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about lung cancer, its causes and complications, diagnosis
and treatment.
LIVING
WITH LUNG CANCER
A Guide for Patients and Their Families
4th
edition
Barbara
G. Cox, David T. Carr, MD, Robert E. Lee, MD
Revision by Eloise Harman, MD
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over 25 years, Living with Lung
Cancer
has been helping patients and their loved ones face the
future with greater hope and confidence.
Lung
cancer is a scary disease. The
new patient is understandably confused and frightened. The
future is uncertain, and it's filled with a dazzling array
of unfamiliar medical and surgical terms and procedures.
Living with Lung Cancer
helps
people cope -- with the disease, it treatments and (maybe
most of all) their nameless fears.
By
interviewing a large number of patients and their spouses,
the authors learned the countless questions they have, including
those that patients find difficult to ask in a doctor's
office.
Living
with Lung Cancer provides easy-to-understand information
about
- Diagnostic
tests
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Treatments and their side effects
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Nutrition
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The likely prognosis
- Coping
with emotions
- Paying
the bills
What
can you do when a friend has lung cancer?
How about giving them a hug . . . and a copy of Living
With Lung Cancer?
Living
with Lung Cancer, 4th ed.
144 pp, illlus., glossary, index
ISBN 0-937404-53-5 (1998), paperback $14.95 |
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1. The Lungs and How They Work
2. How Lung Cancer Begins
3. How Lung Cancer is Diagnosed
4. The Role of Surgery
5. The Role of Radiotherapy
6. The Role of Chemotherapy
7. The Role of Nutrition
8. Coping with the Stresses of Lung Cancer
9. Alternative Therapies
10. Prospects for the Future
Glossary
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Eloise
Harman, M.D.,
author of the revised 4th edition, is professor and chief,
Division of Pulmonary Medicine, at the University of Florida
College of Medicine.
Barbara G. Cox, M.A. is a medical
writer who specializes in patient education.
David T. Carr, M.D., Howe professor
of pulmonary medicine at the MD Anderson Cancer Center,
is retired.
Robert E. Lee, M.D., consultant
in radiation oncology at the Mayo Clinic, is retired.
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| "A
comfortable book that puts an arm around the reader with
warm support." --KENTUCKY MEDICAL JOURNAL
"Answers
every question a patient might have." --ANNALS
OF THORACIC SURGERY
"An
honest look at lung cancer, its causes and complications,
diagnosis and treatment." --COPING MAGAZINE
"A
point of light in a world that has suddenly gone dark with
the diagnosis of lung cancer.--A PATIENT
"Continues
to fill a void in educational materials for patients with
lung cancer." --ONCOLOGY NURSING PRESS
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