Covering everything from cancer causes and risks, screening and diagnostic tests, and treatment strategies to coping tips and quality of life issues, a comprehensive guide for anyone with cancer provides crucial resources to deal with their illness. 75,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.
| ||||||||||||
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Authored by the former chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society and two medical journalists, this wonderful contribution to cancer literature defines cancer, discusses treatment options and coping strategies, describes advancing illness and special needs, and provides an encyclopedia of common and uncommon cancers. Appendixes include directories of resources and cancer information online. Also furnished are questions for patients to ask their caregivers and information on how to deal with the healthcare system. Mallin Dollinger's Everyone's Guide to Cancer Therapy (Andrews & McMeel, 1994. 2d ed.) encompasses more information about individual cancers; it also includes additional therapies, such as laser surgery and hyperthermia, not found here. However, the currency of the information and the American Cancer Society's name will make this an essential complement to Dollinger.
-?Janet M. Schneider, James A. Haley Veterans Hosp., Tampa, Fla.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
-?Janet M. Schneider, James A. Haley Veterans Hosp., Tampa, Fla.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
When the doctor says you have cancer, what is your reaction? Probably fear, perhaps even panic. When he then says you have, specifically, T-cell chronic lymphoid leukemia, that may sound like so many words in a foreign language. The American Cancer Society proffers this book to help you respond as a rational, informed person. It explains the language of cancer and basic screening, diagnostics, and tests for cancer. It considers who gets cancer, when they get it, and if it is known, why, then turns to treatment strategies and pain management, which are discussed at length, always clearly and sensitively; some of the best sections are on coping with the various aspects of living that cancer affects. After these expository sections comes a 170-page, alphabetical "Encyclopedia of Common and Uncommon Cancers." Each entry in it explains who is at risk for that type of cancer and the tests, signs and symptoms, treatments, survival prospects, and special needs associated with it and concludes with excellent counsel on what to "Ask About" the particular disease (indeed, the book stresses throughout the importance of asking questions until satisfactory answers are given). Appendixes list specialized hospitals and institutions and sources of further information and explain how to obtain cancer information online. William Beatty
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best book for understanding cancer and its treatment,
By A Customer
This review is from: American Cancer Society's Informed Decisions: The Complete Book of Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recovery (Hardcover)
My son was recently diagnosed with desmoplastic small round-cell tumors and I wanted to learn everything I could about cancer. I looked at many of the hundreds of books available. Informed Decisions was far and away the best book. It provided complete information from diagnosis, to understanding what cancer is, to the various treatment options and their risks versus benefits, to building a support network. This book gave me everything I needed in one place to answer my many questions. Half the battle with cancer is understanding what is going on and what is going to happen. Being educated about cancer makes it easier to deal with the many health professionals involved in the treatment process. If you're going to buy one book about cancer, Informed Decisions is the one! I give it a 10
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Resource!,
This review is from: American Cancer Society's Informed Decisions: The Complete Book of Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recovery (Hardcover)
I received this book as a gift when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. However, I found the book to be even more valuable after I was finished with my treatments. Once you've had cancer, I think it's normal to worry about the cancer coming back, especially during the first couple of years. To help deal with the fear of recurrence, I used ACS's Informed Decisions to learn about signs and symptoms of other types of cancer. The book is very informative and helped me deal with common aftereffects of cancer.
4 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
INCOMPLETE, Biased book,
By Patricia Joy (CA) - See all my reviews The Role of the ACS in the War Against Cancer The verdict is unassailable. The American Cancer Society bears a major responsibility for losing the winnable war against cancer. The launching of the 1971 War Against Cancer provided the ACS with a well-exploited opportunity to pursue it own myopic and self-interested agenda. Its strategies remain based on two lies -- that there has been dramatic progress in the treatment and cure of cancer, and that any increase in the incidence and mortality of cancer is due to aging of the population and smoking while denying any significant role for involuntary exposures to industrial carcinogens in air, water, consumer products and the workplace. Most of the funds raised by ACS go to pay overhead, salaries, fringe benefits, and travel expenses of its national executives in Atlanta. They also go to pay Chief Executive Officers, who earn six-figure salaries in several states, and the hundreds of other employees who work out of some 3,000 regional offices nationwide. The typical ACS affiliate, which helps raise the money for the national office, spends more than 52 percent of its budget on salaries, pensions, fringe benefits, and overhead for its own employees. Salaries and overhead for most ACS affiliates also exceeded 50 percent, although most direct community services are handled by unpaid volunteers. DiLorenzo summed up his findings by emphasizing the hoarding of funds by the ACS. "Most contributors believe their donations are being used to fight cancer, not to accumulate financial reserves. More progress in the war against cancer would be made if they would divest some of their real estate holdings and use the proceeds -- as well as a portion of their cash reserves -- to provide more cancer services." Aside from high salaries and overhead, most of what is left of the ACS budget goes to basic research and research into profitable, patented cancer drugs. The current budget of the ACS is $380 million and its cash reserves approach one billion dollars. Yet its aggressive fund-raising campaign continues to plead poverty, and lament the lack of available money for cancer research, while ignoring efforts to prevent cancer by phasing out avoidable exposures to environmental and occupational carcinogens. Meanwhile, the ACS is silent about its intricate relationships with the wealthy cancer drug industry and chemical industries. Read more....... http://www.corporations.org/cancer/boycottacs.html
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
