100 Q&as About Uterine Cancer (100 Questions & Answers about) - Softcover

Dizon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0763776580 ISBN 13: 9780763776589

Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc, 2010

Synopsis

Whether you are a newly diagnosed uterine cancer patient, a survivor, or a friend or relative of either, this book offers help. 100 Questions and Answers About Uterine Cancer addresses the issues that are specific to the woman with uterine cancer. Written by two renowned gynecologic oncologists and including insider advice from an actual patient, this book gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about uterine cancer. It explains important facts about symptoms and the diagnosis process, treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, coping strategies, and sources of patient and family support. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone dealing with the physical and emotional turmoil of this frightening disease.

About this title

About the Author:

Don S. Dizon, MD, FACP-Brown Medical School/Women & Infants' Hospital of Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island Dr. Dizon is a 1991 graduate of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He trained in Internal Medicine at Yale New-Haven Hospital and in Medical Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center where he received a Career Development Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology for work on platinum drug resistance. He later joined the Developmental Therapeutics faculty and Gynecology Disease Management Team of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2003 he left New York City and assumed his current role as the director of Medical Oncology for the Program in Women s Oncology of Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island. In 2005 he helped establish the state s first Center for Sexuality, Intimacy, and Fertility for women with cancer. In 2005 he was elected Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He also serves as Medical Director of the Program s Integrative Care Program. Nationally, he continues to pursue research in the novel treatments of both breast and gynecological cancers and is active in the Gynecologic Oncology Group, serving on Phase I, Developmental Therapeutics, and Cervix committees. Currently he is the President of the National Consortium of Breast Centers. Linda R. Duska, MD-Associate Professor, Gynecology Fellowship Director, University of VA School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia Dr. Duska is an Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Virginia (UVA) where she is also the Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Director. Dr. Duska received her Doctor of Medicine from the New York University School of Medicine and completed her Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD. Upon completion of her Fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, she joined the Gynecologic Oncology staff at the Massachusetts General Hospital and was a member of the faculty of Harvard University for 10 years prior to relocating to UVA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0763776580
• ISBN 13: 9780763776589
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 134