The Intelligent Patient Guide to Breast Cancer - Softcover

Olivotto, Ivo, M.D.; Gelmon, Karen, M.D.; McCready, David, M.D.; Kuusk, Urve, M.D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0981159915 ISBN 13: 9780981159911

Publisher: Intelligent Patient Guide Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

This best-selling self-help book for cancer patients and their families, by five practicing physicians and professors of medicine from Toronto and Vancouver, is the definitive authority on all aspects of breast cancer. It equips patients with the knowledge needed to take an active part in their treatment. Patients involved in making decisions about their treatment are better able to deal with their illness than are patients who give control to their doctors. Topics covered in the book include what cancer is, all about mammograms, breast self-examination technique, risk, what to do if a lump is found, benefits and side effects of all treatments, chemotherapy and radiation, what type of surgery is best, coping with cancer, reconstructive surgery and physiotherapy, living with the diagnosis, diet and vitamins, what herceptin is and how it should be used, the new concept of partial breast radiotherapy, what a sentinel node biopsy is, preventing recurrence of cancer, and practical tips.

About this title

About the Author

David McCready was born in London in 1963. He was educated at Hill House in London, then at Sandford Park in Dublin when his family moved there in 1976. He went on to study at The Institute of Technology in Dublin graduated as a Professional Structural Engineer MIEI in 1990. He also went on to complete a Post Graduate Diploma course in Project Management at Trinity College Dublin in 1992. During the period 1983 to 1997 McCready simultaneously operated his own Building and Maintenance business.

By 1996 McCready had acquired the practical skill of receiving direct tuition from guiding spirits in highly reliable and accurate way. In 1997 he ceased all building and maintenance operations and moved to London in order to start a new career in spiritual advancement. In this he was guided by one simple defining vision, he would, for the foreseeable future, have an Earthly occupation of connecting human beings to their higher spiritual faculties. He soon realized that when clients asked him

Edition details

• Publisher: Intelligent Patient Guide Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0981159915
• ISBN 13: 9780981159911
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 336