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Lung Cancer: Myths, Facts, Choices--and Hope
An authoritative book with new lifesaving strategies for those at risk and those already diagnosed. Lung cancer kills more women than breast cancer, more men than prostate cancer. This authoritative book presents new lifesaving strategies for those already diagnosed and those at risk (including ex-smokers).
Lung cancer is deadly because it's usually found late. Dr. Claudia Henschke's groundbreaking research on early diagnosis, published in Lancet , made headlines worldwide. Now, for the first time, she offers specific recommendations based on her latest findings: who needs to be checked and how to get tested.
People with lung cancer often are told, "Nothing can be done." Not so! Dr. Henschke and coauthor Peggy McCarthy, a leading patient advocate, provide up-to-the-minute advice, along with inspiring quotes from survivors.
If lung cancer has touched your life―or if you have reason for concern―this comprehensive and compassionate book can help:
Lung cancer is deadly because it's usually found late. Dr. Claudia Henschke's groundbreaking research on early diagnosis, published in Lancet , made headlines worldwide. Now, for the first time, she offers specific recommendations based on her latest findings: who needs to be checked and how to get tested.
People with lung cancer often are told, "Nothing can be done." Not so! Dr. Henschke and coauthor Peggy McCarthy, a leading patient advocate, provide up-to-the-minute advice, along with inspiring quotes from survivors.
If lung cancer has touched your life―or if you have reason for concern―this comprehensive and compassionate book can help:
408 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2003
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September 8, 2015
If it is possible to write about lung cancer with love, then these authors have done it.
Claudia Henschke, Ph.D., M.D. grew up learning about lung cancer from her brilliant father, Ulrich Henschke, who discovered that the fatal mountain sickness of Czechoslovakian miners wasn't tuberculosis or some other bacterial infection, but rather lung cancer caused by exposure to natural radon in the mines.
Back in the 1930s when Ulrich Henschke began his career, there were only a few hundred documented cases of lung cancer in the entire world. Claudia Henschke, Ph.D., M.D. writes, "Today [in 2002], it's astonishing to think that lung cancer was a rare disease just sixty years ago."
This is the most loving, hopeful lung cancer book I've ever read.
Well done, authors!
Claudia Henschke, Ph.D., M.D. grew up learning about lung cancer from her brilliant father, Ulrich Henschke, who discovered that the fatal mountain sickness of Czechoslovakian miners wasn't tuberculosis or some other bacterial infection, but rather lung cancer caused by exposure to natural radon in the mines.
Back in the 1930s when Ulrich Henschke began his career, there were only a few hundred documented cases of lung cancer in the entire world. Claudia Henschke, Ph.D., M.D. writes, "Today [in 2002], it's astonishing to think that lung cancer was a rare disease just sixty years ago."
This is the most loving, hopeful lung cancer book I've ever read.
Well done, authors!
February 5, 2011
Easy to understand...great information.
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