Cancer is a word, not a sentence
Jan 20th 2008PostmasterDiagnosis
This is an other wonderful book that we highly recommend. Described as “A Practical Guide to Help you Through the First Few Weeks”, it is a book that should be given to everyone the day they are diagnosed. It is written in an easy-to-read, highly informative manner to help you cope with the reeling sensation that almost everybody experiences after a diagnosis of cancer.
Written by a medical oncologist, it explains why those feelings of dread and terror are so common, despite the fact that over fifty per cent of all people with a newly diagnosed cancer will be cured. This book will help you understand the basic facts about the two hundred (or more) diseases that make up ‘the cancers’ and will give you a road-map so that you can ask the right questions of your medical team and understand the answers. It will give you a clear and accessible guide to the unfamiliar and daunting territories of diagnosis, staging, treatment and prognosis (among other things).
If explains what the future holds in a straightforward six-step guide. It then goes on to discuss the methods of treatment (surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and biological therapy) and then other major issues such as the effect of the mind and attitude, the popularity of complementary remedies and other subjects.
Dr Robert Buckman is a medical oncologist at the Princess Margaret Hospital, a Consultant in Education and Communication and a professor in the University of Toronto. He appears on television and radio discussing aspects of health, particularly cancer treatments.
One of the really nice things about Dr. Buckman and this book is that a portion of the proceeds from the book goes directly to cancer research!
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