Cancer Answers: Encouraging Answers to 25 Questions You Were Always Afraid to Ask [Paperback]

Errol C. Friedberg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1992

This book is a non-technical introduction and basic reference to which cancer patients and their friends and relatives can turn. Dr. Friedberg found that people diagnosed with cancer are faced with a lack of accessible information on various aspects of the disease; what it is, its incidence, how it happens, how it is diagnosed and treated, their chances of survival and what the medical and scientific community are doing about it. These are the questions he addresses in his new book which is intended primarily for people who wish to learn the basic facts about cancer without complicated biological concepts and bewildering medical terminology. Sources of further information, are also given.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 191 pages
• Publisher: W H Freeman & Co (Sd) (September 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0716770237
• ISBN-13: 978-0716770237
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,815,724 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Errol Friedberg was born in South Africa in 1937 and immigrated to the US in 1963. He is a trained pathologist and molecular biologist who works in the field of DNA damage and repair. He published the first textbook on this topic ("DNA Repair") in 1984 and has since contributed two editions of a more comprehensive text ("DNA Repair & Mutagenesis") with multiple co-authors. Friedberg has a passionate interest in the history of molecular biology and related topics. He has published a history of the DNA repair field ("Correcting the Blueprint of Life-An Historical Account of the Discovery of DNA Repair Mechanisms") as well as a book on the writings of James Watson, the famous co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and the author of "The Double Helix", entitled "The Writing Life of James D. Watson". Friedberg is a professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and has documented a history of this institution ("From Rags to Riches: The Phenomenal Rise of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas"). Most recently he has completed an authorized biography of another famous pioneer of molecular biology, Sydney Brenner ("Sydney Brenner: A Biography"). In 1992 Friedberg published a small book on cancer for lay readers ("Cancer Answers-Encouraging Answers to 25 Questions You Were Always Afraid to Ask").

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good if you don't like reading., August 29, 1999

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This review is from: Cancer Answers: Encouraging Answers to 25 Questions You Were Always Afraid to Ask (Paperback)

A good sound, quickie cancer education for the less well informed (and most people are less well informed about cancer than they think). Tells you what a cancer is and how it works, runs down the commonest types, briefly explains staging and treatment, gives some interesting statistics, diplomatically touches upon alternative and psychological curing. The publication date will tell you that the treatment part and some of the recommended medical centers are probably out of date. Will appeal to: people just coming to grips with a diagnosis.

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1.0 out of 5 stars This book should be avoided, February 1, 1998

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This review is from: Cancer Answers: Encouraging Answers to 25 Questions You Were Always Afraid to Ask (Paperback)

This writer is not interested in properly informing or discussing issues. He says in the book that cancer patients - especially those who have been through the mainsdtream mill - should avoid complementary/alternative treatments simply because they (these alternative treatments) will get in the way of them getting used to the idea of dying. Of all the books I read as someone seeking help for my wife who had cancer, this was and remains one of the most disgusting. Let me declare my interests. I am the author of FIGHTING CANCER - A SURVIVAL GUIDE. In the course of researching my book, this book took the prize for being the least informative.