Chemotherapy and Radiation for Dummies
Author(s): Alan P. Lyss
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.
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- : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
- : wiley
- : 0.521631
- : 26 April 2005
- : 2.54 Centimeters X 18.539 Centimeters X 23.11 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Alan P. Lyss
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 384