100 Questions and Answers About Advanced and Metastatic Breast Cancer
Description
A question and answer guide to advanced and metastatic breast cancer, written by Lillie D. Shockney and Gary R. Shapiro, experts from Johns Hopkins University and Medical Center. This is the second edition, updated and revised.
The book is organized as 100 questions and offers both physician and patient perspectives. It covers diagnosis, treatment options including targeted therapy, quality of life, alternative medicine, and coping strategies, for patients and for the people close to them.
The format means you can look up a single question without reading the book front to back.
Paperback, 152 pages, 6 by 8.9 inches. Published June 2011.
Medical guidance changes over time. Your care team has the most current information for your situation.
Why It Matters
Resources made for this specifically are different in a way that matters. They assume treatment is ongoing rather than finite. They take quality of life seriously as its own subject rather than a footnote to recovery. And they address the questions that come up over years, not just in the first frightening month.
A reference organized by question suits that too. Needs change, and what you want to know in month two is not what you want to know in year three. Being able to look up one thing, put it down, and come back later is more useful than a book that expects to be read once.
It also gives the people around you a way to understand what is happening without asking you to explain it again.
A question and answer guide to advanced and metastatic breast cancer, written by Lillie D. Shockney and Gary R. Shapiro, experts from Johns Hopkins University and Medical Center. This is the second edition, updated and revised.
The book is organized as 100 questions and offers both physician and patient perspectives. It covers diagnosis, treatment options including targeted therapy, quality of life, alternative medicine, and coping strategies, for patients and for the people close to them.
The format means you can look up a single question without reading the book front to back.
Paperback, 152 pages, 6 by 8.9 inches. Published June 2011.
Medical guidance changes over time. Your care team has the most current information for your situation.
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