Heart Disease and Cancer: Books

Presents an introduction to heart disease, examining the ways in which it develops, its symptoms and diagnosis, the effects it has on a person's daily life, and improvements in medicinal and surgical treatments.

General information about heart disease.

Discusses the heart, how it works, and the diseases that can attack it, as well as how to prevent them, detect them, and treat them.

Describes the workings of the heart and the circulatory system and the array of ailments that can affect them, discussing symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.

General information about cerebrovascular disease.

This book discusses testicular cancer covering risks, detection, and treatments.

Explores history, causes, symptoms, treatments and future of skin cancer.

Describes the risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of cervical cancer.

This book describes colon cancer, presenting information on screening measures, staging of colon cancer, and treatment for colon cancer.

This book identifies lymphoma as a group of various cancers that affect the lymphatic system, explains Hodgkin's disease and the broad category of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and describes two major types of treatment used for lymphoma.

This book identifies three main types of skin cancer, describes the risk factors for the disease, and explains both the prevention and the treatments of skin cancer.

What is life like with lung cancer? -- Defining the disease -- The history of lung cancer -- Coping with lung cancer -- What are ways to cope with depression?

This book discusses the risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, and survival rates of breast cancer, as well as research on the disease.

Explains what chemotherapy is, how it works, what the side effects are, and how to counteract them.

An introduction to breast cancer that explains what it is and what causes it, and describes diagnosis, treatment options, and what it is like to live with the disease.

This book describes the stages of cervical cancer presenting information on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

This book describes liver cancer presenting information on symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, and research.

This book takes a clinical look at ovarian cancer, the cellular processes involved, the common ways of detecting and treating the disease, and cutting-edge medical advances and scientific breakthroughs that are leading to better methods of detection and improved treatment therapies.

This book describes types of bone cancer, explains how bone cancer is detected and diagnosed, and discusses treatment options for the types of bone cancer.

Explains how prostate cancer is detected, diagnosed and treated.

Discusses diagnosis and treatment of skin cancer.

This book identifies breast cancer as a disease of genes, describes the detection of breast cancer through mammography, and discusses the treatments for this disease.

This book identifies two major types of lung cancer, details the carcinogens that cause lung cancer, and discusses both methods of prevention and methods of treatment for this disease.

This book discusses the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the prostate; explains how prostate cancer develops; and describes treatment options once prostate cancer has been diagnosed.

Examines what is known about cancer cells and current cancer research.

General information about ovarian cancer.

This book discusses the impact of chemotherapy as a treatment for cancer, its history and development, challenges it presents, and future research.

Presents the life and accomplishments of the Polish-born chemist, discussing her methods of scientific research, discovery of radium, and its use as a treatment for cancer.