Understanding Cancer Therapies
Helen S. L. Chan, MD
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A practical and hopeful guide to the many treatments available.
The past two decades have seen major revolutions in cancer therapy and steadily growing hopes for a cure. This book provides an extensive look at the way medical professionals are treating the disease today. Chapters on clinical practice discuss the differing approaches to cancer in adults and in children. The book closes with a survey of experimental therapies and the status of the search for a cure.
Chapters provide
- Principles of disease management
- Biological basis for different therapies
- Explanations of how radiation, chemotherapy, drug treatments, and surgery are done
- Logic behind the therapy choice for different kinds of cancer
- Information about the most current procedures
- Further reading and resources
Dr. Helen S. Chan is a staff hematologist/oncologist and professor at the University of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. Her work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Cancer Research, and other journals.
144 pages
