Mesothelioma The Patient's Dilemma (Your Personal Health) Paperback – April 1, 2000
Mesothelioma The Patient's Dilemma (Your Personal Health) Paperback – April 1, 2000
Williams was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1988 and went through the
regular gamut of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. As the subtitle
suggests, however, she focuses on the dilemma posed by the choices of
therapies rather than on which therapies are best. She reports many case
histories of patients who underwent regular and alternative treatments
or both. Some of the regular treatment stories she tells are truly
horrific tales of missed diagnoses, chemo given unnecessarily,
infections at operative sties, impersonal care, and refusal to answer
questions and produce medical records. She is fair-minded though, and
shows that not all alternative-therapy patients improve and not all
regular-therapy patients meet disaster. She spends much of the book
describing the patients and facilities of the Immuno-Augmentative
Therapy Clinic in Freetown, Grand Bahama. She points out holes in the
science and ethics of clinical trials and punctures the dismissiveness
that commonly greets alternative-therapy success. Patients
must inform themselves, she says, choose the method that fits their
needs, and stand firm. (William Beatty
Booklist 2000-06-01)
Deserves wider attention for the way it addresses the issues that cancer patients face after diagnosis. (Alan Caruba
Bookviews 2000-07-28)
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Mesothelioma The Patient's Dilemma (Your Personal Health) Paperback – April 1, 2000