Ovarian Cancer: Your Guide to Taking Control (Patient-Centered Guides) - Softcover

Conner, Kristine; Langford, Lauren

 
9780596500160: Ovarian Cancer: Your Guide to Taking Control (Patient-Centered Guides)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0596500165 ISBN 13: 9780596500160
Verlag: O'Reilly Media, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

This unique guide for ovarian cancer gives women crucial medical information to improve the chance for lengthy remission and cure, as well as emotional support for the journey. Although many ovarian cancers are discovered after they have spread, having information about surgery and best practices can be life-saving. For example, choosing a surgeon from the new specialty of gynecologic oncology for staging and de-bulking surgeries strongly impacts survival. Women need to at least consider newer chemotherapy and biological treatments in research trials. Women also want to hear the stories of others who live with the ambiguity of remission.

Ovarian Cancer includes:

Ten things to know at the time of diagnosis, for optimal outcome

How choosing a gynecologic oncology surgeon impacts survival

When and how you can consider newer treatments, now in clinical trials

Stories of dozens of women living with ovarian cancer, some for many years

"Questions for Your Doctor" for all decision points

A focus on epithelial cancers, the most common and difficult to treat, with additional information on germ cell, sex cord-stromal cell, and low malignant potential ovarian cancers

Noted cancer writer Kristine Conner and patient advocate Lauren Langford provide ovarian cancer patients with a supportive and much-needed resource.

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Medical/health writer Kristine Conner has written extensively about cancer for organizations such as National Cancer Institute and OncoLink. For this book, she works with a wide range of medical sources and ovarian cancer activists. Lauren Langford was an activist for ovarian and breast cancer patients; she was one of the original founders of the Community Breast Health Project in Palo Alto, CA. Lauren died of ovarian cancer after she had gathered together many of the participants in this book and drafted several chapters

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Verlag
O'Reilly Media
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0596500165
ISBN 13 
9780596500160
Einband
Tapa blanda
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
575
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