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This complete guide to cancer from a Christian perspective offers medical information, spiritual encouragement, and much-needed support.

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William Fintel (M.D.) is a practicing oncologist in the Blue Ridge mountains of southwest Virginia and medical director of Good Samaritan Hospice in Roanoke.

Gerald McDermott (Ph.D., University of Iowa) is professor of religion and philosophy at Roanoke College. He has authored several books.

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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.

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ISBN: 0801065011
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date: June 2004
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Comments from the Seller: covers clean and crisp,interior is clean and bright,binding is tight,a very nice copy throughout

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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