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Surviving "Terminal" Cancer: Clinical Trials, Drug Cocktails and Other Treatments Your Oncologist Won't Tell You About »
Authors: Ben A. Williams
ISBN-13: 9781577491163, ISBN-10: 1577491165
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Fairview Press
Date Published: August 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Ben A. Williams
Book Synopsis
Describes how to use the Internet and other sources to learn about experimental drug trials, effective forms of alternative medicine, and other breakthroughs with the potential for dramatically improving the odds of successful treatment.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 1 | |
| I. | Round-Trip to Hades | 5 |
| Chapter 1 | Diagnosis: Glioblastoma multiforme "The Terminator" | 11 |
| Chapter 2 | Searching for Treatment | 27 |
| Chapter 3 | Improving My Odds for Survival | 45 |
| Chapter 4 | Salvaging a Life | 63 |
| Chapter 5 | Toward a Rational Treatment Strategy | 85 |
| Chapter 6 | Shared Experiences | 95 |
| II. | A System in Need of Reform | 107 |
| Chapter 7 | Conventions of the Medical System and Their Ramifications | 111 |
| Chapter 8 | Arbitrary Policies Exclude Promising Treatments | 121 |
| Chapter 9 | Ethical Implications of the Clinical Trial System | 135 |
| Chapter 10 | Phase-III Trials: Gold Standard or Fool's Gold? | 145 |
| Chapter 11 | Bastille Day for Cancer Patients | 161 |
| III. | What Your Oncologist Won't Tell You | 167 |
| Chapter 12 | Alternative Medicine | 171 |
| Chapter 13 | The Value of Supplements | 201 |
| Chapter 14 | The Cutting Edge of Cancer Treatment | 233 |
| Chapter 15 | Sources of Information | 257 |
| Index | 261 |
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