Mesothelioma The Patient's Dilemma (Your Personal Health) Paperback – April 1, 2000

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