The most complete sourcebook for cancer information. Contents: Facing the diagnosis -- Searching for answers on the Web -- Choosing your doctor and hospital -- What is cancer? -- Cancer controversies : what you need to know and do -- How cancers are diagnosed -- Treatment -- Surgery -- Radiation treatment -- Chemotherapy -- New advances and investigational treatments -- Understanding complementary and alternative treatments -- Breast cancer -- Prostate cancer and other male cancers -- Lung cancer -- Gastrointestinal and urinary cancers -- Skin cancer -- Adult leukemia -- Hodgkin's Disease, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and multiple myeloma -- Gynecological cancers -- Bone and soft-tissue sarcomas -- Cancer of the brain and spinal cord -- Head and neck cancers -- When a child has cancer -- Dictionary of unusual cancers -- When cancers recur or metastasize -- Living with cancer -- Where to get help.
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