Johns Hopkins Patients' Guide to Cancer in Older Adults: . (The Johns Hopkins Patients' Guide Series). This item is unavailable.Johns Hopkins Patients' Guide to Cancer in Older Adults: . (The Johns Hopkins Patients' Guide Series)

Johns Hopkins Patients Guide to Cancer in Older Adults is a concise, easy-to-follow how to guide that puts you and those you are caring for on a path to wellness by explaining cancer treatment in older adults from start to finish. It guides you through the overwhelming maze of treatment decisions, simplifies the complicated schedule that lies ahead, and provides valuable tools to help you put together a personalized plan of care, whether for you, your parents, or other older loved ones. Empower yourself with accurate, understandable information that will give you the ability to participate confidently in the decision making about care and treatment of the elderly cancer patient.

Dr. Shapiro is Chairman of the Department of Oncology at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and Medical Director of the John Hopkins Program in Geriatric Oncology. He also serves as faculty member of the Breast Cancer Program for the Johns Hopkins Avon Foundation Breast Center. Dr. Shapiro received his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University and his medical degree from George Washington State University. He completed his residency in internal medicine and a hematology fellowship at Northwestern University in Chicago. He completed a medical oncology fellowship with B.J. Kennedy at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Shapiro completed additional postgraduate work in medical ethics at the University of Chicago and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His clinical interests focus on ethical issues as well as geriatric oncology care.

Instructor in Oncology, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimor, Maryland