Oncology Cancer category: 152 books
Fighting Cancer with Knowledge and Hope
A Guide for Patients, Families, and Health Care Providers, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
When Nothing Is Impossible
Spanish surgeon Diego González Rivas' global crusade against cancer and pain
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Impossible is nothing. With that as his motto, Spanish surgeon Diego González Rivas takes up his fight against cancer and pain. Using his revolutionary technique, Uniportal VATS, he can remove the most complicated tumors from the lungs through a single incision, sometimes with only local anesthetic,...
Quick Reference for Otolaryngology
Guide for APRNs, PAs, and Other Healthcare Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
"This quick reference guide to ear, nose, and throat questions is easy to navigate to search for specific diseases. The book breaks down each branch of the specialty of otolaryngology and enables readers to easily find the body system they are interested in. The outline style also allows readers...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Patients with breast and gynaecological cancers have to contend with a large number of difficult and challenging issues. To help them to do this it is vital that their health carers are fully informed in all aspects of women's cancers. This book provides a comprehensive and meaningful picture of this...
Theft of a Life
A Family's Story of Love
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
"You will see what is most precious and most sacred is the love we share… This love lasts forever - Susan Squellati Florence This book is the story of four – an eight-year-old’s experience coping with cancer, an 11-year-old sister living with her grandparents while her mother spends nearly...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
A biomarker is a molecule that is measured as a marker of normal biological processes, disease processes or the response to a diagnostic or therapeutic intervention. Kidney diseases like acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, diabetic nephropathy, glomerular disease, renal cancer and preeclampsia...
by Kenneth Kee
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Carcinoid syndrome is a group of symptoms associated with carcinoid tumors
Tumors of the small intestine, colon, appendix, and bronchial tubes
Carcinoid tumors produce the vasoactive substance, serotonin
Vasodilation of the blood vessels causes flushing
The flushing results from secretion of...
When Death Comes Knocking for Your Patients
A Guide for Nurses and Palliative Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
As a nurse or palliative caregiver, do you want to take better care of terminally ill patients, their loved ones, and yourself? Would you like to be empowered under difficult circumstances and feel more comfortable about what to say when providing palliative care?Based on thirty years of experience...
by Betty R. Ferrell, Nessa Coyle
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
The essence of nursing care continually exposes nurses to suffering. Although they bear witness to the suffering of others, their own suffering is less frequently exposed. This slim volume attempts to give voice to the suffering that nurses witness in patients, families, colleagues, and themselves....
Things I've Learned from Dying
A Book About Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
"Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with others. We die alone."
In his riveting, artfully written memoir The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow enraptured readers with a searing and frank exploration of his work defending inmates on death row. But...
by Hayley Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Hayley was 22 years old when her brother Wayne, then 16, was diagnosed with leukaemia, cancer of the blood. Within a few weeks Wayne also contracted a deadly fungal infection in his sinus, which spread to his left eye and then into his brain.
In this book, Hayley recounts the emotional journey...
Palliative Care Nursing
Quality Care to the End of Life, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
This textbook has...introduced concepts and methods of education which [help] to move palliative nursing forward as an evidenced based practice of whole person care.
-- Betty Ferrell, PhD, FAAN
Research Scientist (From the Foreword)
In this comprehensive textbook on palliative care nursing,...
Let's Talk Coffee & Health - Volume 1-4
Let's Talk Coffee & Health... What Your Doctor Isn't Telling You, #5
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2016
Coffee is always in the press with it's good, it's bad argument. This book clearly spells out the facts on what coffee is and isn't. Suppose you have a heart condition and your cardiologist says you should stop. Should you. Did you make the right choice or did you make things worse. ...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
In 1994, when the International Cell Death Society was founded, programmed cell death and apoptosis had just recently been recognized as major factors in medicine, important in diseases such as cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, autoimmune diseases, and developmental anomalies. The biomedical world...