781550136920
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368