Table of Contents

When Cancer Hits Home

PART I—REDUCE YOUR CANCER RISK
• Avoid Major Mistakes
• Fuel Up Your Defense
• Take the Ball by the Horns
• The Next Best Thing

PART II— CANCER TREATMENT OPTIONS FOR THE 20 MOST COMMON TYPES
• Essentials of Cancer Diagnosis, Staging and Treatment…..
• Bladder Cancer and Miles’s Story
• Brain Tumors, Primary and Metastatic, and Billy and Anne’s Stories
• Breast Cancer and Pamela’s Story
• Colorectal Cancer and Roberto’s Story
• Esophageal Cancer and Jimmy’s Story
• Head and Neck Cancer and Clarence’s Story
• Kidney Cancer and Sally’s Story
• Leukemia and Tim’s Story
• Liver Cancer and Joey’s Story
• Lung Cancer and Billy’s Story
• Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin, and Mary’s Story
• Melanoma and Dale’s Story
• Myeloma and Norman’s Story
• Ovarian Cancer and Carol’s Story
• Pancreatic Cancer and Jerry’s Story
• Prostate Cancer and James’s Story
• Skin Cancer, Nonmelanoma and Betty’s Story
• Stomach Cancer and Frank’s Story
• Thyroid Cancer and Peggy’s Story
• Uterine Cancer and Bonnie’s Story

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