Everyone's Guide to Cancer Therapy: How Cancer Is Diagnosed, Treated, and Managed Day to Day

Ian W. Toal is a nurse in Barrie, Ontario.

The five sections in this comprehensive sourcebook, written by medical
and nursing experts, examine what cancer is and the process of cancer
diagnosis and treatment; post-diagnosis supportive care (pain
management, infection control, nutrition, etc.); strategies for
maintaining and/or improving quality of life; advances in cancer
research; and treatment procedures for 47 common types of cancer. The
last section takes up roughly half of the book.

Although thorough and detailed, the information is presented in a clear
manner. Little space is given to alternative cancer therapies, which is
not surprising given the purely medical focus of the book. However,
alternative therapies can be of great psychological help to cancer
patients, and a little more information about them would have extended
the book’s usefulness.