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The greatest need of anyone with cancer is to understand the disease -- its diagnosis, treatment options, and the often devastating experience of having cancer. In Understanding Cancer, Dr. Norman Coleman explains how to gather information about different treatments and how to interpret that information to make decisions. He helps the person with cancer prepare for visits to doctors and the hospital, and to make those visits as productive as possible. He distills the often complex medical terms and the concepts underlying the statistics and percentages used to characterize medical conditions. With clear, in-depth discussions of pretreatment staging of disease, the biology of cancer, how successful treatment is defined, and how best to manage one's time, Understanding Cancer helps people with cancer become active participants in the decision-making process. Today, people with cancer face more alternatives and decisions than ever before -- a situation that can be daunting, Dr. Coleman notes, but ultimately empowering. While most doctors try to provide complete information to their patients, it's impossible for any health care professional to provide all the detailed information a patient and family really need to make informed decisions about treatment. Although this book does not provide recommendations about a specific medical problem and its treatment, it does explain how the benefits of treatment are assessed, how to interpret the results of those assessments, and how to be a full partner in determining the course of medical treatment. Topics include: * 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 * An Overview of Conventional Treatments * Participating in Research Trials: What They're All About * Patient Stories: Four Clinical Case Studies * Patient's Checklist "Many similar 'how to' guides have preceded this one. But few have offered the distilled clarity that Norm Coleman offers cancer patients here. In these pages they will find relief in his realistic and understandable explanation about the goals of cancer treatment. He guides the reader through the quagmire of cancer treatment decision-making by making the patient a part of the process. This may seem simple to someone who has not had to endure this exhausting exercise. It is far from simple, and one of Dr. Coleman's outstanding talents is his ability to simplify complex information... This book is written by a physician who has devoted his life to curing the ills of ignorance about cancer. That is his gift to us, his readers." -- from the Foreword, by Ellen L. Stovall, Executive Director, National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship and 26-year cancer survivor
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出版社周刊评论
Offering solid, straightforward informationÄnot always in a warm, fuzzy wrappingÄDr. Coleman, chairman of the Joint Center for Radiation Therapy at Harvard Medical School, assists the person who has received a diagnosis of cancer in sorting through all the confusing and possibly conflicting information coming from doctors, friends and the media. First arming the patient with a checklist for recording significant data, Coleman goes step-by-step through the process of diagnosis, explaining the clinical and pathological tests that are needed to identify the cancer's type and stage. Next, he considers the various treatment options, providing a thorough discussion on such aspects as response of the tumor to treatment, duration of that response and the patient's chances of survival and future quality of life. His goal is to help patients understand how risks and benefits are measured in order to work effectively with their doctors in choosing the most appropriate treatment. In the closing chapter, Coleman highlights the case studies of four cancer patients, illustrating how and why individual treatment decisions were reached. Cancer patients who want to be fully informed participants in their own health care will find this a valuable handbook. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Doody 图书评论
Achieving success in cancer care is best accomplished with the active involvement of the patient and family. This book addresses the challenge of educating patients and families about participating in care and decision-making under the intense conditions often associated with a recent cancer diagnosis. As in the previous edition, an experienced radiation oncologist provides up-to-date basic cancer information. The new edition increases the emphasis on clinical trials and covers new treatments targeting specific types of cancer, individualized treatment, and molecular medicine therapies such as biomarkers, novel imaging, molecular signatures and profiling, and molecular-targeted therapy. This is intended to provide the information needed by patients and families to make informed treatment decisions and to increase their comfort level in managing life after a cancer diagnosis. This book would be useful to the cancer patient, as well as to family, friends, and lay and professional caregivers. The author is an expert with over three decades of experience in the field of oncology. The nine chapters cover basic cancer topics such as what cancer is; diagnostic testing and staging; making treatment decisions; conventional treatments; molecular-targeted therapy; weighing risks and benefits; and clinical research trials. The final chapter includes four case studies that illustrate how decision treatments are made. The book also includes an index, bibliography, and four appendixes with information on cancer molecular biology, cost effectiveness, performance status scoring systems, and a patient checklist for recording diagnosis and treatment information. The author has met his goal to create a useful reference that provides cancer patients and their families with the information necessary to take an active role in treatment and management. This well written, up-to-date book is concise and easy to read and understand. Written in everyday language without being overly simplistic, the book provides clear explanations, examples, and practical advice that can serve as a framework for treatment decisions. Cancer is a life-altering experience and this book supports the author's belief that people with cancer can, with the appropriate tools, often lead fuller and more meaningful lives than they did before the diagnosis. Melody L. McKinney, DNS, RN(Indiana State University). Copyright 2007, Doody Enterprises, Inc.
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
As professor of radiation oncology and chair of the Joint Center for Radiation Therapy at Harvard Medical School, Coleman realizes how important it is for cancer patients to understand the terms and concepts used by healthcare professionals. Here he explains such concepts as cancer etiology, diagnostic tests, treatment options, and clinical trialsconcepts that are impossible for health professionals to explain fully during hospital visits and difficult for patients to grasp in times of crisis. Using patient checklists and case studies, Coleman describes the steps involved in the initial diagnosis, staging (the growth pattern of a tumor), and the risks and benefits of different treatments. This information will enable cancer patients to play an active role in determining the right course of medical treatment. A unique book that discusses the clinical aspects of cancer in a nonclinical fashion.Lily Liu, Arkansas Children's Hosp. Lib., Little Rock (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.