Chemotherapy and Radiation For Dummies

Author: Alan P. Lyss, MD
Secondary Author: Humberto Fagundes, M.D.
ISBN: 9780764578328

An informative, compassionate guide for cancer patients and their loved ones Each year, more than 1 million people get treated for cancer, and most of these will undergo chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or both. This reassuring, optimistic guide helps people get a handle on treatment options and explains in plain English how chemotherapy and radiation therapy really work. It offers detailed advice on how to alleviate and cope with side effects-which range from hair loss to nausea to anemia-and describes how good nutrition, meditation, support groups, and other techniques and resources can help in the recovery process.

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Publish Date: 2005-04-22

Subjects: Health & Fitness / Diseases / Cancer

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Cancer)