Cancers Of The Head And Neck: From Diagnosis To Treatment - 9781943886821

William Lydiatt, M.D. and Perry Johnson, M.D., have worked with hundreds of mouth and throat cancer patients. They understand the emotional turmoil patients and their families go through after a cancer diagnosis, and they know how being informed can relieve some of that stress. Topics covered in this book include: how early detection leads to high cure rates; symptoms that could mean cancer; the emotional side of the cancer; how doctors make a diagnosis; staging the cancer and why it so important; surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy; new treatments in immunotherapy and targeted therapies: reconstructive surgery; and experimental treatment through clinical trials--

• | Author: Perry Johnson, William M. Lydiatt
• | Publisher: Addicus Books
• | Publication Date: Mar 30, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 190 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1943886822
• | ISBN-13: 9781943886821