This is one of those books that you don't need until you need it! But once you have a copy in the family, you'll probably find that it gets passed around alot to share with friends and family!
Synopsis: Patrick and his wife know cancer all too well. Between 2001 and 2007, they lost all four parents, three of them to cancers of the lung, prostate, and stomach. Caring for his loved ones during their cancer journeys brought him to realize the need for a single reliable source of information about cancer for patients and their families: When Cancer Hits Home. Dr. Maguire's motto is "an empowered patient is the best weapon against cancer."
When Cancer Hits Home is the commonsense guide to common cancers. It fills the gap between the many survivor biographies and technical references in the marketplace today. Written by an oncologist who lost multiple family members to cancer, this inspirational guidebook informs and empowers in layman's terms, using minimal medical jargon. The author tackles controversial topics and gives the reader concise, actionable, and up-to-date information on strategies for reducing cancer risk and options for treatment of the top twenty cancers in America.
Touching patient stories accompany the description of each cancer type. Patients and their loved ones will find the book to be an invaluable resource for navigating these treacherous waters.
About the Author: Patrick David Maguire grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He received his degree in English literature from Haverford College and his MD from Penn State College of Medicine, where he won the Medical Student Humanitarian Award in 1994. He completed his cancer specialty training at Duke University Medical Center in 2000.
Since that time, Dr. Maguire has been caring for patients diagnosed with cancer in coastal North Carolina, where he won the American Cancer Society's Silent Angel Award in 2006. He has published scientific articles on the treatment of multiple cancer types. He does some of his best thinking while running and has run marathons in Myrtle Beach and Boston. For more information about Dr. Maguire or When Cancer Hits Home, please visit THECANCERMD.com.
Review: The author gives you advice on how to reduce your cancer risk, then gets into 20 common types of cancer. Each cahpter on cancer starts with a patient story, then goes into statistics, then risks and causes, then signs and symptoms, and then onto diagnosis. Maguire then talks about the different stages and treatments. He then ends each chapter with the follow up/end of the patient's story, from the beginning of the chapter.
Maguire gives really great advice and you feel like you have an advocate making sure you/your family is making the right choices and being told what is actually going on.
I highly recommend this book, should you and yours, unfortunately are facing this situation! It can be an invaluable resource.
Disclosure / Disclaimer: I received this book, free of charge, from the author via Bostick Communications, for review purposes on this blog. No other compensation, monetary or in kind, has been received or implied for this post. Nor was I told how to post about it.
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When Cancer Hits Home is the commonsense guide to common cancers. It fills the gap between the many survivor biographies and technical references in the marketplace today. Written by an oncologist who lost multiple family members to cancer, this inspirational guidebook informs and empowers in layman's terms, using minimal medical jargon. The author tackles controversial topics and gives the reader concise, actionable, and up-to-date information on strategies for reducing cancer risk and options for treatment of the top twenty cancers in America.
Touching patient stories accompany the description of each cancer type. Patients and their loved ones will find the book to be an invaluable resource for navigating these treacherous waters.
About the Author: Patrick David Maguire grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He received his degree in English literature from Haverford College and his MD from Penn State College of Medicine, where he won the Medical Student Humanitarian Award in 1994. He completed his cancer specialty training at Duke University Medical Center in 2000.
Since that time, Dr. Maguire has been caring for patients diagnosed with cancer in coastal North Carolina, where he won the American Cancer Society's Silent Angel Award in 2006. He has published scientific articles on the treatment of multiple cancer types. He does some of his best thinking while running and has run marathons in Myrtle Beach and Boston. For more information about Dr. Maguire or When Cancer Hits Home, please visit THECANCERMD.com.
Review: The author gives you advice on how to reduce your cancer risk, then gets into 20 common types of cancer. Each cahpter on cancer starts with a patient story, then goes into statistics, then risks and causes, then signs and symptoms, and then onto diagnosis. Maguire then talks about the different stages and treatments. He then ends each chapter with the follow up/end of the patient's story, from the beginning of the chapter.
Maguire gives really great advice and you feel like you have an advocate making sure you/your family is making the right choices and being told what is actually going on.
I highly recommend this book, should you and yours, unfortunately are facing this situation! It can be an invaluable resource.
Disclosure / Disclaimer: I received this book, free of charge, from the author via Bostick Communications, for review purposes on this blog. No other compensation, monetary or in kind, has been received or implied for this post. Nor was I told how to post about it.
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Great review it is. I appreciate this book related to Cancer. This book tells us about when anyone in our family is suffer with this cancer then how we take care of them. Thanks for such a nice book. Thanks to author and to the reviewer.
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