Informed Decisions, Second Edition | 
| Authors: Harmon Eyre, Dianne Lange, Lois B. Morris
Publisher: American Cancer Society
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 400426
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 784
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.3
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8.1 x 1.5
ISBN: 0944235271
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.994
EAN: 9780944235270
Publication Date: October 1, 2001
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Product Description
Your essential reference to confronting cancer "A Best Consumer Health title"
--Library Journal, March 2002 Informed Decisions is a comprehensive and reliable source for the latest information on every aspect of cancer, from detection to recovery--and practically everything in between. Presented in an easy-to-use format, Informed Decisions is designed to help you and your loved ones.
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 Informed Decisions - 2nd edition February 4, 2008
As an owner of the original "Informed Decisions" I was thrilled to see that there was an updated edition. I purchased the 1st edition when a
family member was diagnosed with cancer and it was a wonderful help -not
to try to make decisions, but to know what to ask the doctors.
I purchased the new edition in order to try to do the same for a family
member with oral cancer. What a disappointment!!! I expected to find
updated info about staging and survival rates, Not there!! Just a general
discussion that is not any more helpful than the information in a
general use medical text, such as Merck's, Johns Hopkins, etc. If a
good text is needed, find a used copy of the original "Informed Decisions" and check the data with your doctors.
 INCOMPLETE, Biased book December 2, 2004
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
I would never trust anything the American Cancer Society says. They are very biased in favor of expensive pharmaceuticals with cancer-causing side-effects. They are the wealthiest "charity" in America, with cash reserves of $1 Billion.
The Role of the ACS in the War Against Cancer
The verdict is unassailable. The American Cancer Society bears a major responsibility for losing the winnable war against cancer.
The launching of the 1971 War Against Cancer provided the ACS with a well-exploited opportunity to pursue it own myopic and self-interested agenda. Its strategies remain based on two lies -- that there has been dramatic progress in the treatment and cure of cancer, and that any increase in the incidence and mortality of cancer is due to aging of the population and smoking while denying any significant role for involuntary exposures to industrial carcinogens in air, water, consumer products and the workplace.
Most of the funds raised by ACS go to pay overhead, salaries, fringe benefits, and travel expenses of its national executives in Atlanta. They also go to pay Chief Executive Officers, who earn six-figure salaries in several states, and the hundreds of other employees who work out of some 3,000 regional offices nationwide. The typical ACS affiliate, which helps raise the money for the national office, spends more than 52 percent of its budget on salaries, pensions, fringe benefits, and overhead for its own employees.
Salaries and overhead for most ACS affiliates also exceeded 50 percent, although most direct community services are handled by unpaid volunteers. DiLorenzo summed up his findings by emphasizing the hoarding of funds by the ACS.
"Most contributors believe their donations are being used to fight cancer, not to accumulate financial reserves. More progress in the war against cancer would be made if they would divest some of their real estate holdings and use the proceeds -- as well as a portion of their cash reserves -- to provide more cancer services."
Aside from high salaries and overhead, most of what is left of the ACS budget goes to basic research and research into profitable, patented cancer drugs.
The current budget of the ACS is $380 million and its cash reserves approach one billion dollars. Yet its aggressive fund-raising campaign continues to plead poverty, and lament the lack of available money for cancer research, while ignoring efforts to prevent cancer by phasing out avoidable exposures to environmental and occupational carcinogens.
Meanwhile, the ACS is silent about its intricate relationships with the wealthy cancer drug industry and chemical industries.
Read more....... http://www.corporations.org/cancer/boycottacs.html
 The Best for Layman Readers on Cancer May 2, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
On the symptom of obstructive jaundice and despite a lack of firm clinical/lab finding of malignant cells from blood tests, ultrasound, ERCP (and cytology) as well as CT Scan, surgeons are of the view that my mother is being attacked by cancer at her bile-duct/head of pancreas. Laparotomy surgery, frozen section, Whipple Procedure and By-pass surgery are suggested for the cure. I knew nothing about cancer and its associated terminologies 6 weeks ago, but thanks to reading this book I begin to have a basic understanding on which I can ask useful questions of doctors/nurses for family decisions.
Best book for understanding cancer and its treatment June 10, 1997
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
My son was recently diagnosed with desmoplastic small round-cell tumors and I wanted to learn everything I could about cancer. I looked at many of the hundreds of books available. Informed Decisions was far and away the best book. It provided complete information from diagnosis, to understanding what cancer is, to the various treatment options and their risks versus benefits, to building a support network. This book gave me everything I needed in one place to answer my many questions. Half the battle with cancer is understanding what is going on and what is going to happen. Being educated about cancer makes it easier to deal with the many health professionals involved in the treatment process. If you're going to buy one book about cancer, Informed Decisions is the one! I give it a 10
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