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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999 91(24):2124-2125; doi:10.1093/jnci/91.24.2124
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 91, No. 24, 2124-2125, December 15, 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

BOOK REVIEW

Understanding Cancer: A Patient's Guide to Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment

C. Norman Coleman. Baltimore (MD): The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 186 pp., $32.50. ISBN 0-8018-6019-9

Merle O'Rourke Thompson

Correspondence to: Merle O'Rourke Thompson, Ph.D., 6012 Morgan Ct., Alexandria VA 22312 (e-mail: merlethompson@compuserve.com).

Dr. C. Norman Coleman, a Harvard professor trained at Yale in medical oncology and radiology, seems to be an interesting, compassionate man. In her introduction, Ellen Stoval, Executive Director of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, says that he was the one expert on a federal panel of cancer care specialists who made her feel as though he had learned something from her, a lay person and 26-year cancer survivor. In his book, Dr. Coleman shows that he is able to listen to patients and to moderate his medical practice to take their needs into consideration. Understanding that it is very hard for newly diagnosed cancer patients to concentrate on much of anything . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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