Understanding Cancer : : a Patient's Guide to Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment
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Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conventional treatments: an overview -- Molecular targeted therapy -- Clinical research trials: what they're all about -- Clinical case studies: four patient stories -- Afterword -- Appendix A. cancer molecular biology -- Appendix B. analyzing cost-effectiveness -- Appendix C. patient's checklist.
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PUBLISHED
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Year Published: 2006
Description: xvii, 206 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0801884179 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801884187 (pbk. : alk. paper)
SUBJECTS
Cancer.
Neoplasms.
Neoplasms -- therapy.