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Ovarian Cancer Kristine Conner

Ovarian Cancer By Kristine Conner

Ovarian Cancer by Kristine Conner


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This guide for ovarian cancer offers women medical information to improve the chance for remission and cure, as well as emotional support for the journey. Although many ovarian cancers are discovered after they have spread, having information about surgery and best practices can be life-saving.

Ovarian Cancer Summary

Ovarian Cancer: Your Guide to Taking Control by Kristine Conner

This guide for ovarian cancer offers women crucial medical information to improve the chance for lengthy remission and cure, as well as emotional support for the journey. Although many ovarian cancers are discovered after they have spread, having information about surgery and best practices can be life-saving. For example, choosing a surgeon from the new specialty of gynecologic oncology for staging and de-bulking surgeries strongly impacts survival. Women need to at least consider newer chemotherapy and biological treatments in research trials. Women also want to hear the stories of others who live with the ambiguity of remission. The book includes: ten things to know at the time of diagnosis, for optimal outcome; how choosing a gynecologic oncology surgeon impacts survival; when and how you can consider newer treatments, now in clinical trials; stories of dozens of women living with ovarian cancer, some for many years; a Questions for Your Doctor section for all decision points; and a focus on epithelial cancers, the most common and difficult to treat, with additional information on germ cell, sex cord-stromal cell, and low malignant potential ovarian cancers. Noted cancer writer Kristine Conner and patient advocate Lauren Langford provide ovarian cancer patients with a supportive and much-needed resource.

About Kristine Conner

Medical/health writer Kristine Conner has written extensively about cancer for organizations such as National Cancer Institute and OncoLink. For this book, she works with a wide range of medical sources and ovarian cancer activists. Lauren Langford was an activist for ovarian and breast cancer patients; she was one of the original founders of the Community Breast Health Project in Palo Alto, CA. Lauren died of ovarian cancer after she had gathered together many of the participants in this book and drafted several chapters

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GOR002866803
9780596500160
0596500165
Ovarian Cancer: Your Guide to Taking Control by Kristine Conner
Used - Very Good
Paperback
O'Reilly Media
20030101
575
N/A
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