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Recommended Books on Brain Tumors
Of God and Madness: A Historical Novel Of God and Madness is the fictional story of Adam, an emotionally troubled young man who is on a captivating spiritual journey. In this intriguing saga, Adam, struggling to make sense of God, comes of age during the tumultuous end of the Ottoman Empire. This is the story of a person who began searching for God and ended up finding himself, redeeming his spiritual journey.
Serendipity: An Uplifting and Practical Guide for Anyone Battling a Brain Tumor Multiple strategies for coping with brain cancer treatments and the unexpected joy you can find through fighting cancer. Includes information on Brain Biopsies, Radiation, Emergency Surgery, Stereotactic radio-surgery, Chemotherapy, Nutrition, Exercise, Managing Seizures, Coping with Headaches, Visualization, and Finding Joy.
Brain Tumors (Contemporary Cancer Research) (Contemporary Cancer Research) A comprehensive guide for both scientists and clinicians to recent advances in our understanding of the cellular and molecular processes involved in the initiation, progression, and clinical and biological behavior of brain tumors. The authors review the latest findings on the molecular biology, genetics, epidemiology, and pathology of brain tumors, detailing new knowledge about molecular profiling, molecular pathology and classification, in vitro and in vivo brain tumor models, brain metastasis, and progenitor cell biology. They also discuss in depth the cellular and genetic pathways involved in brain oncogenesis, malignant progression, and therapeutic response, highlighting oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes, DNA damage and repair, invasion and migration, cell cycle, growth factors, signaling, apoptosis, and developmental biology. The discussion of brain tumor therapy focuses on advances in pharmacological thinking, therapeutic modalities, novel therapeutic targets, rational drug design, gene and viral therapies, drug delivery and the blood-brain barrier, immunotherapy, and brain imaging.
The Practical Management of Low-Grade Primary Brain Tumors Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI. Text on the management of patients with low-grade brain tumors. Discusses biopsy, radical surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and untreated patients. For clinicians. Halftone illustrations. DNLM: Brain Neoplasms--therapy.
The Official Parent's Sourcebook on Childhood Brain Tumors: A Revised and Updated Directory for the Internet Age This sourcebook has been created for parents who have decided to make education and Internet-based research an integral part of the treatment process. Although it gives information useful to doctors, caregivers and other health professionals, it also tells parents where and how to look for information covering virtually all topics related to childhood brain tumors, from the essentials to the most advanced areas of research. The title of this book includes the word official. This reflects the fact that the sourcebook draws from public, academic, government, and peer-reviewed research. Selected readings from various agencies are reproduced to give you some of the latest official information available to date on childhood brain tumors. Following an introductory chapter, the sourcebook is organized into three parts. PART I: THE ESSENTIALS; Chapter 1. The Essentials on Childhood Brain Tumors: Guidelines; Chapter 2. Seeking Guidance; Chapter 3. Clinical Trials and Childhood Brain Tumors; PART II: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES AND ADVANCED MATERIAL; Chapter 4. Studies on Childhood Brain Tumors; Chapter 5. Books on Childhood Brain Tumors; Chapter 6. Multimedia on Childhood Brain Tumors; Chapter 7. Physician Guidelines and Databases; PART III. APPENDICES; Appendix A. Researching Your Child's Medications; Appendix B. Researching Alternative Medicine; Appendix C. Researching Nutrition; Appendix D. Finding Medical Libraries; Appendix E. Your Child's Rights and Insurance; Appendix F. Talking with Your Child about Cancer; ONLINE GLOSSARIES; CHILDHOOD BRAIN TUMORS GLOSSARY; INDEX. Related topics include: Acoustic schwannoma, Astrocytoma, Brain tumor metastatic, Brain tumor primary, Brain tumor secondary, Brain tumors, Brainstem glioma, Ependymoma, Glioblastoma, Hemangioblastoma, Infratentorial brain tumors, Intracranial Tumors, Neuroglioma, Primary Tumors of Central Nervous System, Primary tumors of the central nervous system, Tumor - brain - metastatic.This sourcebook has been created for parents who have decided to make education and Internet-based research an integral part of the treatment process. Although it gives information useful to doctors, caregivers and other health professionals, it also tells parents where and how to look for information covering virtually all topics related to childhood brain tumors, from the essentials to the most advanced areas of research. The title of this book includes the word official. This reflects the fact that the sourcebook draws from public, academic, government, and peer-reviewed research. Selected readings from various agencies are reproduced to give you some of the latest official information available to date on childhood brain tumors. Following an introductory chapter, the sourcebook is organized into three parts. PART I: THE ESSENTIALS; Chapter 1. The Essentials on Childhood Brain Tumors: Guidelines; Chapter 2. Seeking Guidance; Chapter 3. Clinical Trials and Childhood Brain Tumors; PART II: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES AND ADVANCED MATERIAL; Chapter 4. Studies on Childhood Brain Tumors; Chapter 5. Books on Childhood Brain Tumors; Chapter 6. Multimedia on Childhood Brain Tumors; Chapter 7. Physician Guidelines and Databases; PART III. APPENDICES; Appendix A. Researching Your Child's Medications; Appendix B. Researching Alternative Medicine; Appendix C. Researching Nutrition; Appendix D. Finding Medical Libraries; Appendix E. Your Child's Rights and Insurance; Appendix F. Talking with Your Child about Cancer; ONLINE GLOSSARIES; CHILDHOOD BRAIN TUMORS GLOSSARY; INDEX. Related topics include: Acoustic schwannoma, Astrocytoma, Brain tumor metastatic, Brain tumor primary, Brain tumor secondary, Brain tumors, Brainstem glioma, Ependymoma, Glioblastoma, Hemangioblastoma, Infratentorial brain tumors, Intracranial Tumors, Neuroglioma, Primary Tumors of Central Nervous System, Primary tumors of the central nervous system, Tumor - brain - metastatic.
