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The Death of Cancer

Author : Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., M.D.
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
ISBN 13 : 0374714177
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Death of Cancer written by Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., M.D. and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cancer touches everybody’s life in one way or another. But most of us know very little about how the disease works, why we treat it the way we do, and the personalities whose dedication got us where we are today. For fifty years, Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr. has been one of those key players: he has held just about every major position in the field, and he developed the first successful chemotherapy treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a breakthrough the American Society of Clinical Oncologists has called the top research advance in half a century of chemotherapy. As one of oncology’s leading figures, DeVita knows what cancer looks like from the lab bench and the bedside. The Death of Cancer is his illuminating and deeply personal look at the science and the history of one of the world’s most formidable diseases. In DeVita’s hands, even the most complex medical concepts are comprehensible. Cowritten with DeVita’s daughter, the science writer Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn, The Death of Cancer is also a personal tale about the false starts and major breakthroughs, the strong-willed oncologists who clashed with conservative administrators (and one another), and the courageous patients whose willingness to test cutting-edge research helped those oncologists find potential treatments. An emotionally compelling and informative read, The Death of Cancer is also a call to arms. DeVita believes that we’re well on our way to curing cancer but that there are things we need to change in order to get there. Mortality rates are declining, but America’s cancer patients are still being shortchanged—by timid doctors, by misguided national agendas, by compromised bureaucracies, and by a lack of access to information about the strengths and weaknesses of the nation’s cancer centers. With historical depth and authenticity, DeVita reveals the true story of the fight against cancer. The Death of Cancer is an ambitious, vital book about a life-and-death subject that touches us all.

Cancer and Death

Author : Leah Vande Berg
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
ISBN 13 : 9781572738515
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book Cancer and Death written by Leah Vande Berg and published by Hampton Press (NJ). This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Leah Vande Berg had experienced abdominal cramps and some bloating for a few weeks and assumed she just had a minor bladder infection or gastrointestinal problem. But when she and her husband Nick Trujillo went to the hospital, they learned that Leah had Stage IV ovarian cancer and might have months to live. Their world would never be the same." "In this book, Leah and Nick tell the story of their lives together and about how their love for each other sustained them during Leah's 14-month ordeal with the disease. It is one of the most honest accounts ever written about cancer, death, grief and life."--BOOK JACKET.

The Cancer Atlas

Author : Ahmedin Jemal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781604432282
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book The Cancer Atlas written by Ahmedin Jemal and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This atlas illustrates the latest available data on the cancer epidemic, showing causes, stages of development, and prevalence rates of different types of cancers by gender, income group, and region. It also examines the cost of the disease, both in terms of health care and commercial interests, and the steps being taken to curb the epidemic, from research and screening to cancer management programs and health education.

Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death

Author : Norman Straker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0765709651
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death written by Norman Straker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment, Dr. Norman Straker proposes that "death anxiety" is responsible for the American society's failure to address costly futile care at the end of life; more specifically, doctors default on the appropriate prescription of palliative care because of this anxiety. This leads to unnecessary suffering for terminally-ill patients and their families and significant distress for physicians. To address these challenges in the culture of medical education, increased psychological support for physicians who treat dying patients is necessary. Additionally, physicians need to reach a consensus regarding the discontinuation of active treatments. Psychoanalysts have traditionally denied the importance of death anxiety and report relatively few treatment cases of dying patients in their literature. This book offers multiple treatment reports by psychoanalysts that illustrate the effectiveness and value of a flexible approach to patients facing death. The psychoanalytic reader is expected to gain a greater level of comfort with facing death and is encouraged to consider making themselves more available to the ever-increasing population of cancer survivors. Further, psychoanalysts are encouraged to be more useful partners to the oncologists that are burdened by the irrational feelings of all parties.

Cancer Control Opportunities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030913398X
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Cancer Control Opportunities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-01-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cancer is low or absent on the health agendas of low- and middle-income countries (LMCs) despite the fact that more people die from cancer in these countries than from AIDS and malaria combined. International health organizations, bilateral aid agencies, and major foundations—which are instrumental in setting health priorities—also have largely ignored cancer in these countries. This book identifies feasible, affordable steps for LMCs and their international partners to begin to reduce the cancer burden for current and future generations. Stemming the growth of cigarette smoking tops the list to prevent cancer and all the other major chronic diseases. Other priorities include infant vaccination against the hepatitis B virus to prevent liver cancers and vaccination to prevent cervical cancer. Developing and increasing capacity for cancer screening and treatment of highly curable cancers (including most childhood malignancies) can be accomplished using "resource-level appropriateness" as a guide. And there are ways to make inexpensive oral morphine available to ease the pain of the many who will still die from cancer.

