Bronchopulmonary cancers: future truths polemical and innovations

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Pages: 170
ISBN : 2-7420-0225-1
Printed in: French

The completely original approach and unusual tone of this work take it resolutely off the beaten track. While basing his book on remarkable epidemiologic, biological, clinical and therapeutic data, Professor Lebeau has sought to present its subject in a different light.
His use of a direct, incisive style and deliberately provocative expressions such as “lung cancer does not exist! ”allows him to convey to the reader the essence of what should be remembered: that there is not one bronchopulmonary cancer but several, whose origins and multiple forms must be very clearly identified.
Defending the fundamental principle that there can be no good treatment without good diagnosis, all the stages of diagnostic practice are clearly detailed. The author then lists all the therapeutic techniques - from surgery to the first promising steps in genetic therapy - whose usefulness must be considered with regard to the type of cancer and the general state of health of the patient.
The psychological care of patients is the subject of a long discussion ranging over how to handle pain, whether to tell them the truth, and the prospect of death.
A clearly expressed work, accessible to the whole medical profession - or how to read modern medicine as a real novel.