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Author Buckman, Rob.

Title What you really need to know about cancer : a comprehensive guide for patients and their families / Robert Buckman, in collaboration with the specialists at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center ; foreword by Robert C. Bast, Jr
Published Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

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 MELB  616.994 Buc/Wyr  AVAILABLE
Description xviii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Foreword / Robert C. Bast, Jr. -- Introduction: Why are we So afraid of cancer? -- Ch. 1. What this Book Is all about -- Ch. 2. What Is cancer? -- Ch. 3. How cancer Is caused? -- Ch. 4. An Overview of the most common cancers -- Ch. 5. The main types of conventional treatment -- Ch. 6. Complementary, Alternative, or Unconventional Treatments -- Ch. 7. Cancer, Attitudes, and the mMind -- Ch. 8. Screening, Early diagnosis, and Prevention -- Ch. 9. With So many Breakthroughs, Why's there No Progress? -- Ch. 10. Living with cancer -- App. A. Some commonly Used medical terms and what they mean -- App. B. Commonly asked Questions
Notes Canadian ed. (Key Porter Books, Toronto, 1995) has same title
Bibliography Includes bibliographical reference (pages 337-340) and index
Subject Cancer -- Popular works.
LC no. 97005203
ISBN 0801855934 (paperback: alk. paper)
0801855942 (alk. paper)