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Cancer Clinical Trials: Experimental Treatments & How They Can Help You

Cancer Clinical Trials: Experimental Treatments & How They Can Help You

Finn, Robert

Paperback

Series: Patient Centered Guides

CancerGeneral Parenting

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ISBN10: 1565925661
ISBN13: 9781565925663
Publisher: Oreilly Media
Published: Oct 5 1999
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.14 Depth: 8.02
Language: English

For a very few cancers, treatment options are minimally invasive, resoundingly curative, and have very few side effects. However, most cancer patients face treatment options that are less than ideal. The odds they have been given for a chance of recurrence might be frightening. Or, the cure rate of treatment might be good, but the side effects (short- or long-term) might be daunting.However, there's great hope on the horizon. Basic research on cell biology is finally yielding important clues about the nature of cancer, and these clues are leading directly to promising new treatments. Physicians are finding better ways to alleviate cancer pain and some of the toxic side effects of chemotherapy. Medical device companies are testing new ways to detect cancer in ever earlier stages. And researchers are even developing therapies that will prevent the development of cancer in people who are at risk.Author Robert Finn, a science and medical journalist, believes that if you are not evaluating potential experimental treatments alongside the standard treatment protocols, you aren't considering all the facts you need.Cancer Clinical Trials is aimed at helping you consider the range of treatment options available through clinical trials -- treatments that may not be available any other way. It includes:

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