Full Description
This handy pocket book gives patients with cancer the expert, practical advice they need to deal with the disease and its treatment on a day-to-day basis. Concise chapters offer recommendations on cancer prevention and screening...Managing the side effects of cancer treatment...sexuality issues...physician/ patient interactions...oncologic emergencies...and the safety, benefits, and drawbacks of popular alternative medicine treatments. The book includes lists of useful internet sites and a workbook where patients can write down and organize the information they need to give to their physicians
Contents
Cancer Prevention and ScreeningDealing with the Side Effects of Cancer TreatmentSexuality IssuesPhysician and Patient InteractionsOncologic EmergenciesAlternative MedicineMiscellaneous TopicsInternet Guide to Useful Cancer InformationCancer WorkbookInde