Everyone's guide to cancer therapy / Malin Dollinger, Ernest H. Rosenbaum, and Greg Cable.
Publication details: Kansas City, Mo. : Andrews and McMeel, c1991.Description: xxiii, 624 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0836224183 (hd) :
- 0836224175 (ppb) :
- QZ 201 D665e 1991 D665e 1991
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 606-607) and index.
Contents
Part 1: Diagnosis And Treatment
1: Understanding cancer
2: How cancer is diagnosed
3: Working with the health care team
Deciding on the appropriate treatment
5: Second opinions
6: What happens in surgery
7: What happens in radiation therapy
8: What happens in chemotherapy
9: What happens in biological therapy and immunotherapy
10: Laser therapy
11: Hyperthermia
12: Cryosurgery
13: Radiofrequency-generated heat treatment (radiofrequency ablation)
14: Antiangiogenesis: inhibition of blood vessel growth as a strategy for treating cancer
15: Bone marrow and blood stem cell transplantation
16: Integrative oncology: complementary therapies in cancer care
17: Blood transfusions and cancer treatment
18: Oncology nursing
Part 2: Supportive Care
19: Living with cancer
20: Coping with the side effects of chemotherapy
21: Fatigue
22: Role of sleep in health, disease, and therapy
23: Maintaining good nutrition
24: Controlling pain
25: Guarding against infections
26: Living with an ostomy
27: Look good-feel better cosmetic program
28: Becoming sexually active again
29: Staying physically fit
30: Home care
31: Palliative care. Part 3: Quality Of Life
32: Will to live
33: Living with mortality: life goes on
34: New hope in managing distress with cancer
35: Survivorship guidelines for cancer patients and their families
36: Late effects of cancer treatment
37: Infertility problems in cancer survivors
38: Cancer and the family's needs
39: Paying for cancer care
40: Managed care and oncology: new ways to deliver health care
41: Planning for the future
Part 4: New Advances In Research, Risk Assessment, Diagnosis, And Treatment
42: Impact of research on the cancer problem: looking back, moving forward
43: Cancer risk assessment, screening, and prevention
44: Investigational anticancer drugs
45: Advances in cancer biology
46: Genetic risk assessment and counseling
47: Cancer information
Part 5: Treating The Common Cancers
Adrenal gland
Anus
Bile duct
Bladder
Brain
Breast
Cancer of an unknown primary site (CUPS)
Carcinoids of the gastrointestinal tract
Cervix
Childhood cancers
Childhood cancers: Brain tumors
Childhood cancers: Retinoblastoma
Childhood cancers: Soft-tissue and bone sarcomas
Colon and rectum
Esophagus
Gallbladder
Gastrointestinal stromal tumor
Head and neck
Kaposi's sarcoma
Kidney
Leukemias
Liver
Lung: Nonsmall cell
Lung: Small cell
Lymphoma: AIDS-associated
Lymphoma: Hodgkin's disease
Lymphoma: Non-Hodgkin's
Melanoma
Mesothelioma
Metastatic cancer
Multiple myeloma
Neuroendocrine (islet cell) tumors of the pancreas
Ovarian germ cell tumors
Ovary
Pancreas
Parathyroid
Penis
Pituitary
Prostate
Sarcomas of bone and soft tissue
Skin
Small intestine
Stomach
Testis
Thymus
Thyroid
Trophoblastic disease
Uterus: Endometrial carcinoma
Uterus: Uterine sarcomas
Vagina
Vulva
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