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This guide helps recently diagnosed patients answer pressing questions, such as How far advanced is the disease? What tests are involved? and What treatments will be recommended? and understand the often confusing and intimidating medical jargon. In addition, this fully updated second edition is a quick, reliable reference to the most current procedures and treatment options.
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My name is Frank Kalman. In 2001 I became what I call an Accidental Expert on Cancer. My 12 year old daughter, Calli, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma and our family began a long journey to seek a cure for her. While my family's story involves a parent's fight for his daughter's survival, the information contained here will be helpful to both children and adults diagnosed with cancer, their families, caregivers, and loved ones. I am a dad, not a doctor,...
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From a young age, we are taught to seek guidance from those who are more knowledgeable than ourselves. Doctors, surgeons, and nurses have all been educated in their specific fields, but this doesn't always make them experts.
Over the past five years, Theresa Errante-Parrino has dealt with cancer. Here she records her breast cancer story, sharing behind-the-scenes details of her personal experiences. From dealing with difficult doctors to adjusting...
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Long days, important decisions, difficult conversations. A doctor's work is never truly done. After working as a pediatric oncologist for 40 years, Dr. Michael Weiner has collected a multitude of stories. From the best-case scenarios to the worst, Dr. Weiner has chosen to share some of the most memorable and heartbreaking moments of his career. Always in close contact with pain and heartbreak, his accounts express his willingness to help patients...
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Drawn from the author's web site where he posts a monthly blogatorial, this breast cancer expert tackles the major controversies in multiple specialties that deal with prevention and early detection of breast cancer. Exposing inconsistencies and illogical conclusions as a function of human bias is a common thread in the essays, stoking the fires of controversy in radiology, screening epidemiology, research breast imaging, pathology, surgery, pharmacologic...
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A journey of survival! On August 1 2019, Francisca heard the words that no one ever wants to hear come out of their doctor's mouth: "You have cancer." She knew from that moment on, that her life would never be the same. But, contrary to what you may think, her life actually got better! In Francisca's story "How I Conquered Breast Cancer without Chemotherapy: My Journey from a Mess to a Message", she wants to share with you her journey from being a...
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Lliçó magistral llegida en el solemne acte d'obertura del curs 2014-2015. Ana Lluch, catedràtica de Medicina en la Facultat de Medicina i Odontologia de la Universitat de València i cap del Servei d'Hematologia i Oncologia de l'Hospital Clínic Universitari, ha estat l'encarregada de la lliçó magistral llegida en el solemne acte d'obertura del curs 2014-2015 sota el títol «Nous reptes en el tractament i la investigació del càncer», que...
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¿Qué es el cáncer? ¿Siempre se necesita una biopsia? ¿Porqué se comporta de esa manera? ¿Es posible imaginar en un futuro una humanidad libre de cáncer? ¿Tengo cáncer porque hice algo mal? ¿El tumor puede tener un origen psicológico? ¿Como sé si el tumor está diseminado? ¿Qué nuevos tratamientos existen? ¿ Siempre se usa quimioterapia? ¿El tumor puede volver a aparecer? ¿Se le puede decir a un paciente la verdad? ¿Le interesa...
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Desde la bomba atómica en 1945 hasta la terapia génica, Francisco Barriga nos conduce por la fascinante historia de los hitos que han configurado lo que hoy conocemos como trasplante de médula ósea, historia protagonizada por gigantes de la medicina, muchos de ellos conocidos por el autor, que empujaron esta disciplina desentrañando una biología muy compleja, y muchas veces incomprendidos por sus coetáneos. Pero el libro no solo es historia...
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Maladie sournoise, le cancer du sein touche plus de la moitié de la population, et pour ainsi dire toutes les familles. Mais, parce que c'est une maladie complexe, elle reste mal comprise et on a tendance à oublier les progrès énormes accomplis ces dernières années par la recherche scientifique. Le docteur André Robidoux, qui a dirigé des recherches impliquant des milliers de patientes, est bien placé pour expliquer au grand public la maladie...
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This book provides a guide to the diagnosis and management of melanoma. Clinical cases are examined to give the reader an understanding of new diagnostic tools including total body photofinders, two photon excitation florescence microscopy and confocal microscopy. Each case is presented in relation to immunotherapy and quality of life and examines the therapeutic outcomes of newly introduced therapies.
Clinical Cases in Melanoma highlights evidence-based...
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This book provides patients and their physicians (especially "non-oncologist" health care providers) with a clear and concise introduction to cancer immunotherapy, which, unlike traditional forms of cancer therapy, acts by boosting the patient's own immune system to fight cancer. The unique features of cancer immunotherapy make its management, monitoring and side-effects different from those of traditional cancer therapy. Especially novel are the...
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This book provides a guide to the diagnosis and management of pigmentary disorders. Each chapter explores a different clinical case to give the reader an interdisciplinary understanding of treatment options. Particular attention is given to the treatment of hypopigmentation, hypomelanosis and discoloration with cases highlighting the effects of drug intake, genetic alterations and the polluted environment.
Clinical Cases in Pigmentary Disorders examines...
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La onicocriptosis y sus patologías asociadas es una de las afecciones de la uña que con mayor frecuencia se ve en la consulta de atención primaria (1) y pese a que la incidencia en la población Española no se conoce con precisión debido a la falta de una base de datos específica para esta patología, se estima que solamente en el Reino Unido aparecen 10.000 nuevos casos al año, unos 20 de cada 100.000 pacientes visitados en las consultas de...
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Devastating. There's no other word to describe the feeling when you or someone you love is diagnosed with cancer. On any given day, you might rotate between feelings of disbelief, anger, and grief. You may even feel like you've lost control over your own life.
While your diagnosis might raise any number of negative feelings, here's the good news: you don't have to feel lost or confused. In Cancer: The Journey from Diagnosis to Empowerment, Dr. Paul...
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What if the worst thing that's ever happened to you was actually the greatest blessing you've ever received? When Logan Sneed was diagnosed with stage-4 brain cancer, he used a diagnosis that's usually a death sentence as a springboard for the life of his dreams. No obstacle--not even cancer--would stop him from creating the life he wanted. In Thank You, Cancer, Logan shares every thrilling victory and gutting setback from his remarkable journey to...
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Slow growing brain tumours change lives forever.
This readable and moving non-technical guide is about living with a low grade tumour, a diagnosis given to thousands of people every year.
Featuring dozens of personal testimonies from those dealing daily with the impact of their tumours, this book offers information, support and reassurance for those with a low grade brain tumour, their family and friends.
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This book provides a concise, step-by-step guide to accurate microscopic diagnosis for clinicians who deal with patients with breast lesions. The emphasis is on a practical approach to dealing with breast biopsies and reaching a diagnosis. It outlines the procedures used for the microscopic diagnosis of various breast lesions and the significance of the nomenclature and terms used in pathology reports, including those dealing with uncommon or rare...
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Did you know that, in the U.S., approximately 15,000 children and adolescents will be diagnosed with cancer this year and nearly 1,500 will not survive?
Most people never hear about cases of children getting cancer, let alone suppose that the numbers in those statistics would be so high. The lack of widespread awareness about the impact of pediatric cancer on patients, families, and the healthcare system is disturbing, but author Jina Park is trying...
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