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Cancer Clinical Trials: A Commonsense Guide to Experimental Cancer Therapies and Clinical Trials
Author(s): M.d. Beer, Tomasz M. (Author), Larry W. Axmaker (Author)
- Publisher: Diamed Llc
- Publication Date: 22 May 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 166 pages
- ISBN-10: 098232197X
- ISBN-13: 9780982321973
Book Description
The book begins with a discussion of what cancer is and the many ways in which it is treated ? including surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and new strategies now in use or that will be available in the near future. It considers all aspects of clinical trials, including how they are designed, how to find and evaluate them, how to become a participant, and details of what they will involve in terms of time and commitment. A chapter on available drugs now used to treat cancer will be especially helpful.
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About the Author
It is Tom’s hope is that this book will help readers enter into the often mysterious world of clinical trials armed with information and well prepared to make needed decisions.
Larry W. Axmaker, Ed.D., is a retired psychologist, teacher, and writer who has cancer (prostate) and has participated in several clinical trials. He recently published a book about prostate cancer entitled Real Men Get Prostate Cancer Too that chronicles his sometimes serious, sometimes humorous journey with his cancer.
