Hope for Cancer Patients at All Stages of illness (Paperback or Softback)

Throughout his decades as a practicing oncologist, Dr. Radha Vemuri treated patients with all types of cancer at all stages of illness. He learned that every patient needs more than just state of the art medicine whether at the beginning or final stages of cancer and at every point in between. All patients need hope!

From hope comes the fortitude to fight for life and the peace to face whatever the future brings, whether it be balancing treatment with other activities or end-of-life concerns.

Cancer patients often find themselves overwhelmed and this book shows how hope can be maintained throughout cancer treatment from diagnosis through whatever the end result may be.

After receiving his own advanced cancer diagnosis, Radha personally tested the effectiveness of his longstanding philosophy and is now able to express the necessity of hope from both a patient’s and physician’s points of view.

Radhakrishna (Radha) Vemuri, M.D. was a practicing oncologist for thirty-five years. He was raised in Hyderabad, India, where he attended Osmania Medical College and graduated at the top of his class. He followed this up with an internship in India before immigrating to the United States in 1971.He settled in Kalamazoo to start a practice and raise a family with his wife, Karen. Prior to his retirement in 2011, Dr. Vemuri held the position of Clinical Professor of Medicine at the College of Human Medicine of Michigan State University and served as the medical director of the West Michigan Cancer Center from its founding in 1994 until his retirement.In 2018, Dr. Vemuri became a cancer patient as well as a cancer doctor and now applies the same principles of hope and life balance to the management of his own condition.