Cancer
Presents essays discussing cancer, including causes, prevention, detection, treatment, and cures.
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| Language: | English |
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Detroit :
Greenhaven Press
c2008
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| Series: | Contemporary issues companion
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Skin cancer and sunlight
- 2. Risk factors for lung cancer
- 3. The role of diet and hormones in breast cancer
- 4. Pancreatic cancer and its many symptoms
- 5. Ovarian cancer and the problem of diagnosis
- 6. Cancer of the lymphatic system
- 7. Chemotherapy
- 8. Radiation therapy
- 9. Treating kids with cancer
- 10. New treatments for breast cancer
- 11. Attacking cancer with vitamin therapy
- 12. Prostate cancer and its treatments
- 13. Unconventional cancer treatments
- 14. Losing a womb, gaining a cause
- 15. A parent's perspective
- 16. Finding faith while cancer spreads
- 17. Surviving non-Hodgkins lymphoma
- 18. An Asian American faces breast cancer
- 19. Blogging a battle with cancer