The Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer

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Every year more than one million people in the U.S. learn that they have cancer. This diagnosis is no longer an automatic death sentence.

Research has provided improved diagnostic and treatment methods that lead to cures in many cases. Understanding that cancer is in fact

a generic name for many different diseases and learning how it occurs and spreads will help patients make decisions about treatment.

This encyclopedia, compiled by physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and medical writers, provides detailed information about the various kinds

of cancer (Acute myelocytic leukemia, Ovarian cancer); diagnostic procedures (Biopsy, Upper GI series); drugs (Capecitabine, Marijuana );

treatments (Colectomy, Bone marrow transplantation); and scientific concepts (Cancer biology, Chromosome rearrangements). The signed,

alphabetical entries range in length from one paragraph to several pages. The longer articles have shaded boxes with definitions of key

terms and questions to ask the doctor. They also have resource lists. More than 200 illustrations, photographs, and charts augment the text.

A set of anatomical diagrams highlighting the organ systems appears in the front of each volume. Three appendixes provide lists of National

Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers, national support groups, and government agencies and research groups.

Because this encyclopedia focuses on cancer, it provides more detailed information about specific cancers and their treatments, including

alternative and complementary therapies, than the The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine (Gale, 2001). Some of the articles on procedures

(for example, angiography) are taken from that title. The Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer has more color photographs and scanning electron

micrographs. It also has information about rare cancers, like choriocarcinoma, that do not appear in most lay cancer resources.

This set emphasizes scientific and clinical information. It does not address practical considerations and quality-of-life issues in detail.

Informed Decisions: The Complete Guide to Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment, and Recovery (American Cancer Society, 2001) does this, along with

providing current basic clinical and scientific information at a fraction of the cost. But consumer health collections and large public

libraries with sufficient funds and the need for a comprehensive lay cancer source will want to consider the Gale set. RBB

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