Your Guide to Treatment and Research
By addressing the basic questions, ranging from what cancer is to how it is treated, 'Conquering Cancer' provides the tools to enable patients to ask their own questions. It details how far we have come in controlling and conquering cancer, the place of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy in treating it, and points to the direction of research into new types of treatment.
Cancer research is an exciting and rapidly expanding field which justifiably provides great hope to those people who are living with cancer. Using language that requires no special knowledge, this book describes the latest advances in cancer research and our current understanding of the disease - what it is, what causes it, and how it is diagnosed and treated. It also discusses the role of prevention and simple lifestyle changes we can make to decrease our risk of developing cancer.