Ticks or Choices in Breast Cancer Treatment

Ticks: And What You Can Do about Them

Author: Roger Drummond

Have you ever found a tick on your body or your pet? Ticks covers everything you need to know about ticks and the diseases they carry, and provides the best, up-to-date information on how to protect yourself and your family.

Library Journal

This concise, clearly written guide describes the seven species of hard ticks and five species of soft ticks that one is likely to encounter in the United States. Included are the American and brown dog ticks, the deer tick (carrier of Lyme disease), and the lone star, relapsing fever, and Rocky Mountain ticks. Each tick is illustrated by a color photo. Chapters 1-6 present the ticks, animal hosts, habitats, and life cycles, as well as the symptoms of and treatments for the diseases they transmit. Chapters 7-10 discuss tick repellents, tick control methods, and tick removal. There's not much in print on this topic for general readers, so this will be a good, inexpensive resource for public libraries.-- Annette Aiello, Smithsonian Tropical Research Inst., Panama

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments, Third Edition	4
	Introduction	5
Chapter 1.	Ticks and How They Live	6
Chapter 2.	Where Ticks Live	11
Chapter 3.	Important Ticks	15
A.	Lone star tick	15
B.	Rocky Mountain wood tick	19
C.	Pacific Coast tick	20
D.	American dog tick	22
E.	Blacklegged tick	22
F.	Western blacklegged tick	24
G.	Brown dog tick	24
H.	Relapsing fever ticks	26
I.	Pajahuello tick	26
Chapter 4.	Lyme Disease	28
Chapter 5.	Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever	34
Chapter 6.	Other Diseases	38
A.	Human ehrlichiosis	38
B.	Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness	40
C.	Tularemia	40
D.	Colorado tick fever	42
E.	Human babesiosis	42
F.	Tick-borne relapsing fever	43
G.	Q fever	44
H.	Tick paralysis	45
Chapter 7.	How to Protect Yourself	48
A.	Proper Clothing	49
B.	Repellents Applied to Skin and Clothing	51
C.	Toxicants Applied to Clothing	53
Chapter 8.	How to Remove Ticks	55
Chapter 9.	How to Control Ticks	59
A.	Area Control with Insecticides	60
B.	Vegetation Management	63
C.	Insecticide-Treated Nest Material	64
D.	Bait and Insecticide Treatment of Mice	65
E.	Deer Treatment	66
F.	Deer Management	67
G.	Integrated Pest Management	68
Appendix	Useful Web Sites	70
	List of Illustrations	73
	Index	74

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Choices in Breast Cancer Treatment: Medical Specialists and Cancer Survivors Tell You What You Need to Know

Author: Kenneth D Miller

A diagnosis of breast cancer can be overwhelming. The disease is frightening and the medical landscape confusing. In the wake of fear and confusion comes the need to make decisions about treatment. This book provides women with medically reliable and up-to-date information to help them with these decisions.

Within these pages the reader will find a team of private consultants -- including surgeons, medical oncologists, radiologists, plastic surgeons, and women who have faced breast cancer -- each of whom offers sound advice and valuable insight. In addition to describing surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and breast reconstruction, the medical experts clarify choices and offer support, while breast cancer survivors tell their own stories of pain, perseverance, and triumph.

Choices in Breast Cancer Treatment is a rare blend of medical expertise and compelling personal accounts that empowers those with breast cancer to meet the disease with confidence, knowledge, and hope.

Publishers Weekly

Miller, an oncologist and director of the Yale Cancer Center Survivorship Program, presents a unique and indispensable book for women facing breast cancer, which features individual chapters written by medical experts and breast cancer survivors. Asserting that "knowledgeable people make different choices, for different reasons," Miller's overarching message is that each woman is unique, as is her experience with this life-threatening disease. Because there are so many potential scenarios-based upon the tumor's size, the stage of cancer, etc.-treatment options vary, and women must decide which route to take in a timely fashion while simultaneously confronting their fears. Miller's approach provides the reader with the sense that she's had a private and unhurried consultation with each specialist: medical oncologists, radiation oncologists and surgeons. In addition the book includes personal accounts of survivors who have faced an array of experiences, from the woman whose mammogram reveals a lump just weeks before her wedding to the breast cancer statistician who is diagnosed with the very disease she is studying. This collection will help to fortify women making tough choices, offering invaluable information along with hope. (Jan.)

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Doody Review Services

Reviewer:Heidi H Richardson, MD(University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics)
Description:This book provides newly diagnosed breast cancer patients with medical facts, descriptions of treatment options, and tips from breast cancer survivors.
Purpose:It assists patients in understanding their treatment options in order to better prepare them to make important decisions regarding their care. The author does an excellent job of describing breast cancer in layman's terms and incorporating accounts from breast cancer survivors.
Audience:The editor is a medical oncologist at the Yale Cancer Center and is the husband of a cancer survivor. The other contributors include medical oncologists, breast surgeons, radiation oncologists, and reconstructive surgeons, as well as breast cancer survivors. Although intended for breast cancer patients, it is also an excellent resource for family members of breast cancer patients as well as women at high risk for the development of breast cancer.
Features:Organized into five sections, this book begins with an overview of breast cancer. This is followed by a discussion of treatment options, the experience of having breast cancer, and narratives from breast cancer survivors, concluding with narratives from healthcare professionals who also had breast cancer. These personal accounts provide important information about the emotional aspects associated with a diagnosis of breast cancer and may help women better anticipate the difficulties of their journey.
Assessment:This is a useful book for patients and their families as it provides a good description of treatment options as well astips from breast cancer survivors.

Rebecca Raszewski - Library Journal

In 2007, there were over 170,000 new breast cancer cases, so the need for up-to-date resources continues. Drawing on the expertise of private consultants, this five-part book edited by Miller (medicine & oncology, Yale Cancer Ctr.) succeeds at being an authoritative resource for a wide audience: women who are at high risk for developing breast cancer and even those with metastatic cancer. The first two parts introduce breast cancer and its treatments; the last three parts deal with the personal experience of breast cancer. Various chapters profile doctors in specialties related to breast cancer such as radiation oncologists and plastic surgeons-there is even a chapter about doctors who are breast cancer survivors. This book effectively illustrates the disease's complexity. Readers will see how women made choices based on what was best for themselves, not on statistics. The illustrations are helpful in demonstrating how breast cancer forms and the surgical procedures. Although medical terms are defined in different sections, a glossary would have been helpful. Highly recommended for consumer health and public libraries.