Download or read book Mesothelioma Uncovered From Diagnosis to a Cancer Free Tomorrow written by Dr. Spineanu Eugenia and published by Dr. Spineanu Eugenia. This book was released on with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover a comprehensive and illuminating exploration of Mesothelioma in "Mesothelioma Uncovered: From Diagnosis to a Cancer-Free Tomorrow." This treatise delves deep into the world of Mesothelioma, offering a wealth of medical knowledge, insights, and holistic approaches that empower readers to understand, cope with, and potentially prevent this rare and aggressive cancer. In this meticulously researched treatise, you will: Uncover the Depths of Mesothelioma: Gain an in-depth understanding of the disease, from its origins and risk factors to its different types and stages. Explore its historical context and discover the challenges in diagnosing Mesothelioma accurately. Navigate the Anatomy and Biochemistry: Dive into the intricate anatomy of the pleura, peritoneum, and pericardium, where Mesothelioma often originates. Explore the histopathological features and cellular mechanisms driving this cancer's growth, offering a clear insight into the disease's progression. Decode the Genetic and Epigenetic Secrets: Delve into the genetic predispositions, mutations, oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, and epigenetic modifications that contribute to Mesothelioma. Understand the signaling pathways that play a pivotal role in the disease and explore potential biomarkers. Master Diagnostic Challenges: Gain a comprehensive understanding of the clinical presentation, imaging techniques, biopsy procedures, immunohistochemistry, and staging systems used to diagnose and classify Mesothelioma. Discover the latest emerging diagnostic technologies poised to revolutionize early detection. Explore Multimodal Approaches and Holistic Health: Discover the array of treatment options available, including surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and emerging experimental therapies. Additionally, delve into holistic health strategies to manage pain, pleural effusion, nutritional support, and emotional well-being. Advocate for Prevention and Asbestos Awareness: Understand the critical role of advocacy in promoting asbestos bans and regulations, preventing further exposure, and supporting affected individuals. Explore humanitarian efforts in high-risk areas and envision a Mesothelioma-free future. With its engaging style, meticulous research, and a focus on holistic health, "Mesothelioma Uncovered" is not just a treatise; it's a beacon of hope for patients, caregivers, medical professionals, and anyone seeking a brighter, cancer-free tomorrow. Dive into the wealth of knowledge within these pages, and embark on a journey towards understanding, awareness, and a future without Mesothelioma.

Download or read book The Emperor of All Maladies written by Siddhartha Mukherjee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.

Download or read book Asbestiform Fibers written by Committee on Nonoccupational Health Risks of Asbestiform Fibers and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the more than 30 million tons of asbestos used in the United States since 1900 is still present as insulation in offices and schools, as vinyl-asbestos flooring in homes, and in other common products. This volume presents a comprehensive evaluation of the relation of these fibers to specific diseases and the extent of nonoccupational risks associated with them. It covers sources of asbestiform fibers, properties of the fibers, and carcinogenic and fibrogenic risks they pose.

Download or read book Lean on Me written by Lorraine Kember and published by L Kember Publications. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lake Effect written by Nancy A. Nichols and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On her deathbed, Sue asked her sister for one thing: to write about the connection between the industrial pollution in their hometown and the rare cancer that was killing her. Fulfilling that promise has been Nancy Nichols’ mission for more than a decade. Lake Effect is the story of her investigation. It reaches back to their childhood in Waukegan, Illinois, an industrial town on Lake Michigan once known for good factory jobs and great fishing. Now Waukegan is famous for its Superfund sites: as one resident put it, asbestos to the north, PCBs to the south. Drawing on her experience as a journalist, Nichols interviewed dozens of scientists, doctors, and environmentalists to determine if these pollutants could have played a role in her sister’s death. While researching Sue’s cancer, she discovered her own: a vicious though treatable form of pancreatic cancer. Doctors and even family urged her to forget causes and concentrate on cures, but Nichols knew that it was relentless questioning that had led to her diagnosis. And that it is questioning—by government as well as individuals—that could save other lives. Lake Effect challenges us to ask why. It is the fulfillment of a sister’s promise. And it is a call to stop the pollution that is endangering the health of all our families.

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Download or read book Targeted Therapies in Lung Cancer Management Strategies for Nurses and Practitioners written by Marianne Davies and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to educate nurses and advanced practice providers (APP’s) about known mutations, availability of targeted therapy and the management of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). It will educate nurses and practitioners about the scope of therapy to assure safe and effective lung cancer treatment. In this era of personalized medicine, nurses and APP’s are responsible for guiding patients from diagnosis through treatment. This starts with the identification of patients that can benefit from these therapies, the key role of biopsy acquisition (ie. what to test, when and how often) and treatment selection based on the mutation identified. Readers will learn about the mechanisms of action, administration, potential adverse side effects and unique management strategies for these targeted agents. Lung cancer continues to be the leading cause of cancer death in the United States and worldwide. Recent advances in the identification of specific oncogenic mutations that drive cancer development, growth and metastasis have led to major paradigm shifts in lung cancer treatment. Sophisticated methods are required to identify specific mutations at the time of diagnosis. This book explains how molecularly targeted therapies have been developed that target these drivers. To date, several tyrosine kinase inhibitors have been approved to target the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), EML4-ALK ,ROS1 and BRAF. Most recently, immune checkpoint inhibitors have been approved with some indication that efficacy may be enhanced for patients who overexpress PD-L1. While some driver mutations have been identified, there is ongoing investigation into additional mutations. In the case of driver mutations, lung cancers will develop resistance to therapy. This book provides nurses and APP’s with the mechanisms of resistance that have been identified such as T790 mutation and many others in the EGFR mutation, and shows how the next level of drug development is focused on identifying mechanisms of resistance and development of new agents that overcome these mutations. With this book in hand, nurses and practitioners will be able to navigate patients through this ever expanding field of lung cancer treatment.

