The Myeloma Beacon » Books http://www.myelomabeacon.com Multiple myeloma news, resources, and online forums for patients, caregivers, and others interested in multiple myeloma. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:37:57 +0000 en hourly 1 Living With Multiple Myeloma http://www.myelomabeacon.com/resources/2010/04/08/living-with-multiple-myeloma-2/ http://www.myelomabeacon.com/resources/2010/04/08/living-with-multiple-myeloma-2/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:46:25 +0000 Admin http://www.myelomabeacon.com/?p=9285
Author: Pat Killingsworth
Book Description: Living with Multiple Myeloma is about Pat’s struggle to cope with his unexpected illness.  But the book is more than an inspirational

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Author: Pat Killingsworth
Book Description: Living with Multiple Myeloma is about Pat’s struggle to cope with his unexpected illness.  But the book is more than an inspirational memoir.  Living with Multiple Myeloma provides any myeloma patient or caregiver a clear road map they can use to help navigate safely through today’s frustrating health care maze.
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Author: Asad Bashey
Book Description: Whether you’re a newly diagnosed myeloma patient, a survivor, or a friend or relative of either, this book offers help. The only text to provide the doctor’s and patient’s views, 100 Questions & Answers About Myeloma gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment options, post-treatment quality of life, sources of support, and much more. Written by a hematologist-oncologist specializing in myeloma treatment, and featuring “insider” advice from an actual patient, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of this frightening disease.
]]> http://www.myelomabeacon.com/resources/2008/10/15/100-questions-and-answers-about-multiple-myeloma/feed/ 0 Multiple Myeloma: The Plain English Handbook for Patients and Care Givers http://www.myelomabeacon.com/resources/2008/10/15/multiple-myeloma-the-plain-english-handbook-for-patients-and-care-givers/ http://www.myelomabeacon.com/resources/2008/10/15/multiple-myeloma-the-plain-english-handbook-for-patients-and-care-givers/#comments Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:00:00 +0000 Admin http://www.myelomabeacon.com/?p=980
Author: Robert J. Heller
Book Description: A comprehensive handbook and guide in easy to understand terms dealing with Multiple Myeloma; the disease, treatments, medications, lifestyle changes, and resources. Written by a non-medical author and based upon personal experiences.
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Editor: James R. Berenson
Book Description: Expert physicians and clinical researchers summarize and explain all the recent advances in the biology and treatment of bone marrow-based malignancy. On the biological side, the authors show the characteristics of the malignant cell and describe the significant roles played by oncogenic changes, chromosomal anomalies, Kaposi’s sarcoma herpes virus, and cytokines. New epidemiological findings and prognostic factors are also analyzed. On the clinical side, the authors provide a comprehensive review of conventional treatment regimens, as well as a discussion of newer experimental approaches involving immunologic targeting, inhibitors of drug resistance, and antitumor agents.
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Author: Jerome E. Tanner, Ph.D.
Book Description: Myeloma is a form of cancer that rises from white blood cells. The disease usually causes malignant cells to grow within bone marrow. This book draws upon the most current medical research to explain the biology of this form of cancer, how it is diagnosed, and how it is treated.
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Author: Michael Gearin-Tosh
Book Description: I was told I had cancer and that I must expect to die soon. Almost eight years later I still do my job and enjoy life. I have not had conventional treatment. Did my cancer simply disappear? Did I do nothing? Far from it. A number of things happened, some by accident, most by design. Michael Gearin-Tosh is diagnosed with cancer at the age of fifty-four. The doctors urge immediate treatment. He refuses. Intuitively, not on the basis of reason. But as the days pass, Gearin-Tosh falls back on his habits as a scholar of literature. He begins to probe the experts’ words and the meaning behind medical phrases. He tries to relate what each doctor says — and does not say — to the doctor’s own temperament. And the more questions he asks, the more adamant his refusal to be hurried to treatment. The delay is a high-risk gamble. He listens to much advice, especially that of three women friends, each with a different point of view, one a doctor. They challenge him. They challenge medical advice. They challenge one another. On no occasion do they speak with one voice. He also turns to unexpected guides within his own memory and in the authors he loves, from Shakespeare and Chekhov to Jean Renoir, Arthur Miller, and Vaclav Havel. In the end, he chooses not to have chemotherapy but to combat his cancer largely through nutrition, vitamin supplements, an ancient Chinese breathing exercise with imaginative visualizations, and acupuncture. No how-to book or prescriptive health guide, “Living Proof” is a celebration of human existence and friendship, a story of how a man steers through conflicting advice, between depression and seemingly inescapable rationalism, between the medicinehe rejects and the doctors he honors. Clear-eyed and unflinching, Gearin-Tosh even includes his own medical history, “The Case of the .005% Survivor”; explores general questions about cancer; and examines the role of individual temperament on medical attitudes, the choice of treatments, and, of course, survival.
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