Lung Cancer Chronicles / / John Meyer, M.D.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyer, M.D., John, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, [1990]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Imprinting

2. Epidemic

3. Enumeration

4. Some Young Patients

5. Youth Is Different

6. Natural History of the Disease

7. Why Me?

8. Diagnosis

9. Primary Treatment

10. Secondary Treatment

11. Several Unsuccessful Cases

12. Several Successful Cases

13. Factors of Curability

14. The Variant: Small-Cell Carcinoma

15. Reasonable Therapeutic Intensity

16. Product Liability

17. Addiction

18. Unorthodox or "Alternative" Treatment

19. Economics, Government, and the Media

20. Prospects for the Future

Appendix A. Doubling Time as a Measure of Tumor Growth Rate

Appendix B. Histologic Types

Appendix C. Chest X-Rays and Computerized Tomography

Notes

Glossary

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023)

ISBN:

0-8135-5733-X