Johns Hopkins Patients' Guide to Brain Cancer

Johns Hopkins Patients' Guide to Brain Cancer
Author: Deanna Glass Macenka
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2011-06-20
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1449618863

"Johns Hopkins Patients' Guide to Brain Cancer is a concise, easy-to-follow, how-to guide that puts you on a path to wellness by explaining glioma brain tumor treatment from start to finish. It guides you through the overwhelming maze of treatment decisions, simplifies the complicated schedule that lies ahead, and provides valuable tools to help you put together your plan of care. Empower yourself with accurate, understandable information to participate confidently in the decision making about your care and treatment."--Page 4 of cover

Johns Hopkins Patients' Guide to Lung Cancer

Johns Hopkins Patients' Guide to Lung Cancer
Author: Justin F. Klamerus
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2010-05-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1449610757

Johns Hopkins Patients' Guide to Lung Cancer is a concise, easy-to-follow “how to” guide that puts you on the path to wellness by explaining lung cancer treatment from start to finish. It guides you through the overwhelming maze of treatment decisions, simplifies the complicated schedule that lies ahead, and performs the task of putting together your plan of care in layman's terms. Empower yourself with accurate, understandable information that will give you the ability to confidently participate in the decision making about your care and treatment.

Johns Hopkins Patients' Guide to Brain Cancer

Johns Hopkins Patients' Guide to Brain Cancer
Author: Deanna Glass Macenka
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2011-06-20
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1449687466

Johns Hopkins Patients' Guide to Brain Cancer is a concise, easy-to-follow “how to” guide that puts you on a path to wellness by explaining brain cancer treatment from start to finish. It guides you through the overwhelming maze of treatment decisions, simplifies the complicated schedule that lies ahead, and performs the task of putting together your plan of care in layman’s terms. Empower yourself with accurate, understandable information that will give you the ability to confidently participate in the decision making about your care and treatment. About the Series: Learning that you or someone you love has cancer is devastating, and feeling lost and powerless is a common immediate response. The Johns Hopkins Patients’ Guides are designed to alleviate your anxiety, empower you with information, and enable you to fully understand your treatment options. Each book in this series is dedicated to a specific type of cancer. The information is there to help lighten your burden and to assist you in becoming an active participant in your care. Cancer rarely allows us to take a diversion from life, and offering guidance on how to continue to live life while working hard on getting well is part of the outcome we hope to help you achieve.

Johns Hopkins Patients' Guide to Cancer in Older Adults

Johns Hopkins Patients' Guide to Cancer in Older Adults
Author: Gary R. Shapiro
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2010-12-22
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1449632750

Johns Hopkins Patients’ Guide to Cancer in Older Adults was recently honored with 5 Stars from Doody's Book Review! Johns Hopkins Patients' Guide to Cancer in Older Adults is a concise, easy-to-follow “how to” guide that puts you on a path to wellness by explaining cancer treatment in older adults from start to finish. It guides you through the overwhelming maze of treatment decisions, simplifies the complicated schedule that lies ahead, and performs the task of putting together your plan of care in layman’s terms. Empower yourself with accurate, understandable information that will give you the ability to confidently participate in the decision making about your care and treatment. About the Series: Learning that you or someone you love has cancer is devastating, and feeling lost and powerless is a common immediate response. The Johns Hopkins Patients’ Guides are designed to alleviate your anxiety, empower you with information, and enable you to fully understand your treatment options. Each book in this series is dedicated to a specific type of cancer. The information is there to help lighten your burden and to assist you in becoming an active participant in your care. Cancer rarely allows us to take a diversion from life, and offering guidance on how to continue to live life while working hard on getting well is part of the outcome we hope to help you achieve.

Becoming Dr. Q

Becoming Dr. Q
Author: Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2011-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520949609

Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer. But not too long ago, he was Freddy, a nineteen-year-old undocumented migrant worker toiling in the tomato fields of central California. In this gripping memoir, Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa tells his amazing life story—from his impoverished childhood in the tiny village of Palaco, Mexico, to his harrowing border crossing and his transformation from illegal immigrant to American citizen and gifted student at the University of California at Berkeley and at Harvard Medical School. Packed with adventure and adversity—including a few terrifying brushes with death—Becoming Dr. Q is a testament to persistence, hard work, the power of hope and imagination, and the pursuit of excellence. It’s also a story about the importance of family, of mentors, and of giving people a chance.

