Cancers of the Mouth and Throat A Patient`s Guide to Treatment

William Lydiatt, M.D. and Perry Johnson, M.D., have worked with hundreds of mouth and throat cancer patients. They understand the emotional turmoil patients and their families go through after a cancer diagnosis, and they know how being informed can relieve some of that stress. Topics covered in this book include how early detection leaads to high cure rates; symptoms that could mean cancer; the emotional side of the cancer; how doctors make a diagnosis; staging the cancer and why it so important; surgery, radiation, and chemotherapyhow they kill cancer; reconstructive surgery; and experimental treatment through clinical trials.Lydiatt, William is the author of 'Cancers of the Mouth and Throat A Patient`s Guide to Treatment' with ISBN 9781886039445 and ISBN 1886039445.