What is included with this book?
List of Online Resources | p. xi |
Preface | p. xv |
Acknowledgments | p. xxiii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Local and Distant Recurrence | p. 5 |
Common Questions about Recurrence | p. 6 |
Predictors of Recurrence | p. 9 |
Recurrence Statistics | p. 20 |
Reducing Chances of Recurrence | p. 24 |
Local and Regional Recurrence | p. 34 |
Distant Recurrence/Metastatic Cancer | p. 42 |
Immediate Concerns and Best Care | p. 51 |
Emotional Self-Care | p. 52 |
Getting the Best Care | p. 56 |
Researching Your Disease and Treatment | p. 68 |
Exploring Treatment Options | p. 72 |
Medical Treatments | p. 83 |
Physical and Emotional Considerations in Determining Treatment | p. 84 |
Local Treatment Aimed at Specific Tumor Sites | p. 89 |
Treatment Aimed at Cancer Cells throughout the Body-Systemic Treatment | p. 93 |
Monitoring Treatment | p. 110 |
Supportive/Palliative Treatment | p. 111 |
Understanding Cancer Development, Treatment, and Emerging Therapies | p. 115 |
Understanding Cancer Development | p. 116 |
How Current Treatments Fight Cancer | p. 129 |
How Targeted Therapies Fight Cancer | p. 134 |
The Future | p. 145 |
Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Care | p. 153 |
Comparison of CAM and Standard Western Medical Practices | p. 155 |
Nature's Pharmacy in Cancer Treatment | p. 157 |
Biologically Based Practices | p. 60 |
Whole Alternative Medical Systems | p. 168 |
Exercise and Manipulative Practices | p. 170 |
Mind-Body Interventions | p. 172 |
Energy Therapies | p. 173 |
Considerations in Using a CAM Practice | p. 175 |
Selecting a Complementary Health-Care Practitioner | p. 180 |
Managing Pain and Understanding the Dying Process | p. 185 |
Pain from Metastatic Cancer | p. 186 |
Describing and Evaluating Pain | p. 188 |
Attacking the Causes and Symptoms of Pain | p. 191 |
Euthanasia and Suicide | p. 196 |
Choices in Dying | p. 200 |
How We Die | p. 203 |
Practical Matters | p. 211 |
Medical Rights | p. 211 |
Paying for and Managing Medical Expenses | p. 219 |
Final Arrangements: Will, Durable Power of Attorney, Advance Directive, Memorial Service | p. 245 |
Emotional and Spiritual Well-Being | p. 263 |
Responding to Loss | p. 264 |
Interrelating with Others: Those You See Occasionally | p. 273 |
Interrelating with Those Closest to You | p. 276 |
At Ease near life's End | p. 283 |
Reflections on Death | p. 293 |
Absolute and Relative Risk | p. 297 |
Diet and Breast Cancer | p. 301 |
CAM Centers | p. 311 |
Glossary of Medical and Scientific Terms | p. 317 |
References | p. 331 |
Index | p. 345 |
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