Cancer and modern science
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Breast cancer: current and emerging trends in detection and treatment
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Colon cancer: current and emerging trends in detection and treatment
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Prostate cancer: current and emerging trends in detection and treatment
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4) Bone Cancer
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Thoroughly researched and reviewed by an expert oncologist, this book looks closely at bone cancer, a disease that affects mostly children and adolescents. The author clearly explains the various types of bone cancer before discussing individual bone cancer risk factors, including genetic factors. She then goes into a detailed discussion of diagnosis and treatment of the disease. The final chapter examines improved surgical techniques that have led...
5) Brain Cancer
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In the United States, between fifteen and twenty people out of every one hundred thousand develop brain cancer every year. When a brain tumor occurs, the ever-growing mass of cells compresses and damages other cells in the brain, interfering with brain function. The tumor pushes brain tissue around, creates pressure by pressing against the bones of the skull, and infiltrates healthy brain tissue and around nerves. Unlike other forms of cancer, which...
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Around the world, cervical cancer is the third most common cancer in women. In this clearly written, expert-reviewed volume, readers will learn all about cervical cancer and its main cause, the human papillomavirus (HPV). The book takes a look at individual risk factors as well as how the disease is diagnosed and treated. In addition, there is a detailed discussion of many of the new, advanced modes of detection and treatment that are helping save...
7) Liver Cancer
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Liver cancer is a cancer arising from the liver or a cancer that has spread to the liver, having originated in other organs (such as the colon, stomach, pancreas, breast, and lung). Liver cancer is the fifth most common cancer in the world. Even when treatments fail to provide much improvement in the liver cancer itself, pain and other signs and symptoms caused by liver cancer can be aggressively treated to improve quality of life. Liver cancer is...
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Ovarian cancer is the second most common form of female reproductive system cancer, after uterine cancer. This accessible, highly illustrated book takes a clinical look at ovarian cancer, the cellular processes involved, and the common ways of detecting and treating the disease. The final chapter discusses the cutting-edge medical advances and scientific breakthroughs that are leading to better methods of detection and improved treatment therapies....
