Complete Cancer Survival Guide: The Most Comprehensive, up-to-Date Guide for Patients and Their Families : with Advice from Dozens of Leading Cancer Specialists at More Than 30 Major Cancer Centers Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Complete Cancer Survival Guide: The Most Comprehensive, up-to-Date Guide for Patients and Their Families : with Advice from Dozens of Leading Cancer Specialists at More Than 30 Major Cancer Centers Book

At age 51, Peter Teeley, former press secretary to George Bush, was given a 50-50 chance of surviving his stage III colon cancer. Like most newly diagnosed cancer patients, he knew little about the disease and less about possible treatments. He tenaciously sought out information and saved his own life. Now he and medical writer Philip Bashe spare others from having to start their own cancer treatment investigation from scratch. "When faced with the most critical consumer decision of their lives, the majority of cancer patients accept without question the recommendation of the doctor who diagnosed the disease," write the authors. "Eighty-five percent of the time, that person is not an oncologist, a specialist in the detection and treatment of cancer." This leads to a substantial risk of substandard care, according to the National Cancer Policy Board. The solution? Take charge, with the help of the comprehensive information here. Learn all you can about your disease, its staging and treatments (25 different cancers are covered here). Seek out clinical trials. Get an independent second opinion. Investigate cancer-treatment facilities. Learn about medications for pain and nausea. Learn how dietary changes, stress management, and support services can help you. Make your medical insurance work for you. There's an immense amount of practical, clearly written, well-organized, illustrated information in this book, and it's enhanced by anecdotes from Teeley's personal story. Everything you need is here: lists of top cancer centers and support groups (with phone numbers and Web sites), definitions of all terms, instructive charts and boxes, questions to ask, questions you're likely to be asked, and a ton of information about how you can help yourself. Everything You Must Know and Where to Go for State-of-the-Art Treatment of the 25 Most Common Forms of Cancer declares The Complete Cancer Survival Guide's cover, and this 950-page book lives up to its claim. The foreword is by former president George Bush, whose daughter died of pediatric leukemia. --Joan PriceRead More

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    As far as Peter Teeley and his doctors knew, the fifty-one-year-old father of four was slated to undergo a routine appendectomy. When he awoke from surgery, he found his wife sitting at the foot of his hospital bed, bearing devastating news: What had appeared on the MRI scan was not an inflamed appendix but in fact stage III colon cancer. This was the beginning of Peter Teeley's battle against the disease. What he learned about the most effective ways to combat any type of cancer is the subject of Fight for Your Life.

    Fight for Your Life will save lives because it shows patients and families how to take an active role in combatting cancer. Studies show that most people don't receive state-of-the-art treatment because of either doctors' personal biases for or against certain treatments, insufficiently equipped hospitals, physicians' lack of experience, and insurance companies' growing tendency to refuse certain types of treatments. Fight for Your Life gives readers the information they need to make the best possible decisions in their fight against cancer.

    Readers will find empowerment, hope, and comfort in Fight for Your Life's message. Learning about the disease and making the most informed decisions possible will not only improve your quality of life during the illness and bring peace of mind knowing that you're doing everything in your power to help yourself-it will also improve your chances of survival.

  • 0385486057
  • 9780385486057
  • Teeley Peter; Bashe Phili
  • 1 May 2003
  • Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 992
  • 1
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