Recommended Books on Ovarian Cancer
Ovarian Cancer: Causes, Symptoms, Signs, Diagnosis, Treatments, Stages. Everything You Need to Know About Ovarian Cancer About This Ovarian Cancer Booklet:
This National Cancer Institute (NCI) booklet is about ovarian epithelial cancer. It is the most common type of ovarian cancer. It begins in the tissue that covers the ovaries.
You will read about possible causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of ovarian cancer. You will also find lists of questions to ask your doctor. It may help to take this booklet with you to your next appointment.
This booklet is also for family and friends or those seeking more information about ovarian cancer.
Cancer and Death: A Love Story in Two Voices (Health Communication) In this book, Leah and Nick tell the story of their lives together and about how their love for each other sustained them during Leah's 14-month ordeal with Stage IV ovarian cancer. This book is one of the most honest accounts ever written about cancer, death, grief and life.
Ovarian Cancer: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Medicine) Univ. of Glasgow, Scotland. Resource for the novice researcher and clinician and those experienced with laboratory-based research. Presents well-proven methods required for effective cancer research. Outline format. Extensive reference and halftone illustrations. DNLM: Ovarian Neoplasms--genetics.
Ovarian Cancer (Cancer Treatment and Research) Ovarian carcinoma continues to be responsible for more deaths than all other gynecologic malignancies combined, due to a continued inability to achieve detection of early (rather than advanced) stage disease and the lack of effective tumor-specific therapeutics. Ovarian carcinogenesis, invasion, and metastatic dissemination require a complex cascade of interrelated genetic, molecular, and biochemical events that regulate the neoplastic transition of normal ovarian surface epithelium. This volume summarizes recent advances in ovarian cancer detection and treatment and provides an analysis of current research into aspects of malignant transformation, growth control, and metastasis. A more detailed understanding of these processes may ultimately translate into the development of novel approaches for the detection and control of ovarian cancer.
Surgery for Ovarian Cancer: Principles and Practice A comprehensive surgical text covering the effective management of ovarian cancer, Surgery for Ovarian Cancer: Principles and Practice provides a step-by-step delineation of ovarian cancer surgery, including the theoretical basis for the surgical principles and techniques described. A significant portion of the text is devoted to the technical aspects of cytoreductive surgery. Topics include pre-operative preparation, incisions/wound healing, surgical instrumentation, the management of apparent early-stage ovarian cancer, and surgical staging. High quality artwork illustrates the main stages of each procedure and color photographs demonstrate key points.
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. Fifty percent of the profits from the sale of "The Dust Busting Chronicles: Cleaning My Way Through Ovarian Cancer" will be donated to: The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, Inc.14 Pennsylvania PlazaSuite 1400New York, NY 10122Phone: 212-268-1002www.ocrf.org
Peritoneal Carcinomatosis from Ovarian Cancer (Horizons in Cancer Research) Ovarian cancer is the most common cause of death among all gynecological neoplasms. Ovarian epithelial cancer represents approximately 90 per cent of all ovarian malignant tumours. The most usual pattern of spread and probably the earliest kind of metastasis of ovarian cancer is intraperitoneal spread, caused by apoptosis of viable cancer cells, even in cases where the ovarian surface has no visible rupture. Approximately 70 per cent to 75 per cent of all ovarian cancers are being diagnosed with peritoneal carcinomatosis and ascites in advanced stages III and IV. Peritoneal carcinomatosis from ovarian cancer may occur either concomitantly with the primary tumour or as a recurrence pattern of spread. Standard treatment consists of surgical debulking and postoperative systemic chemotherapy. Response rates to first-line chemotherapy with platinum/taxane combinations are high, about 70-80 per cent, but the vast majority of patients will relapse. Peritoneal seeding is a major cause of surgical treatment failure among those patients, even after optimal debulking. However, progressing ovarian cancer tends to remain within the peritoneal cavity or, better-expressed, ovarian cancer is a cancer of the peritoneum. The administration of cytotoxic agents directly into the peritoneal cavity as treatment for malignancy was initially evaluated more than 40 years ago. Over the past two decades, regional therapy of ovarian cancer has evolved from just an interesting pharmacokinetic concept into a viable management option for women with advanced disease. Several authors, and among them some of the world's leading experts on this field present the current knowledge and their experience on peritoneal carcinomatosis from ovarian cancer.
Bearing Witness: Living with Ovarian Cancer (Life Writing)
Storytelling is an important art form present in many cultures: it is a way of processing life events, of searching for meaning, and of allowing the teller and the listener to wrestle with the message. It is a form of teaching and learning. Bearing Witness is a collection of stories from women who went through the initial diagnosis and treatment of ovarian cancer only to find that the cancer recurred and that cure was no longer an option. These women represent a spectrum of ages, ethnic backgrounds, marital circumstances, and professional experiences. From their stories, we learn how each shapes the meaning of her life. Facing a life crisis can make one bitter and angry, but it can also provide the key to a thankful and generous spirit within. For the women in Bearing Witness, the stories are tangible legacies for family and friends and a chance to share their choice of living with the “glass half full.” They inspire the reader to reflect on life’s struggles and to find within themselves a sense of optimism, perhaps when they least expect to. The concluding critical essay places these stories in the context of contemporary discourses of illness and healing.
A Feather in My Wig: Ovarian Cancer Cured, Seventeen Years and Going Strong! The courageous story of one woman's successful battle against ovarian cancer.
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!"
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