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The Cancer Clock by Sotiris Missailidis is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Cancer Clock about?

<p><b>Edited by the winner of the 2008 Mike Price Fellowship</b></p> <p><i>The Cancer Clock</i> is a comprehensive overview of cancer as a single topic and provides an all-encompassing account of the key aspects related to the disease from its causes and initial diagnosis through to treatment and care and the different support mechanisms available. Carefully divided into three key parts, the first part of the book focuses on the genesis of the disease through environmental, lifestyle and socioeconomic factors. The second part moves on to consider early disease, disease development, diagnosis, monitoring and imaging of the disease.&nbsp;The book&nbsp;then discusses standard treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy along with current developments in the field such as targeted therapeutics, antibody therapies and novel chemotherapy agents. The book closes with a discussion of patient care, pain control, nursing in cancer patients and rehabilitation processes and a final chapter that looks at the psychological and psychosocial aspects of the disease, from coping with the knowledge of having cancer to coping with the side effects of the treatments, family

Author

Sotiris Missailidis

Publisher

Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780470061510

Subjects

Medical, Nursing, Medicine