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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999 91(16):1418-1419; doi:10.1093/jnci/91.16.1418
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 91, No. 16, 1418-1419, August 18, 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

BOOK REVIEW

Women's Cancers: How to Prevent Them, How to Treat Them, How to Beat Them

Kerry A. McGinn, Pamela J. Haylock, eds. Alameda (CA): Hunter House Publishers, 1998. 496 pp., illus. $19.95. ISBN 0-89793-223-4.

Merle O'Rourke Thompson

Correspondence to: Merle O'Rourke Thompson, Ph.D., 6012 Morgan Ct., Alexandria, VA 22312.

In this excellent book, Kerry McGinn and Pamela Haylock use their experience as oncology nurses to give comprehensive information about the cancers that affect women most often: those that occur primarily in women (breast, ovary, uterus, cervix, vagina, and vulva cancers) and those that occur in large numbers of women (lung and colorectal cancers). McGinn has experienced breast cancer, and both authors are daughters of cancer patients. Each author handles the cancer she knows best: McGinn, breast cancer; Haylock, the reproductive, lung, and colorectal cancers.

In Part One, both authors discuss women's cancers in general, including such topics as prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and emotions. Immediately, in a discussion of what cancer is, the reader finds one of the best attributes of the book, highlighted medical words . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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