How Cancer Works
Author: Lauren Sompayrac
Lauren Sompayrac explains the basics of cancer: what it is, what it does, and what is being done to try to cure it.
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Reviewer: Michele Lynn Thomas, RN (Union Hospital)
Description: This book discusses what causes cancer, how it affects patients, and the treatments. The author presents the information in terms that even a nonmedical reader could understand.
Purpose: The book gives an overview of cancer, then discusses nine "model" cancers to show how cancer works. The book is useful because it explains cancer in the simplest terms and the author meets her objectives.
Audience: It is written for healthcare professionals in the field of oncology, students, and can be understood by laypersons. The author knows how to format the information to maximize understanding.
Features: After an overview of cancer, the author goes through several types of cancer and explains causes, effects, and treatment for each type. The author gives good illustrations of how mutations occur. The drawings reinforce the information. However, some of the information on chromosomes could have been simplified.
Assessment: The book would be useful for a new nurse entering the field, a patient, or family member of a patient diagnosed with cancer as well as any reader who wants to learn more about cancer and its effects.
Rating
4 Stars! from Doody
Table of Contents:
| About This Book | 1 | |
| Lecture 1 | An Overview | 3 |
| Lecture 2 | Leukemia | 9 |
| Lecture 3 | Lymphoma | 25 |
| Lecture 4 | Breast and Prostate Cancer | 35 |
| Lecture 5 | Lung and Skin Cancer | 51 |
| Lecture 6 | Colon Cancer | 63 |
| Lecture 7 | Cancer of the Cervix and the Liver | 75 |
| Lecture 8 | Cancer and the Immune System | 85 |
| Lecture 9 | Cancer in the Future | 93 |
| Glossary | 103 | |
| Index | 105 |
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American Dietetic Association Guide to Healthy Eating for Kids: How Your Children Can Eat Smart from Five to Twelve
Author: American Dietetic Association ADA
What your kids should eat to get a real nutritional edge
"This is a book every parent can use and appreciate."
–Julie O’Sullivan Maillet, PhD, RD
President, American Dietetic Association
Does your grade-schooler ever trade away his lunch? Does she only pick at her dinner at home, or complain she doesn’t like what’s set before her? The grade-school years are nutritionally a very important time for children, and getting your child to eat healthy and make smart choices can be a challenge.
Written with the full support of the American Dietetic Association, the American Dietetic Association Guide to Healthy Eating for Kids arms you with practical skills to make sure your kids are eating right even when they’re not under your roof. Jodie Shield and Mary Catherine Mullen are mothers as well as registered dietitians with more than twenty years of professional experience in childhood nutrition. Their five-star system offers hands-on advice on how to turn eating dilemmas into fun, nutritionally educational opportunities. Whether your child is a breakfast skipper, an unreasonable eater, a lunch trader, or even a snack-a-holic, you’ll find fast, real-life solutions for transforming eating habits, including:
Banishing brown bag boredom • Secrets of successful family meals • Smart snacks for hungry kids • The top nutrition mistakes parents make • Fueling your grade-schooler for fitness • The principles of menu planning • Breakfast basics for busy families • Teaching smart nutrition to your young athlete • Developing a gold-star feeding relationship with your child
Offering deliciousrecipes your child won’t be able to resist, this timely reference gives you all the nutrition knowledge you need to teach your child how to eat smart–now and for the rest of his or her life.
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