OncoLink Patient Guide: Colorectal Cancer

OncoLink Patient Guide: Colorectal Cancer on ScienceDirect(Opens new window)
Paperback, 224 Pages
Published: MAY-2005
ISBN 10: 0-7020-2842-8
ISBN 13: 978-0-7020-2842-7
Imprint: SAUNDERS


By
James Metz, MD, Editor-in-Chief, OncoLink; Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Margaret Hampshire, RN, BSN, OCN, Managing Editor, OncoLink, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Description
This book provides you with the essential information that you will need throughout all stages of this disease. Avoiding jargon, it will answer all the questions that you have concerning risk and prevention, screening and diagnosis, through to all the various treatment options available - surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, complementary and alternative therapies - and provides you with day to day lifestyle advice too. Attractively designed and clearly presented you can find quickly all the answers that you are looking for, safe in the knowledge that the information comes from one of the world's leading cancer internet resources - OncoLink. Compiled by international experts, and arranged in a question and answer style, this book is an essential purchase for all colorectal cancer patients, their doctors and their carers.


 
Last update: 5 Nov 2011