This handy, reassuring guide helps recently diagnosed patients answer pressing questions, such as How far advanced is the disease? What tests are involved? and What treatments will be recommended? and understand the often confusing and intimidating medical jargon. In addition, this fully updated second edition is a quick, reliable reference to the most current procedures and treatment options. Among these are the increasingly popular trend of using chemotherapy and radiation prior to surgery, targeted therapies involving newer drugs that limit their focus to the cancer cells, the use of laparoscopic surgery, and latest approaches in radiation therapy and chemotherapy drugs. This work also reviews symptoms and risk factors for colon cancer, how the disease may be prevented, and pros and cons of various treatments.

Colon & Rectal Cancer: From Diagnosis to Treatment

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Ruggieri MD, Paul

Tolentino MD, Addison R.

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Addicus Books

Have You Been Diagnosed with Colon Cancer? If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with colon cancer, you're probably already experiencing the whirlwind of emotions that come with a cancer diagnosis. You're worried and frightened. You're probably full of questions. You wonder how far the disease has advanced. What tests will you go through? What form of treatment will you undergo? Surgeon Paul Ruggieri, M.D., understands such pressing questions, and offers answers that help bring peace of mind. In Colon &amp; Rectal Cancer, Dr. Ruggieri covers such topics as: • symptoms and risk factors for colon cancer • medical tests for getting a diagnosis • the importance of staging the cancer • benefits and risks of various treatments • surgery, radiation, chemotherapy…how they work • how colon cancer can be prevented A Valuable Resource for Patients and Families!

Colon & Rectal Cancer: A Patient's Guide to Treatment

This handy, reassuring guide helps recently diagnosed patients answer pressing questions, such as: How far advanced is the disease? What tests are involved? What treatments will be recommended? This fully updated third edition is a quick, reliable reference that helps decipher confusing and intimidating medical jargon and explains the most current procedures and treatment options. Among these are the increasingly popular trend of using chemotherapy and radiation prior to surgery, targeted therapies involving newer drugs that limit their focus to the cancer cells, the use of laparoscopic surgery, and latest approaches in radiation therapy, chemotherapy drugs, and immunotherapy. This work also reviews symptoms and risk factors for colon cancer, how the disease may be prevented, and pros and cons of various treatments.

Tolentino, Addison R

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Colon & Rectal Cancer: From Diagnosis to Treatment

Colon & Rectal Cancer: A Patient's Guide to Treatment

Colon & Rectal Cancer: From Diagnosis to Treatment