Download or read book Critical Appraisal of Epidemiological Studies and Clinical Trials written by Mark Elwood and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a logical system of critical appraisal, to allow readers to evaluate studies and to carry out their own studies more effectively. This system emphasizes the central importance of cause and effect relationships. Its great strength is that it is applicable to a wide range of issues, and both to intervention trials and observational studies. This system unifies the often different approaches used in epidemiology, health services research, clinical trials, and evidence-based medicine, starting from a logical consideration of cause and effect. The author's approach to the issues of study design, selection of subjects, bias, confounding, and the place of statistical methods has been praised for its clarity and interest. Systematic reviews, meta-analysis, and the applications of this logic to evidence-based medicine, knowledge-based health care, and health practice and policy are discussed. Current and often controversial examples are used, including screening for prostate cancer, publication bias in psychiatry, public health issues in developing countries, and conflicts between observational studies and randomized trials. Statistical issues are explained clearly without complex mathematics, and the most useful methods are summarized in the appendix. The final chapters give six applications of the critical appraisal of major studies: randomized trials of medical treatment and prevention, a prospective and a retrospective cohort study, a small matched case-control study, and a large case-control study. In these chapters, sections of the original papers are reproduced and the original studies placed in context by a summary of current developments.

Download or read book Cancer Registration written by Ole Møller Jensen and published by IARC. This book was released on 1991 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Data obtained by population based cancer registries have a pivotal role in cancer control. Now also available in Spanish and French, this volume, which contains 15 authored chapters and four useful appendices, remains a standard reference for those planning to establish new cancer registries and those keen to adopt recognized methodologies. Information is given on the techniques required to collect, store, analyse and interpret data.

Download or read book Cancer Pain written by Eduardo D. Bruera and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second edition of the widely praised book by Drs Eduardo D. Bruera and Russell K. Portenoy on all aspects of cancer pain.

Download or read book Lung Tumors written by Barth Hoogstraten and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series on the treatment of cancer is sponsored by the UICe. The editors and authors feel strongly that more standar dization in cancer therapy is needed on a worldwide basis. This, of course, is only possible if experts from all countries subscribe to a joint policy of making their treatment designs available to practising oncologists all over the world. Current Treatment of Cancer discusses all the equipment and methods now in use in cancer therapy. It covers all types of cancer, thus providing the reader with comprehensive infor mation on cancer management. In recent decades there has been a tremendous improve ment in the treatment of cancer, and there is hope for even fur ther success in this fight. We are convinced that this series will help us to make a concerted response to the challenge of can cer. UICC Treatment and Rehabilitation Programme Ismail Elsebai Chairman Preface Part I Members of two institutions, the Brompton Hospital in London and the Finsen Institute in Copenhagen, were invited to write on lung cancer, and after reading the manuscripts it was decided that the contents of three pairs of chapters overlapped sufficiently for them to be combined.

Download or read book Cancer written by and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Asbestos related Occupational Diseases written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Compensation, Health, and Safety and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book PET in Oncology written by Stefan Dresel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last, here is a comprehensive compilation of the accumulated knowledge on PET and PET/CT in oncology. It covers the entire spectrum from solidly documented indications, such as staging and monitoring of lung and colorectal cancer, to the application of PET/CT in head and neck surgery, gynecology, radiation therapy, urology, pediatrics and others. The chapters are supplemented by an introduction into the underlying techniques of both imaging devices and radiopharmacy.

Download or read book Cancer Grading Manual written by Ivan Damjanov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second edition of a practice-oriented, well-illustrated manual on the microscopic grading of tumors. After an introduction on the history and basic tenets of tumor grading, subsequent chapters focus on specific organ systems. In each case, the most widely used system for grading common tumors is presented and discussed. Throughout, careful attention is paid to the principles of microscopic tumor grading, ancillary methods to improve grading, and the latest techniques used in evaluating tumors and formulating prognosis. Since the first edition, all chapters have been updated to reflect revisions in the clinical practice of pathology and to explain the role of novel immunohistochemistry and molecular biology techniques. In addition, a new chapter is devoted to the latest trends in cancer grading, and further illustrations have been included. Cancer Grading Manual is a superb resource for both diagnostic surgical pathologists and pathology residents.