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The cancer dictionary, 3d ed.

Sarg and Gross present a revised reference text for cancer patients and their families designed to provide much-needed basic information to allay most common fears and address everyday concerns. Updated throughout, the latest edition of the A-to-Z text contains some 2,500 definitions and terms on cancers, their causes, stages, and treatments; diagnostic tests, therapies, and risk factors; advances in radiation treatments, chemotherapy, and pain management; current information on surgical procedures; and prevention, vaccines, and new findings on hard-to-treat cancers. It also includes appendixes on national organizations for cancer research and clinical care centers by state. Sarg practices oncology at St. Vincent's Hospital, New York City; Gross is a medical writer specializing in gerontology and head of a New York-based healthcare communications firm. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

The Facts on File encyclopedia of health and medicine; 4v.

For students in grades nine and up, general readers, and health professionals, this four-volume health reference is arranged by body system as well as topics such as pain and pain management, infectious diseases, cancer, and psychiatric disorders and psychological conditions. Each section is then organized alphabetically. The fourth volume covers topics that apply across body systems and broad areas of health care: preventive medicine, alternative and complementary approaches, genetics and molecular medicine, drugs, nutrition, exercise, human relations, surgery, lifestyle, smoking and obesity, substance abuse, and emergency and first aid. Conditions discussed address symptoms, treatment, diagnosis, risk factors, and prevention. Surgery, medication and common uses, and diagnostic procedures are also included. Only the last volume has a cumulative index. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Right to die and euthanasia, rev. ed.

This revision of the 2000 edition titled Physician-assisted Suicide and Euthanasia reflects Oregon's recent dropping of the term "physician-assisted suicide" in favor of "death with dignity" per its landmark law. A frequent contributor to Facts on File publications and other educational materials presents a balanced overview of this controversial issue, a chronology of keys events, glossary, and annotated bibliography. Appended material includes U.S. Supreme Court and state rulings, Oregon's Death with Dignity Act (1994), national and international data on assisted suicide, and attitudes toward it. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)