100 Q&A About Brain Tumors (100 Questions Series) A patient-oriented guide to dealing with brain tumors that covers basic questions such as types of tumors, risk factors and causes.
Clinical Functional MRI: Presurgical Functional Neuroimaging (Medical Radiology / Diagnostic Imaging)
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) permits noninvasive imaging of the "human brain at work" under physiological conditions. This is the first textbook on clinical fMRI. It is devoted to preoperative fMRI in patients with brain tumors and epilepsies, which are the most well-established clinical applications. By localizing and lateralizing specific brain functions, as well as epileptogenic zones, fMRI facilitates the selection of a safe treatment and the planning and performance of function-preserving neurosurgery. State of the art fMRI procedures are presented, with detailed consideration of the physiological and methodological background, imaging and data processing, normal and pathological findings, diagnostic possibilities and limitations, and other related techniques. All chapters are written by recognized experts in their fields, and the book is designed to be of value to beginners, trained clinicians and experts alike.
One Step at a Time "One Step at a Time" is a book, keepsake and guide for coping with a child's hospitalization. It offers a unique way for a parent to ask the right questions, record important medical information, and express joy, fear and hope during a very difficult time. And most important, it encourages parents to take care of themselves physically, emotionally and spiritually.
Never Change Elizabeth Berg has a single great gift as a novelist. She creates heroines who are stuck and unhappy, yet deeply sympathetic. This may seem like an easy trick to pull off, but it's not. Think about it: usually when a character is mired in a problem--especially a problem stemming from her own reluctance to change, or fear of commitment, or lack of identity--the reader is ready within a few dozen pages to shout, "Pull yourself together!" and set the book aside. In contrast, Berg's characters seem like enjoyable challenges: problems with actual solutions.
In Never Change, Berg uses her gift to great advantage. Middle-aged Myra Lipinsky describes herself as "the one who sat on a folding chair out in the hall with a cigar box on my lap selling tickets to the prom, but never going." And despite a flourishing career as a visiting nurse, she feels as much an also-ran as ever. As the novel begins, in fact, high school seems to be rearing its ugly head again: Chip Reardon, the heartthrob of Myra's youth, has returned to town to live with his parents. Chip is dying from a brain tumor, and Myra becomes his nurse. Berg is not the kind of writer to lay bare the unsettling power dynamics of such a situation. Instead, Chip and Myra become friends and, well, learn how to love each other. It's a testament to the author's strong sense of character that we actually believe--and what's more, care about--Myra's emergence from her emotional cocoon. And the book is full of nice details, like this snapshot of children being read to at a library, "rising up on their knees to see the pictures, resting their hands unselfconsciously on those ahead of them so that they would not lose their balance." Such careful observations, recounted in Myra's voice, make us believe that she is a character worth knowing, and worth saving. --Claire Dederer You know people like me. I'm the one who sat in a folding chair out in the hall selling tickets to the prom but never going, the one everybody liked but no one wanted to be with. A self-anointed spinster at fifty-one, Myra Lipinsky has endured the isolation of her middle life by doting on her dog, Frank, and immersing herself in her career as a visiting nurse. Myra considers herself reasonably content, telling herself, It's enough, work and Frank. And it has been enough -- until Chip Reardon, the too-good-to-be-true golden boy she adored from afar, is assigned to be her new patient. Choosing to forgo invasive treatment for an incurable illness, Chip has returned from Manhattan to the New England home of his childhood to spend what time he has left. Now, Myra and Chip find themselves engaged in a poingnant redefinition of roles, and a complicated dance of memory, ambivalence, and longing.
From the author whose work The New Yorker calls "strong" and "timeless" comes a wry and beautifully distilled portrait of one woman's resilience in the face of loneliness, and of a union that transcends life's most unexpected and challenging circumstances. With effortless warmth, and loving respect for characters that defies easy sentiment, Never Change melds the emotional depth and gentle intensity of poetry with the rich satisfactions of finely wrought fiction.You know people like me. I'm the one who sat in a folding chair out in the hall selling tickets to the prom but never going, the one everybody liked but no one wanted to be with. A self-anointed spinster at fifty-one, Myra Lipinsky has endured the isolation of her middle life by doting on her dog, Frank, and immersing herself in her career as a visiting nurse. Myra considers herself reasonably content, telling herself, It's enough, work and Frank. And it has been enough -- until Chip Reardon, the too-good-to-be-true golden boy she adored from afar, is assigned to be her new patient. Choosing to forgo invasive treatment for an incurable illness, Chip has returned from Manhattan to the New England home of his childhood to spend what time he has left. Now, Myra and Chip find themselves engaged in a poingnant redefinition of roles, and a complicated dance of memory, ambivalence, and longing.
Neuro-Oncology: The Essentials This completely updated new edition covers all the basics of neuro-oncology in a format that offers quick access to information. You'll find penetrating analysis of epidemiology, pathology, imaging and other investigation, and all aspects of surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and biological therapy of gliomas, metastatic disease, and selected other tumors. Each chapter is written by a well-respected authority in the field and reflects the editorial vision of two neuro-oncology's leading researchers and practitioners.
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