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Recommended Books on Ovarian Cancer
Myths & Facts About Ovarian Cancer : What You Need to Know, 2nd Edition Each book in the Myths & Facts series is written in clear and simple language by leading U.S. cancer specialists to dispel the many myths that surround cancer. Instead, this handbook offers solid insight about the disease and facts for individuals faced with ovarian cancer diagnosis. The book is carefully illustrated and punctuated with patients' comments. Readers will become familiar with the most current cancer screening and diagnostic techniques, treatment options, potential outcomes, support information, and more. Cancer patients, who are often asked to make quick decisions amid intense personal crises, will find the information needed to make rational decisions throughout the course of therapy. Ideal for patients and their families, doctor's offices and waiting rooms, clinics, and libraries.
Ovarian Cancer: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Medicine) (Methods in Molecular Medicine) Over one hundred well-respected scientists comprehensively review every aspect of the biology underlying ovarian cancer and present a remarkably detailed collection of easy-to-follow methods for illuminating basic mechanisms underlying all forms of cancer. Here today's investigators will find the broadest imaginable array of molecular biology techniques specially designed to determine not only tumor genetics, expression, and protein function, but also to elucidate the genetic mechanisms by which gene and immunotherapies may be perfected. Versatile and comprehensive, Ovarian Cancer Methods and Protocols constitutes a veritable treasury of well-proven expert methods that will help basic scientists and clinical researchers alike master the powerful technologies required for effective cancer research today.
Ovarian Cancer - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to ovarian cancer. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources. The book is designed for physicians, medical students preparing for Board examinations, medical researchers, and patients who want to become familiar with research dedicated to ovarian cancer. If your time is valuable, this book is for you. First, you will not waste time searching the Internet while missing a lot of relevant information. Second, the book also saves you time indexing and defining entries. Finally, you will not waste time and money printing hundreds of web pages.This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to ovarian cancer. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources. The book is designed for physicians, medical students preparing for Board examinations, medical researchers, and patients who want to become familiar with research dedicated to ovarian cancer. If your time is valuable, this book is for you. First, you will not waste time searching the Internet while missing a lot of relevant information. Second, the book also saves you time indexing and defining entries. Finally, you will not waste time and money printing hundreds of web pages.
Living with Ovarian Cancer: A Time for Truth, Hope and Love Nina Davidson Arnold weaves a positive and uplifting tale of her five-and-a-half year journey while undergoing continuous treatment for ovarian cancer. The elegant and thoughtful prose merges notations from eleven daily journals kept over the years of treatment. As the story unfolds it exposes the highs and lows of living in spite of the disease. The daily journals were an incentive to help her endure the over-whelming odds she faced with cancer, while allowing her to appreciate life through her faith and constant encouragement from her husband, family and friends. Her courage, faith, strength, and will to live give meaning to life while bringing a sense of normalcy.
Cancer of the Ovary (Contemporary Issues in Cancer Imaging) Ovarian cancer is the most common and lethal gynecological malignancy, partly because the majority of patients present with advanced disease. Nevertheless, the management of patients with ovarian neoplasms has changed substantially in recent years, with improved survival due to better screening strategies, major advances in chemotherapy and the constantly evolving role of surgery. Optimal patient care is best achieved by a multidisciplinary team, with imaging playing a pivotal role. The explosion of technological developments in imaging in recent years has meant that all members of the team should understand the potential applications, limitations and advantages of evolving imaging techniques. Each volume in Contemporary Issues in Cancer Imaging - A Multidisciplinary Approach is edited by an expert guest editor with contributions from all members of the multidisciplinary team, thus bringing together expertise from many specialties to promote the understanding and application of modern imaging in overall patient management.
100 Q&A About Ovarian Cancer Covers a wide range of topics, including ovarian cancer; risk factors, diagnosis, treatment and side effects; and strategies for coping with emotional and healthcare issues.
Views from the Other Side of the Looking Glass : Reflections on My Journey with Ovarian Cancer Something was wrongvery wrong. Even the receptionist knew it. They would fit me in. Suddenly I was on a high-speed traingoing someplace that I did not want to go. I didnt have a reservation. I didnt have a destination. It didnt matter. I had the symptom. I could come on board.
As the train sped rapidly down the track, my primary care physician arranged an array of appointments with other physicians and various diagnostic tests. Descriptions of the pictures of my inner body did not verify the presence or absence of cancer. Instead they suggested a diverse assortment of diagnoses. It was like having to choose an answer for a multiple-choice question but choosing the answer that I liked bestmost likely a fibroidwas not an option. Fiews from the Other Side of the Looking Glass: Reflections on My Journey with Ovarian Cancer captures author Terry Downeys experiences with a silent but deadly cancer. Downey describes finding herself on a high speed train going places that she did not want to go. As she progressed through diagnosis, surgery, chemotherapy, and radioimmune therapy, those who made the journey with her helped to transform her feelings of hopelessness and despair into feelings of hope and courage.
TORCH: Tales of Remarkable Courage and Hope TORCH: Tales of Remarkable Courage and Hope is a collection of 25 compelling and inspiring stories by women in the Ovarian Cancer Support Group, sponsored by the Virginia R. Cvetko Patient Education Center at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. Through the stories in this book, women with ovarian cancer pass the "torch" of hope to others experiencing life-threatening disease. In these stories the women reveal how they draw from their emotional and spiritual resources to complement the medical treatment they receive. The stories emphasize the meaning and hope they have found through their cancer journey. This book comes as a gift of hope and encouragement to other cancer patients, their families, friends, and professional healthcare providers. Becky Teter, the originator and editor of the book, wrote in her story: "I have endless hope! And so do you!"
Dance Like Nobody's Watching DANCE LIKE NOBODY'S WATCHING is a riveting true story of courage that relates how the author transformed her experience with two deadly cancers—breast and ovarian—into an opportunity to slay all the cancer dragons. . . and survive. Her personal blueprint for survival includes believing in a mind-body connection, taking control of one's own healthcare, participating in a support group, and embracing many levels of love. By dancing close to death, she learns how to live, and in sharing that gift, she offers hope to anyone who must travel the lonely road of cancer.
The Dust Busting Chronicles: Cleaning My Way Through Ovarian Cancer The Dust Busting Chronicles: Cleaning My Way Through Ovarian Cancer details the horrific and life-altering battle against ovarian cancer during a harrowing 19-month period. The story relays the logistical challenges of a life-threatening disease, and explores poignant moments of hope, anger, frustration and defeat. The story begins with the author packing up her life in New Jersey, after the loss of her life partner, Lyse. The ensuing chapters disclose the cancer experience in compelling detail. Chemotherapy treatments begin, and the couple adjusts to a regimen of infusions, disabling side effects, and a mountain of pills. Cheryl's obsessive-compulsive disorder grows in scope as Lyse's medical challenges put a strangle hold on all areas of their life. The story gives the reader an intimate view of the dark side of the author's coping mechanism and the stress that accompanies her rituals. The first chemotherapy regimen results in a good report, but several months later, the couple receives discouraging news. Two more chemotherapy protocols follow and both yield disastrous results. The final three weeks of Lyse's life, spent at Holy Name Hospital, were dramatic, tender, and passionate. The concluding chapter is a matter-of-fact but moving account of accepting things, even death, as they are, loving so deeply it's painful, and coming through on the other side. Those of us left on this side will move forward, alone, but having loved in such a way that that is all we truly remember in the end.
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