The greatest need of anyone with cancer is to understand the
disease -- its diagnosis, treatment options, and the often
devastating experience of having cancer. In Understanding Cancer,
Dr. Norman Coleman explains how to gather information about
different treatments and how to interpret that information to make
decisions. He helps the person with cancer prepare for visits to
doctors and the hospital, and to make those visits as productive as
possible. He distills the often complex medical terms and the
concepts underlying the statistics and percentages used to
characterize medical conditions. With clear, in-depth discussions
of pretreatment staging of disease, the biology of cancer, how
successful treatment is defined, and how best to manage one's time,
Understanding Cancer helps people with cancer become active
participants in the decision-making process.
Today, people with cancer face more alternatives and decisions
than ever before -- a situation that can be daunting, Dr. Coleman
notes, but ultimately empowering. While most doctors try to provide
complete information to their patients, it's impossible for any
health care professional to provide all the detailed information a
patient and family really need to make informed decisions about
treatment. Although this book does not provide recommendations
about a specific medical problem and its treatment, it does explain
how the benefits of treatment are assessed, how to interpret the
results of those assessments, and how to be a full partner in
determining the course of medical treatment. Topics include:
* Diagnosis and Treatment: What You Can Expect
* Cancer: Where Does It Come From?
* Diagnostic Tests and Staging Studies: Gathering
Information
* Making Decisions about Treatment: How Success Is Measured
* Weighing the Long-Term Risks and Benefits of Treatment
* An Overview of Conventional Treatments
* Participating in Research Trials: What They're All About
* Patient Stories: Four Clinical Case Studies
* Patient's Checklist
"Many similar 'how to' guides have preceded this one. But few
have offered the distilled clarity that Norm Coleman offers cancer
patients here. In these pages they will find relief in his
realistic and understandable explanation about the goals of cancer
treatment. He guides the reader through the quagmire of cancer
treatment decision-making by making the patient a part of the
process. This may seem simple to someone who has not had to endure
this exhausting exercise. It is far from simple, and one of Dr.
Coleman's outstanding talents is his ability to simplify complex
information... This book is written by a physician who has devoted
his life to curing the ills of ignorance about cancer. That is his
gift to us, his readers." -- from the Foreword, by Ellen L.
Stovall, Executive Director, National Coalition for Cancer
Survivorship and 26-year cancer survivor
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