Beating Melanoma

Beating Melanoma
Author: Steven Q. Wang
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2011-05-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 142140026X

Dr. Steven Q. Wang, a world-renowned skin cancer expert, provides an essential guide for people with melanoma and their families. The book’s unique, practical format approaches the disease in two phases, just as people with melanoma need to do. First comes a step-by-step guide for what Dr. Wang calls the "mad rush" phase—an intense and stressful period from diagnosis to completing initial treatment. Dr. Wang's calm guidance helps readers through this critical time, using an easy to understand plan for ensuring optimal treatment and survival outcomes. Once the mad rush phase is over, the "marathon phase" begins—life resumes its normal shape but with lingering concerns about new melanoma and metastases. Here Dr. Wang addresses common questions about prevention and prognosis. Beating Melanoma offers current research in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of melanoma; photographs of different kinds of skin cancers; and a readable narrative that demystifies everything from the pathology report to the stages of cancer. The only book to outline detailed instructions for melanoma patients at all stages of their disease, it is a guide that people with melanoma will turn to with confidence.

The Busy Caregiver's Guide to Advanced Alzheimer Disease

The Busy Caregiver's Guide to Advanced Alzheimer Disease
Author: Jennifer R. Stelter
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2021-10-19
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1421441071

"The Dementia Connection Model is a recipe to connect families in a way that produces positive interactions and preserves their loved one's level of functioning for as long as possible. The model brings together three concepts in dementia care of what is happening to the person with Alzheimer disease and, more importantly, why these things are happening as the person's condition progresses and how to intervene successfully"--

Living with Itch

Living with Itch
Author: Gil Yosipovitch
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2013-10-30
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1421412349

Find relief from chronic itch in this comprehensive guide. We have all experienced itch, whether from insect bites or dry skin, but millions of people worldwide have chronic or even intractable itch. Just like chronic pain, chronic itch interferes with a person’s ability to function—and even affects quality of life. Living with Itch offers relief, drawing on the authors’ vast knowledge of itch, the suffering it causes, and available treatments. Itch researchers and clinicians Drs. Gil Yosipovitch and Shawn G. Kwatra explain the cascade of physiological events that causes us to experience itch. They describe the many skin diseases, from atopic dermatitis (eczema) to psoriasis, and conditions like chronic kidney disease, lymphoma, HIV, and neuropathies that cause itch. Living with Itch provides information on preventing itch as well as topical and systemic ways to treat it. Patient and parent narratives illustrate how people cope with itch and how, with medical and social support, itch can be managed.

Controversies in Neuro-Oncology

Controversies in Neuro-Oncology
Author: Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
Publisher: Thieme
Total Pages: 1008
Release: 2013-07-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 160406756X

Because of tremendous advancements in research, neurosurgical oncology has become increasingly complex, and it is imperative that physicians have scientific evidence to guide and defend their decision making as they strive to provide the best patient care. Controversies in Neuro-Oncology: Best Evidence Medicine for Brain Tumor Surgery, written by world-renowned experts, is a comprehensive guide that compiles, synthesizes, and summarizes the most relevant scientific literature available in neurosurgical oncology. It provides objective recommendations based on the data found in the literature, giving physicians the information they need to make fully informed treatment decisions. Key Features: An opening chapter, Introduction to Best Evidence Medicine, illustrates how the authors rate the viability of the data presented Authors discuss in detail commonly disputed topics specific to tumor type, such as the roles of surgery and gross total resection as well as radiosurgery options Expert recommendation boxes highlight "takeaways" for the reader Summary tables distill abundant scientific evidence and emphasize the main conclusions of published studies This book will be the go-to guide for all neurosurgeons, oncologists, and neurologists involved in the multidisciplinary care of patients with brain tumors.