Fighting cancer with knowledge & hope a guide for patients, families, and health care providers /

Frank, Richard C., MD.

Fighting cancer with knowledge & hope a guide for patients, families, and health care providers / [electronic resource] : Fighting cancer with knowledge and hope Richard C. Frank ; illustrations by Gail V. Parsons. - New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2009. - xviii, 257 p. - Yale University Press health & wellness . - Yale University Press health & wellness. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-235) and index.

Understanding cancer -- Diagnosis, staging, curability -- Understanding specific cancers -- Why cancer develops -- How cancer grows : the basis of cancer treatments -- Cancer treatments revolve around metastasis -- Cancer treatments at work -- Get prepared to survive.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780300156652 (electronic bk.)




Cancer--Popular works.


Electronic books.

RC263 / .F695 2009

616.99/4