Diagnosis Cancer: Your Guide Through the First Few Months - Hardcover

Harpham, Wendy Schlessel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039303187X ISBN 13: 9780393031874

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1992

Synopsis

Handles the many questions for which cancer patients and their families need answers, and includes a suggested reading list, resources for the newly diagnosed patient, and an explanation of common medical tests

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Review

"Wendy Harpham has bridged the medical and the patient sides of cancer in a way that few have done and none have presented so well."

Wendy Harpham has bridged the medical and the patient sides of cancer in a way that few have done and none have presented so well.--Jimmie C. Holland, M.D., Chairman, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Clear, simple but comprehensive and compassionate... . Should be a bible for everyone facing cancer.--Jane Brody

If you take one book with you on your journey when you or a loved one is faced with the diagnosis of cancer, this is the one.--Leonard A. Zwelling, MD, Vice President for Research Administration, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

About the Author

Wendy Schlessel Harpham, MD, is the author of several books, including Diagnosis: Cancer and After Cancer. She lectures nationally on cancer and serious illness and lives in Dallas, Texas, with her husband and children.

Edition details

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039303187X
• ISBN 13: 9780393031874
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Pilcher Ann Bliss