Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 61 mm x 90 mm
ISBN: 978-0-8144-1356-2
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education
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CONTENTS Author’s Note ix Acknowledgments xi 1 Surviving the System: You’re Fighting More Than an Illness 1 2 The Sudden Cancer Panic Syndrome: Don’t Pay the High Price of Panic 8 3 Your Most Important Relationship: How Your Oncologist Measures Up 16 4 Cooperation and Consensus: Bonding with Your Oncology Team 29 5 Understanding Cancer: It’s Not Just One Disease 39 6 Major Cancer Centers: What Every Patient Should Know 48 7 Insurance Angles: Making the System Work for You 70 8 Chemotherapy, Radiation, Surgery: Innovations, Promises, and Pitfalls 88 9 The Pharmaceutical Industry: Friend or Foe? 105 10 Making Your Own Luck: Tested Ways to Improve Survival Chances 119 11 Back to Your Life: When to Say “Yes” to Travel, Work, Exercise, and Sex 134 12 Supportive Care Insights: How to Better Tolerate Treatment 145 13 Clinical Wisdom: How I Might Do It 156 14 Lymphomas, Myeloma, Leukemias, and Other Blood Cancers: Frequently Overlooked Problems 196 15 The Hospice Dilemma: Why It’s Not Always the Answer 212 16 Hands-On Practical Help and Public Policy Advocacy: How You Can Make a Difference for Cancer Patients 224 Appendix 50 Questions and Answers: What My Patients Ask 243 Resources 254 Index 265 About the Author 274