Thyroid Cancer: A Guide for Patients
Product Description
This book is a valuable and extensive source of information about thyroid cancer and is specifically written for the patient with thyroid cancer. However, family and friends of patients who have thyroid cancer will also find this book useful.
The book discusses a wide spectrum of aspects about thyroid nodules and cancer. It is discusses the basics of the thyroid gland, the evaluation of thyroid nodules, the various types of thyroid cancer, their prognosis, and the initial diagnostic evaluation and treatment of the four major types of thyroid cancer. This includes the role of surgery and other treatments. The book also discusses diets, hormone treatment, and thyroid cancer in children and adolescents. One chapter presents the personal stories of several patients, who have or have had thyroid cancer, as well as a discussion by a pyschologist and psychiatrist. The book concludes with chapters on additional treatment alternatives, information on clinical research trials, and additional sources of information.
The book is organized and indexed to help the patient or the patient’s family or friends find information that may be important for them.
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Thyroid Cancer: A Guide for Patients sets out to inform patients at their own pace, and in language they can easily understand. The book is organized into easily accessible chapters, each written by experts in their respective fields. Segments can be read as the need or desire arises – often newly diagnosed persons require this flexibility as they can not take in complex information all at once.
The guide begins with a supportive and reassuring introduction and works its way through a discussion of the thyroid gland and its functions, diagnosis, and surgery. The editors include an in-depth description of radioactive iodine treatment, the interpretations of scans, and side effects from surgery and treatment. However, international readers should be cautioned that some information is more applicable to an American audience.
What sets this book apart from other thyroid cancer resources is the authors’ ability to anticipate patients’ specific questions. Thyroid Cancer: A Guide for Patients strikes a balance between professional information and understandable terminology. The editors especially encourage patients to read the chapter containing patients’ commentaries. These commentaries contain reassuring first-hand accounts from those living with the disease. Also important are the segments detailing treatment of the rarer forms of Medullary and Anaplastic thyroid cancer.
Thyroid Cancer: A Guide for Patients is a comprehensive and complete resource – a welcomed addition to any thyroid cancer patient’s library.
Rita Banach, B.Sc., D.C.S.
President, Canadian Thyroid Cancer Support Group (Thry’vors) Inc.
Rating: 4 / 5
Thyroid Cancer: A Guide for Patients
My wife was recently diagnosed with thyroid cancer and I bought this book to learn more about her disease. The book is well written and understandable to the layman and it accomplished almost everything I had hoped for.
There are, however, a few minor issues. First, the book was written by a number of different people and it could be better organized. It is frequently repetitive.
Second, and more important at least to me, I found a great deal of useful information about various aspects of thyroid cancer — detection, surgery, ablation, and long term treatment — but they were poorly tied together and did not give me an overall view of the progress of things. I was often left to figure out what sequence things happen in and how they affect each other.
Finally, and possibly most important, the book is written for the cancer patient and does not address caregiver’s issues at all. Although as a caregiver, I need to understand patient concerns and problems, I have my own issues to deal with and I was hoping for some help. I’m still looking for that help.
In summary — if you or someone close to you has thyroid cancer — this book is essential and very worthwhile. Just don’t expect it to be perfect.
Rating: 4 / 5
Thyroid Cancer: A Guide for Patients
This book is a fabulous resource for people who have thyroid cancer. It is also very useful for their caregivers. Although there is some technical information, most of the book is geared to the lay person with medical jargon explained in lay terms. The book details various surgeries, treatments, tests and testing procedures necessary for patients. If you ever have a question about what you need to do to get through the journey that begins with the diagnosis of thyroid cancer this is the place to get your answers.
Rating: 5 / 5
Thyroid Cancer: A Guide for Patients
This is a great book for anyone going through Thyroid Cancer surgery and treatments. I bought 3 books, one for myself and one each for my parents. My family had a lot of question about the cancer and treatment. When you’re post-op and hypothyroid it’s difficult to explain over and over what is happening to you. My mother found that the book was very easy for her to understand and it answered her questions regarding the cancer and treatments. I found that it was very useful while going through the surgeries and treatments as a reference book. The book answered a lot of my questions. I learned about the book through the Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ website http://www.ThyCa.org. Using both the book and the website helped me get through it all.
Rating: 5 / 5
Thyroid Cancer: A Guide for Patients
If you were confused by the bombardment of info your endo piled onto you upon your diagnosis, this is the book to sort things out and–most importantly–take the fear of the unkown away.
Information is key, and information in an easily read and understood format is what you get with this book. You don’t need to sit down and read it cover to cover, in fact, the book does not recommend that you do that, but it’s there to answer specific questions you will have, not just now, but at any time in the years to come.
Someone commented that the book does not addess the fears and concerns of family members. I think it does, since the fears of the patient aren’t all that different from those of close family members. At least that has been my experience from now both sides of the fence. And the book lists contact info for support groups both online and in major cities across the country.
If you’re reading this review, clearly you’re not someone who sticks his or her head in the sand, and that tells me that you will greatly benefit from this book.
Rating: 5 / 5
Thyroid Cancer: A Guide for Patients