Cancer: A Medical and Spiritual Guide for Patients and Their Families
Author: William A Fintel
Modern medicine has made amazing advances in the treatment of cancer, but most people still react with shock and fear when they receive the diagnosis. Cancer doesn't just affect the patient physically; it has emotional and spiritual implications as well. This comprehensive guide to cancer from a Christian perspective combines the hands-on experience of a medical doctor with the wisdom and compassion of a theologian. The book surveys a variety of topics including:
-cancer testing, diagnosis, and treatments
-alternative therapies
-the mind-body connection
-faith, fear, healing, and doubts
-life after the diagnosis
Written in accessible language, this complete manual will help cancer patients as well as their families and friends. It is an essential resource for pastors, counselors, Stephen ministers, and hospice groups.
Table of Contents:
Foreword | 5 | |
Introduction: Why This Book? | 7 | |
1. | What Is Cancer? How Good Cells Go Wrong | 11 |
2. | What Causes Cancer? Biological, Environmental, and Lifestyle Triggers | 22 |
3. | Has It Spread? How Far? Tests and Procedures You Might Expect | 38 |
4. | What Kind of Cancer Is It? Six Common Types of Cancer | 60 |
Breast Cancer | 61 | |
Lung Cancer | 88 | |
Prostate Cancer | 98 | |
Colon and Rectal Cancer | 109 | |
Ovarian Cancer | 121 | |
Skin Cancer: Melanoma | 129 | |
5. | What Can You Do for Me, Doc? Surgery, Radiation, Chemotherapy, and Biological Treatments | 139 |
6. | What Are My Rights? What to Expect as a Cancer Patient | 168 |
7. | What about Alternative Medicine? Sorting Out True from False Promises | 176 |
8. | Is There a Mind-Body Connection? What to Think of Some of Its Most Prominent Proponents | 195 |
9. | Dare I Hope for Healing? A Balanced Approach to the Possibility of Getting Well | 212 |
10. | Why Me, God? The Age-Old Problem of Evil--And Some Answers We Can't Accept | 238 |
11. | Is Cancer Part of God's Plan? Some Promising Answers to the Age-Old Question | 244 |
12. | What to Think When There Are No Answers: Coming to Terms with God's Mystery | 260 |
13. | How Do I Cope? Sources of Spiritual Peace and Strength | 265 |
14. | Why Not Suicide? Another Look at the Kevorkian Approach | 283 |
15. | What Is Hospice? Dying with Dignity | 299 |
16. | Is There Life after Cancer? How to Live Day to Day Once Everything Has Changed | 308 |
Appendix A | A Little Peek at Cellular Transcription and Translation | 325 |
Appendix B | Interventional Radiologists | 331 |
Appendix C | Important Sources for Cancer Support | 335 |
Notes | 339 | |
Index | 345 |
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AyurVedic Cooking for Westerners: Familiar Western Food Prepared with AyurVedic Principles
Author: Amadea Morningstar
Amadea Morningstar, co-author of the bestselling Ayurvedic Cookbook, received many requests for Western recipes that utilized Ayurvedic principles. Well, here it is! This is a "one of a kind" book that is sure to be a strong bestseller and represents a dramatic enhancement for people who want to practice Ayurvedic health practices in the West.
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