Claudia Cornwall

Battling Melanoma

One Couple's Struggle from Diagnosis to Cure

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Melanoma is a deadly disease, and rates of diagnosis have been rising for the last 30 years. Here Claudia Cornwall details the quest to find a cure for her husband, and the information about melanoma treatment they discover along the way.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781442245150
• ISBN-10: 1442245158
• Artikelnr.: 42812845

Autorenporträt

Claudia Cornwall, a freelance writer for over 25 years, has written six books and many magazine articles. Her memoir, Letter from Vienna: A Daughter Uncovers her Family's Jewish Past, won a BC Book Prize for best non-fiction. Her biography, At the World's Edge: Curt Lang's Vancouver, 1937-1998 was a finalist for the 2012 Vancouver Book Award. Her medical history, Catching Cancer: The Quest for Its Viral and Bacterial Causes, was selected by the American Library Association's publication, Booklist, as one of the best books of 2013 and short-listed for the Canadian Science Writers' Association Book Awards (2013). Claudia also teaches in Simon Fraser University's Writer's Studio.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Black Tumor 1 A pimple-like thing 2
What's real and what isn't? 3 I will always love you 4 No oncologist will
see you 5 Don't worry about it 6 We have no way of monitoring success 7 The
iconoclast: a visit with James Allison 8 A cloud of uncertainty 9 A hairy
week so far 10 It's not brain surgery 11 The first hill 12 Because I am an
optimist 13 We have two slots left 14 An unexpected molecule 15 You've got
to be kidding! 16 Now there are all of you Bibliography