Tài liệu Fighting Cancer with Knowledge & Hope pptx

[...]... sister, Shawn, social worker par excellence, sister without rival, thank you for your great inner strength, for a lifetime of friendship and caring, and for your insight into the needs of cancer survivors xviii Fighting Cancer with Knowledge and Hope This page intentionally left blank Part I Exposing Cancer This page intentionally left blank 1 Understanding Cancer When I first laid eyes on Alice, I could... response to an “invasion from within” of bizarre collections of cells that form troubling growths called tumors From a medical point of view, cancer can be defined another way: 7 Exposing Cancer What is Cancer? Cancer is a disease caused by the growth and spread in our bodies of cells that do not know how to die The Three Essential Properties of Cancer All cancers begin with the conversion of one cell... growth of cancer (without necessarily shrinking tumors); this has led to a new mindset about the goals of therapy Especially for cancers that are not considered curable, prolonged stabilization of the cancer can be as worthy a goal as obtaining remission Oncologists (physicians with advanced training and certification in the medical care of people with cancer) have the same concerns as patients, but with. .. The hope is that interfering with these critical targets will cause the cancer cells to die These growth targets and the drugs designed to block them are discussed later We’ve established that growth is central to thinking about cancer But what does it mean for cancer to grow, and to grow in an unlimited way? What actually is growing? The answer is the number of cancer cells All cancers start with. .. about the growth rate of the cancer Another way to phrase this 8 Understanding Cancer question is: “How fast is the cancer growing?” When a patient asks if the cancer is in “remission,” he or she is really asking if the cancer has stopped growing and, more to the point, started to shrink On the other hand, if the patient is told that the cancer has “relapsed,” then it means the cancer is growing again The... will, throughout their cancer journeys, suffer the anxiety of not knowing if their treatments are working or for how long their treatments will work or if they will survive their cancer With all these cancer- related issues to think about, it may come as a revelation to many battling cancer that throughout their cancer odyssey, they will rarely think clearly about the disease itself Cancer patients think... In contrast, a seventy-five-year-old man with a slow-growing prostate cancer that is not causing any symptoms may never need the cancer treated All of these clinical lines of thought revolve around the growth properties of the cancer in question For each patient, the growth assessment of the cancer is best understood through discussions with the oncologist Cancer researchers are also focused on growth... calm in dealing with the disease If you are a cancer patient, I must tell you that I do not know if focusing your thoughts on cancer will help you live longer But with a greater understanding of the disease you are battling, you will feel more in control of your situation And with more control, you will be more relaxed and better able to cope with the many ups and downs that every cancer patient experiences... unique, so is every cancer This is why I caution patients that the information they receive about other people with cancer will probably not relate to their case AN UNLIMITED CAPACITY FOR GROWTH The growth of cancer is very much on the minds of all those affected by this disease: patients, physicians, and researchers When a cancer patient wonders how long it has been from the time his or her cancer first... you the strength you need for the big fight I have read many books about cancer, from Dr Linus Pauling’s Cancer and Vitamin C, Dr Virginia Livingston-Wheeler’s The Conquest of Cancer, and Dr Max Gerson’s A Cancer Therapy to Claudia I Henschke’s x Foreword Lung Cancer, Dr Carolyn D Runowicz and Dr Sheldon H Cherry’s The Answer to Cancer, Adam Wishart’s One in Three This book, however, stands out from . y0 w0 h1" alt="" Fighting Cancer with Knowledge and Hope Yale University Press Health & Wellness A Yale University Press Health & Wellness book. for Life: Developing the Program That Works Best for You Fighting Cancer with Knowledge & Hope A Guide for Patients, Families, and Health Care Providers 