Foreword | p. ix |
Preface | p. xiii |
Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
Exposing Cancer | |
Understanding Cancer | p. 3 |
When First Diagnosed: What You Need to Learn | |
The Three Essential Properties of Cancer | |
Understanding How Cancer Spreads | |
Diagnosis, Staging, Curability | p. 23 |
Making a Diagnosis of Cancer | |
Determining the Extent or Stage of Cancer | |
Estimating Curability | |
Understanding Specific Cancers | p. 54 |
Carcinomas | |
Blood and Lymph Cancers | |
Sarcomas | |
Brain Tumors | |
Why Cancer Develops | p. 85 |
Cancer and the Blueprint for Life | |
Family Cancers | |
Cancer and the Environment | |
Why Do Only Some People Get Cancer? | |
Attacking Cancer | |
How Cancer Grows: The Basis of Cancer Treatments | p. 117 |
Cancer Develops over Decades | |
Cancer Grows by Organized Chaos | |
Cancer Can Grow Unpredictably | |
Cancer Is Survival of the Fittest | |
The Devil Is in the Details | |
Cancer Treatments Revolve around Metastasis | p. 129 |
After Surgery: "Why Do I Need Chemo If I'm Cancer Free?" | |
Eye on the Prize: Complete Cancer Eradication | |
When Surgery Is Not the First Step | |
Metastatic Disease: Cure versus Control | |
How a Treatment Strategy Is Chosen | |
Cancer in the Older Individual | |
The Role of Surgery in Metastatic Cancer | |
The Role of Radiation Therapy in Metastatic Cancer | |
Cancer Treatments at Work | p. 159 |
A New Era of Hope | |
Targeting the Lifelines of Cancer | |
Chemotherapy | |
Targeted Therapies | |
Hormone Therapies | |
Radiation Therapy | |
Why Do Cancer Treatments Sometimes Fail? | |
Get Prepared to Survive | p. 191 |
Survivorship and the Power of People | |
Survival Is Spelled LMNOP | |
Final Thoughts | |
Types of Cancer Medicine | p. 205 |
For More Information | p. 209 |
Glossary | p. 213 |
References | p. 219 |
Index | p. 236 |
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