The most comprehensive guide available on hereditary cancers, from understanding risk, prevention, and genetic counseling and testing to treatment, quality of life, and more. Up to 10 percent of cancers are caused by inherited mutations in specific genes. Finding out that you or your loved ones may be at increased risk of developing cancer ......
Presents evidence-based guidance to help partners support their men from diagnosis through survivorship. Prostate Cancer and the Man You Love is fully updated for the women and men who love and support a man with prostate cancer. Written by an expert in supporting men with prostate cancer and their partners, this book describes the ......
Written by a naturopathic physician specializing in complementary cancer care, Breast Cancer provides solutions for maintaining health and improving quality of life during conventional cancer treatment. This valuable guide offers safe and effective tools and practices to support patients through every phase and protocol.
How Bad Policy and Bad Evidence Harm People with Cancer
Each week, people read about new and exciting cancer drugs. Some of these drugs are truly transformative, offering major improvements in how long patients live or how they feel'but what is often missing from the popular narrative is that, far too often, these new drugs have marginal or minimal benefits. Some are even harmful. In ......
Human disease is an elaborate dance between behavior, our environment, and chance. Medicine tries to tame human disease with science, but when our knowledge falls short, disease wins. This is too often the case with cancer. We spend billions of dollars each year trying to better understand it and develop tools to ease its effects.
A visually engaging reference detailing the essential basic and clinical science of all approved, effective, and life-prolonging drug therapies in oncology. Now with a greater emphasis on clinical context, application, and management, this significantly revised edition provides a practical, bench-to-bedside approach and patient-oriented guide.
The second edition of Oncology Clinical Trials has been thoroughly revised and updated and now contains the latest designs and methods of conducting and analyzing cancer clinical trials in the era of precision medicine with biologic agents-including trials investigating the safety and efficacy of targeted therapies, immunotherapies, and ......
Updated and expanded, this second edition of Essentials of Clinical Radiation Oncology provides a succinct and effective review of the most important studies in the field. Organised by disease topic and grouped by body part, each chapter employs structured sections for targeted information retrieval and retention.
This issue of Emerging Cancer Therapeutics provides a comprehensive review for practitioners on the current status of lymphoma subtypes. It includes details the most current management across the spectrum of lymphoma subtypes; expert contributors from across the US and Canada; and multidisciplinary coverage and emphasis on emerging therapeutic ......
