a guide for patients, families, and health care providers /
Richard C. Frank ; illustrations by Gail V. Parsons.
New Haven :
Yale Univ. Press,
[2009]
1 online resource (xviii, 257 pages) :
illustrations.
Yale University Press health & wellness
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-235) and index.
Understanding cancer -- Diagnosis, staging, curability -- Understanding specific cancers -- Why cancer develops -- How cancer grows : the basis of cancer treatments -- Cancer treatments revolve around metastasis -- Cancer treatments at work -- Get prepared to survive.
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Anyone who is diagnosed with cancer receives a frightening blow, and in many cases the diagnosis is accompanied by a bewildering array of treatment choices. In this invaluable book, Dr. Richard C. Frank offers comfort and help to cancer patients, their fa.