The Cancer Dictionary - Hardcover

Sarg, Michael J.; Gross, Ann D.

 
9780816064113: The Cancer Dictionary

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Coauthored by a medical writer and the associate chief oncologist of medical oncology at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York, this updated A-to-Z resource provides more than 2,500 accessible definitions and terms for cancer patients and their families guiding them through much of the confusion that surrounds the latest claims of this enigmatic disease. This updated volume covers everything you need to know about this disease, including details about individual cancers, their causes, incidence levels, stages, and treatment. In addition, information about diagnostic tests; symptoms; surgeries; radiation therapies, their side effects, and risk factors; carcinogens; and prevention are also presented in this essential volume to highlight all the important aspects of this timely topic.

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Michael J. Sarg, M.D., is associate chief of medical oncology at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York, and a member of the teaching faculty of the St. Vincent's Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center, as well as associate professor of clinical medicine at New York Medical College. Ann D. Gross, M.A., who has an M.A. in gerontology, is Principal of AD Gross and Co., a healthcare communications firm specializing in providing strategic services to management, including consulting, training, development/fundraising, writing, and editing. She holds an B.A. in English from Cornell University and an M.A. in gerontology from the University of Southern California (USC), and was among the first eight students to graduate from USC's ""Ageworks"" program at the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology. She resides in New York, NY.

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