For lung cancer sufferers, their caregivers, and those at high risk for lung cancer, this volume offers information about testing, alternative therapies, clinical trials, and staying healthy, as well as a medical overview of the disease.
The first hands-on guide to living and coping with an insidious disease that affects tens of millions of people. In this clear, concise, and up-to-date guide to dealing with and living well with COPD, readers will learn how to navigate activities of daily living, how to quit smoking, how oxygen therapy may help you, how to tailor diet to meet new nutritional needs, and much more.
Lung Cancer: Making Sense of Diagnosis, Treatment and Options is the most comprehensive guide to lung cancer on the market. Everything from understanding your diagnosis to learning from other survivors is included.
A young boy describes what it is like to have asthma, what happens during an asthma attack, and how his asthma can be treated and controlled. This color illustrated children's book helps provide an emotionally safe school environment; thus allowing classmates to view children with asthma as normal kids who just happen to have asthma, at no fault of their own.
This informative book covers long-term conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, emphysema, asthma, and arthritis. Information for this text was gathered in a 5-year study at Stanford Univ., CA. This edition includes revised sections on exercise, nutrition, power of the mind to manage symptoms, and sexual intimacy. Drawing on input from people with long-term ailments, this book points the way to achieving the best possible life under the circumstances.
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