100 Questions & Answers About Brain Tumors [Paperback]

Virginia Stark-Vance (Author), Mary Louise Dubay (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0763723088 | ISBN-13: 978-0763723088 | Publication Date: July 1, 2003 | Edition: 1

Whether You’Re A Newly Diagnosed Brain Tumor Patient, A Survivor, Or A Friend Or Relative Of Either, This Book Offers Help. The Only Text To Provide Both The Doctor’S And Patient’S Point Of View, 100 Questions & Answers About Brain Tumors Gives You Authoritative, Practical Answers To Your Questions About Treatment Options, Post-Treatment Quality Of Life, Sources Of Support, And Much More. The Authors, A Brain Tumor Survivor Teamed With A Neuro-Oncologist Specializing In Brain Tumors, Provide A Comprehensive, Step-By-Step Discussion Of What You Can Expect In The Diagnosis And Treatment Of Brain Tumors, While Providing A Real-Life Understanding Of What These Steps Might Mean For Your Day-To-Day Life. This Book Is An Invaluable Resource For Anyone Coping With The Physical And Emotional Turmoil Of This Frightening Disease.

Product Details

• Paperback: 261 pages
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning; 1 edition (July 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0763723088
• ISBN-13: 978-0763723088
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,699,266 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Virginia Stark-Vance is a practicing physician in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. She grew up in a close-knit community in the Texas Panhandle, and enlisted in the Air Force just out of high school. While working with cryptographic equipment systems, she took college courses at night and flying lessons on the weekends. Following a three-year tour in Germany, she returned to the U.S. to complete her degree in Zoology at the University of Oklahoma. As a third year medical student in the O.U. College of Medicine, she won a coveted Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Scholarship. She spent a year working in the National Institutes of Health's laboratory of W. French Anderson, the leading researcher in human gene therapy. Years later, she returned to NIH as a medical staff fellow in the National Cancer Institute. Over the next three years, she worked with investigators from the NCI and the National Eye Institute, developing a new clinical trial for central nervous system and ocular lymphoma. She developed a passion for treating brain tumor patients, which culminated in her own solo practice in her home state in 2000. Dr. Stark-Vance lectures widely to professional and patient groups on brain tumor treatment. Her book, "100 Questions and Answers about Brain Tumors," published in 2004, was co-authored with her patient, M.L. Dubay. Later in 2004, Dr. Stark-Vance initiated the first clinical trial of Avastin in brain tumor patients. The second edition of her book, again co-authored by M.L., presents the results of her research and discusses other new therapies available for brain tumor patients. Dr. Stark-Vance lives in Fort Worth, Texas and has two children, Ted and Joy.

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5.0 out of 5 stars easy to read info for a stressful situation, February 3, 2009

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If you are already dealing with a stressful illness - you want the information you need presented in an easy-to-understand format. The book is organized from basic to more complicated concepts, and written in a manner that is very supportive, especially for those who are not professionals or familiar with medical terminology.

5.0 out of 5 stars Brain Tumors 101, December 26, 2010

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Educate yourself with the basics so that you and your doctor can understand each other. This book provides you with all the basics you will need to know on your journey, and kept on your shelf, it is also a valuable reference tool. I have loaned mine copy out to help others and also recommended it. It's a hard road to go down, keep yourself in tip-top shape to fight and win.

1.0 out of 5 stars 100 Questions & Answers about Brain Tumors, August 6, 2008

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This book is missing 50 pages!!!! It jumps from question 69 to question 93!!!! TERRIBLE!