Can Survive: Reclaiming Your Life After Cancer
Author: Judith Ellis
Thoroughly updated to incorporate the sweeping changes in medical insurance and employment laws, "Can Survive" focuses squarely on the needs of recovered cancer patients. Written by a cancer survivor, this groundbreaking book is a complete resource guide designed to help with problems commonly encountered after cancer treatment, from fear of remission to job and insurance discrimination to altered relationships and long-term physical effects from chemotherapy and radiation. Interweaving stories and tips from survivors with advice from doctors, oncology nurses, psychologists, and social workers, "Can Survive" is both reassuring and pragmatically useful.
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Autoimmune Diseases and Their Environmental Triggers
Author: Elaine A Moor
Autoimmune Disease (AD) refers to any of a number of disorders caused by an immune system defect that allows the body to attack its own tissues. Some say 20 percent of the population is susceptible to Autoimmune Disease. According to current theory, individuals who develop AD do so because they are exposed to certain environmental triggers.
This work is a comprehensive resource for patients with autoimmune disease. The primary focus is on the specific environmental factors, including heavy metals, hormones, organic solvents, medications, and infectious agents, that lead to autoimmune disease and that make the symptoms worse in genetically susceptible individuals.
Sections of this work describe the immune system, the natural courses of disease for the various system-wide and organ-specific autoimmune disorders, and genetic factors and lifestyle influences associated with AD. Diagnostic concerns, conventional and alternative treatment options for AD, current research paths, and laboratory tests are also covered.
Table of Contents:
| Acknowledgments | ||
| List of Illustrations | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Health vs. Environment | 5 |
| 2 | What Are Autoimmune Diseases? | 17 |
| 3 | What Went Wrong? The Players in Autoimmune Disease | 32 |
| 4 | Why Me? Genetic Factors | 62 |
| 5 | Environmental Triggers of Autoimmune Disease | 72 |
| 6 | Tricky Business, Diagnosing Autoimmune Disease | 98 |
| 7 | The Autoimmune Disease Spectrum | 121 |
| 8 | Conventional Treatment Options | 155 |
| 9 | Alternative Medical Treatment Options | 168 |
| 10 | Current Research Trends | 179 |
| 11 | Resources | 189 |
| Glossary | 203 | |
| Notes | 215 | |
| Index | 223 |
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