Quick Facts on Advanced Cancer or 15 Minute Better Back Workout

Quick Facts on Advanced Cancer

Author: American Cancer Society

Educate yourself about advanced cancer

Advanced cancer is not likely to be cured, but it can frequently be controlled. The physical symptoms can almost always be well managed. QuickFACTS Advanced Cancer emphasizes that every person’s cancer is unique, and you have the right to be well-informed and to be the decision-maker in planning treatment to offer the best possible quality of life. QuickFACTS Advanced Cancer is both comprehensive and a quick read, with highlighted cover tabs for quick reference of specific topics.

QuickFACTS Advanced Cancer:

• Covers everything from risk factors to living well after cancer treatment
• Provides critical questions to ask your healthcare team
• Educates and empowers you right from the start
• Completely updated with the latest patient treatment guidelines
• Includes an advanced cancer dictionary

Library Journal

These 4 x 7 inch books from the American Cancer Society (ACS)-released to coincide with National Lung Cancer Awareness Month (November) and the ACS Great American Smokeout (the third Thursday in November)-address in lay terms the issues confronting patients with advanced cancer and lung cancer. What cancer is, risk factors, metastases, diagnosis and staging, prevention, treatments (e.g., surgery, chemotherapy, complementary/alternative therapies), what to ask the doctor, sources of support, palliative at-home and hospice care-these are the major issues covered here authoritatively and comprehensively for both patients and their loved ones. The ACS has achieved its goal of providing overviews that tackle need-to-know issues and supply references for additional follow-up information as desired. Recommended. [Other 2006 and 2007 entries in this series will address prostate, colon, skin, breast, bladder, and pancreatic cancer as well as leukemia, lymphedema, and bone metastasis.-Ed.]-James Swanton, Harlem Hosp. Lib., New York Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Interesting textbook: El Salto Radical: una Lección Personal en Mando Extremo

15 Minute Better Back Workout

Author: Suzanne Martin

Offering authoritative, constructive advice and information on this worldwide health problem, Better Back assesses a wide variety of available treatments and gives a detailed overview of the solutions to back pain. Explaining how the back works and outlining the many causes of pain, this is the ideal guide for anyone with a bad back pain who wants to take an active role in their own health care.

Author Biography: Dr. John Tanner is a private practitioner of orthopedics and sports medicine, with special interests in back injuries and their treatment. He is on the council of the Society of Orthopedic Medicine and the Institute of Orthopedic Medicine.