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• Title:Understanding cancer : a patient's guide to diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment / C. Norman Coleman ; foreword by Ellen L. Stovall.
  
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• Author/Creator:Coleman, C. Norman.
  
• Published/Created:Baltimore, MD : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
  

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  • Call Number: QZ201 .C644 1998
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Cancer--Popular works.
  
• Medical Subjects: Neoplasms--Popular Works.
  
• Description:x, 176 p. : illustrations.
  
• Summary:"In Understanding Cancer, Dr. Coleman explains how to gather and interpret information about different treatments and how to use that information to make decisions. He helps the person with cancer to prepare for visits to doctors and the hospital and to make those visits as productive as possible. He defines key medical terms and explains the concepts underlying the statistics and percentages used to characterize medical conditions. And he describes the steps involved in diagnosis, staging, and treatment so that patients can understand what they are likely to be doing at different times and in different settings."--BOOK JACKET.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0801860199 (alk. paper)
  0801860202 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Foreword / Ellen L. Stovall
  Ch. 1. Diagnosis and Treatment: What You Can Expect
  Ch. 2. Cancer: Where Does It Come From?
  Ch. 3. Diagnostic Tests and Staging Studies: Gathering Information
  Ch. 4. Making Decisions about Treatment: How Success Is Measured
  Ch. 5. Weighing the Long-Term Risks and Benefits of Treatment
  Ch. 6. Conventional Treatments: An Overview
  Ch. 7. Clinical Research Trials: What They're All About
  Ch. 8. Clinical Case Studies: Four Patient Stories
  App. A. Studying Genes
  App. B. Analyzing Cost-Effectiveness
  App. C. Patient's Checklist.