The Cancer Industry: Crimes, Conspiracy and The Death of My Mother

Author : Mark Sloan
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0994741871
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book The Cancer Industry: Crimes, Conspiracy and The Death of My Mother written by Mark Sloan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By the time you're done reading this book, you'll know: if surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy are effective treatments for cancer; if cancer screening programs save lives or result in mass over-diagnosis and over-treatment; if the cancer industry has suppressed cures or effective treatments from the public"--Back cover.

Dying to Be Me

Author : Anita Moorjani
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1401937527
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Dying to Be Me written by Anita Moorjani and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "I had the choice to come back ... or not. I chose to return when I realized that 'heaven' is a state, not a place" In this truly inspirational memoir, Anita Moorjani relates how, after fighting cancer for almost four years, her body began shutting down—overwhelmed by the malignant cells spreading throughout her system. As her organs failed, she entered into an extraordinary near-death experience where she realized her inherent worth . . . and the actual cause of her disease. Upon regaining consciousness, Anita found that her condition had improved so rapidly that she was released from the hospital within weeks—without a trace of cancer in her body! Within this enhanced e-book, Anita recounts—in words and on video—stories of her childhood in Hong Kong, her challenge to establish her career and find true love, as well as how she eventually ended up in that hospital bed where she defied all medical knowledge. In "Dying to Be Me," Anita Freely shares all she has learned about illness, healing, fear, "being love," and the true magnificence of each and every human being!

Living and Dying with Cancer

Author : Angela Armstrong-Coster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521546676
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book Living and Dying with Cancer written by Angela Armstrong-Coster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-24 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the impact of cancer on those with the disease and the people around them.

Enduring Cancer

Author : Dwaipayan Banerjee
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478012218
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Enduring Cancer written by Dwaipayan Banerjee and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Enduring Cancer Dwaipayan Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi's urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as patients and families negotiate an overextended health system unequipped to respond to the disease. Owing to long wait times, most urban poor cancer patients do not receive a diagnosis until it is too late to treat the disease effectively. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the city's largest cancer care NGO and at India's premier public health hospital, Banerjee describes how, for these patients, a cancer diagnosis is often the latest and most serious in a long series of infrastructural failures. In the wake of these failures, Banerjee tracks how the disease then distributes itself across networks of social relations, testing these networks for strength and vulnerability. Banerjee demonstrates how living with and alongside cancer is to be newly awakened to the fragility of social ties, some already made brittle by past histories, and others that are retested for their capacity to support.

The Death of a Cancer Patient

Author : Kyle J Kostic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692101308
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Death of a Cancer Patient written by Kyle J Kostic and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first-person articulation of how a man with a terminal cancer diagnosis used the combination of mediation, psychology, and medical marijuana to transform himself into the best shape of his life after both chemotherapy and radiation treatments failed. After being told he did not have any treatment options left by his doctors, author Kyle Kostic intuitively and serendipitously created this method, which he is ultimately stating with great humility is the cure to not only Stage IV Squamous Cell Carcinoma and metastasized Lung Cancer (both of his diagnoses), but to all forms of cancer. This was not a school project, a work project, or even his life's work. His life literally depended on getting this right. He documented his story from beginning to end, and is continuously refining his work in real time on his blog as well as on his social media accounts. The intention of him writing this book is to provide this information to other cancer patients and their families, in an attempt to prevent them from experiencing both the emotional and physical pain that the modern cancer treatment protocol consists of. Thank you for your consideration. Love, Anonymous

Epidemiologic Methods

Author : Noel S. Weiss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199718164
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Epidemiologic Methods written by Noel S. Weiss and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Epidemiologic Methods offers a rigorous introduction to the concepts and tools of epidemiologic research. Aimed chiefly at future epidemiologists, the book offers clear descriptions, practical examples, and question/answer sections for each of the science's key concepts. Authored by two award-winning epidemiology instructors, this book is ideally suited for use as a text in a graduate-level course sequence in epidemiologic methods. The book's chapters are organized around three main themes: general concepts and tools of epidemiology; major study designs; and special topics, including screening, outbreak investigations, and use of epidemiology to evaluate policies and programs. With additional exercises at the end of each chapter and expanded attention to topics such as confounding, this new edition of Epidemiologic Methods is an indispensable resource for the next generation of epidemiologic study.

Comprehensive Cervical Cancer Control

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
ISBN 13 : 9241547006
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Comprehensive Cervical Cancer Control written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most women who die from cervical cancer, particularly in developing countries, are in the prime of their life. They may be raising children, caring for their family, and contributing to the social and economic life of their town or village. Their death is both a personal tragedy, and a sad and unnecessary loss to their family and their community. Unnecessary, because there is compelling evidence, as this Guide makes clear, that cervical cancer is one of the most preventable and treatable forms of cancer, as long as it is detected early and managed effectively. Unfortunately, the majority of women in developing countries still do not have access to cervical cancer prevention programmes. The consequence is that, often, cervical cancer is not detected until it is too late to be cured. An urgent effort is required if this situation is to be corrected. This Guide is intended to help those responsible for providing services aimed at reducing the burden posed by cervical cancer for women, communities and health systems. It focuses on the knowledge and skills needed by health care providers, at different levels of care.

Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Author : Yujin Hoshida
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030215407
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Hepatocellular Carcinoma written by Yujin Hoshida and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current limitations and unmet needs in Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. It also provides newly emerging concepts, approaches, and technologies to address challenges. Topics covered include changing landscape of HCC etiologies in association with health disparities, framework of clinical management algorithm, new and experimental modalities of HCC diagnosis and prognostication, multidisciplinary treatment options including rapidly evolving molecular targeted therapies and immune therapies, multi-omics molecular characterization, and clinically relevant experimental models. The book is intended to assist collaboration between the diverse disciplines and facilitate forward and reverse translation between basic and clinical research by providing a comprehensive overview of relevant areas, covering epidemiological trend and population-level patient management strategies, new diagnostic and prognostic tools, recent advances in the standard care and novel therapeutic approaches, and new concepts in pathogenesis and experimental approaches and tools, by experts and opinion leaders in their respective fields. By thoroughly and concisely covering whole aspects of HCC care, Hepatocellular Carcinoma serves as a valuable reference for multidisciplinary readers, and promotes the development of personalized precision care strategies that lead to substantial improvement of disease burden and patient prognosis in HCC.

Cancer Survival Guide

Author : Charlotte Libov
Publisher : Humanix Books
ISBN 13 : 1630060143
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Cancer Survival Guide written by Charlotte Libov and published by Humanix Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cancer Survival Guide will lead you through what will undoubtedly be the most crucial healthcare decisions you'll ever make. This definite manual to understanding, managing and preventing the diseases offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date information. Rely on the Cancer Survival Guide to address every facet of this illness that not only affects the sufferer's physical well-being and lifestyle, but one whose reverberations are also felt emotionally and spiritually, impacting family, friends, and caregivers alike.

Healing Children's Grief

Author : Grace Hyslop Christ
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195105919
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Healing Children's Grief written by Grace Hyslop Christ and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author "relates the powerfully moving stories of eighty-eight families and their 157 children (ages 3 to 17) who participated in a parent-guidance intervention through the terminal illness and death of one of the parents from cancer."--Cover.

Reducing Tobacco-Related Cancer Incidence and Mortality

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309264049
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Reducing Tobacco-Related Cancer Incidence and Mortality written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in United States, causing more than 440,000 deaths annually and resulting in $193 billion in health-related economic losses each year-$96 billion in direct medical costs and $97 billion in lost productivity. Since the first U.S. Surgeon General's report on smoking in 1964, more than 29 Surgeon General's reports, drawing on data from thousands of studies, have documented the overwhelming and conclusive biologic, epidemiologic, behavioral, and pharmacologic evidence that tobacco use is deadly. This evidence base links tobacco use to the development of multiple types of cancer and other life-threatening conditions, including cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. Smoking accounts for at least 30 percent of all cancer deaths, and 80 percent of lung cancer deaths. Despite the widespread agreement on the dangers of tobacco use and considerable success in reducing tobacco use prevalence from over 40 percent at the time of the 1964 Surgeon General's report to less than 20 percent today, recent progress in reducing tobacco use has slowed. An estimated 18.9 percent of U.S. adults smoke cigarettes, nearly one in four high school seniors smoke, and 13 percent of high school males use smokeless tobacco products. In recognition that progress in combating cancer will not be fully achieved without addressing the tobacco problem, the National Cancer Policy Forum of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) convened a public workshop, Reducing Tobacco-Related Cancer Incidence and Mortality, June 11-12, 2012 in Washington, DC. In opening remarks to the workshop participants, planning committee chair Roy Herbst, professor of medicine and of pharmacology and chief of medical oncology at Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital, described the goals of the workshop, which were to examine the current obstacles to tobacco control and to discuss potential policy, outreach, and treatment strategies that could overcome these obstacles and reduce tobacco-related cancer incidence and mortality. Experts explored a number of topics, including: the changing demographics of tobacco users and the changing patterns of tobacco product use; the influence of tobacco use on cancer incidence and cancer treatment outcomes; tobacco dependence and cessation programs; federal and state level laws and regulations to curtail tobacco use; tobacco control education, messaging, and advocacy; financial and legal challenges to tobacco control efforts; and research and infrastructure needs to support tobacco control strategies, reduce tobacco related cancer incidence, and improve cancer patient outcomes. Reducing Tobacco-Related Cancer Incidence and Mortality summarizes the workshop.

The Emperor of All Maladies

Author : Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439170916
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Emperor of All Maladies written by Siddhartha Mukherjee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.