Cancer Chemotherapy (International Congress S., v. 776)
by Kiyoji Kimura, Kazuo Ota, Ronald B Herberman, and Hiroshi Takita (Eds)
“Dear Millie, I am writing you this letter in the hope that life has afforded you the opportunity to grow old enough to read it…” So starts the most extraordinary diary about a seven-year-old girl and her family, violently thrown into the most dreaded abyss when they discover she has cancer in the form of a malignant brain tumour. On the morning of 5th April 2013, Millie wakes up complaining of ‘fuzziness’ in her eyes. This very quickly turns to loss of vision. Within the next two days Millie wi...
The Chemotherapy Survival Guide
by Judith McKay, Tammy Schacher, and Tamara Schacher
Chemotherapy is often the first treatment given to the thousands of people who face cancer, and this helpful and much-needed guide provides the information that chemotherapy patients desperately need to help them understand, adjust and feel better about the treatments they are having. The authors are both experienced chemotherapy nurses, and they explain how it works, how it is administered, how it feels, and how to prevent, reduce or manage the side effects of chemotherapy - nausea, hair loss,...
Early Drug Development, 2 Volume Set (Methods and Principles in Medicinal Chemistry)
This one-stop reference systematically covers key aspects in early drug development that are directly relevant to the discovery phase and are required for first-in-human studies. Its broad scope brings together critical knowledge from many disciplines, ranging from process technology to pharmacology to intellectual property issues. After introducing the overall early development workflow, the critical steps of early drug development are described in a sequential and enabling order: the availa...
Cancer Slayer
by Cancer Legends, Breast Cancer Awareness, and Legends Ltd
Advances in Pharmacology and Chemotherapy
The Parent's Guide to Pediatric Drugs
by Ruth McGillis Bindler, Yvonne Tso, and Linda Berner Howry
Written by a well-known lecturer and consultant to the pharmaceutical industry, this book focuses on the pharmaceutical non-statistician working within a very strict regulatory environment. Statistical Thinking for Clinical Trials in Drug Regulation presents the concepts and statistical thinking behind medical studies with a direct connection to the regulatory environment so that readers can be clear where the statistical methodology fits in with industry requirements. Pharmaceutical-related ex...
This book provides non-technical information on the safe effective use of medication. The author presents basic information on medications and how they work so as to help consumers understand why it is so important for them to comply with prescription instructions. Medication management is covered beginning with a list of questions for the primary physician to ensure that there is complete understanding regarding purpose of the medication, how and when it is to be taken, what side effects to be...
Trace Elements Medicine and Chelation Therapy (RSC Paperbacks)
by David R Williams and David M Taylor
This book discusses, in relatively simple language, the importance of even minute amounts of certain trace elements for the protection of human health and how insufficiency or excess may produce serious diseases. It also examines the use of metal chelators in the treatment of such diseases.