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The work includes valuable appendices including a glossary of terms, suggestions for further reading, questions to ask doctors, tips on assisting those with serious illness, and a patient's bill of rights.

This book is a helpful guide to detecting breast cancer, dealing with it physically and emotionally, and surviving it.

(Paperback)

The work includes valuable appendices including a glossary of terms, suggestions for further reading, questions to ask doctors, tips on assisting those with serious illness, and a patient's bill of rights.

This book is a helpful guide to detecting breast cancer, dealing with it physically and emotionally, and surviving it.

(Hardback)

As our population ages and fears about dementia, Alzheimers, and related brain problems continue to grow, this book will help shed light on how the brain functions, what we can do to prevent the most severe symptoms of aging, and steps we can take to ward off disease.

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Cancer is a word filled with foreboding. Here, two distinguished oncologists explain its mysteries in lucid, straightforward language that allays fears and puts the disease clearly into perspective.

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A six-step, practical guide that helps you through the first few weeks following diagnosis.

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Stand-up comedian Robert Schimmel's edgy, hilarious, and poignant musings on his battle with cancer

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In this intimate and inspiring memoir, the Emmy( Award-winning talk show host reveals how his shocking 1999 diagnosis of multiple sclerosis changed his life, how to inform friends and family, understanding and living with MS, physical and mental exercises, and more.

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This cutting-edge, comprehensive guide to diabetes and prediabetes treatment is presented by a world-renowned physician.

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A completely updated and revised edition answers all the important questions and offers practical coping strategies to help those with lupus live their lives to the fullest.

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This guide for patients facing serious illnesses for which the path to wellness is unclear explains some of the influences that may prompt physicians to recommend futile treatments and describes specific ways of obtaining information to get a clear idea of all available options.

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Dementia and Alzheimers helps families, counsellors, friends and businesses to deal with the sudden rise of progressive brain deterioration in several forms of dementia, which is expected to affect many hundreds of thousands of adults in the coming years.

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When a loved one has been diagnosed with dementia, many family members assume new roles as carers, helping their relative to remain safe, happy and as independent as possible. This title helps you and the person with dementia on the journey ahead.

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This is a guide to diabetes for the newly diagnosed patient. It covers such areas as: adjusting to the emotional impact of diabetes; making decisions about diet; exercise; types of medication; finding the best care; and facing uncertainty surrounding complications and their effect.

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Australians have embraced antidepressants: twelve million prescriptions are written annually, mostly by GPs. But, what do we really know of the pills' effects This is a memoir of the nightmarish three years the author endured as she was repeatedly misdiagnosed, only to realise that her medication was the cause of her mental deterioration.

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The most comprehensive handbook of up-to-date advice and information for sufferers of Endometriosis, a debilitating disease which affects approximately one in ten women.