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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798480303321

Autore

Cornwall Claudia Maria

Titolo

Battling melanoma : one couple's struggle from diagnosis to cure / / Claudia Cornwall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4422-4516-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Disciplina

362.196994770092

Soggetti

Melanoma - Treatment

Husband and wife

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 A Pimple-like Thing; 2 What's Real and What Isn't?; 3 I Will Always Love You; 4 The Mad Rush; 5 Don't Worry About It; 6 We Have No Way of Monitoring Success; 7 The Iconoclast: A Visit with James Allison; 8 A Cloud of Uncertainty; 9 A Hairy Week So Far; 10 It's Not Brain Surgery; 11 The First Hill; 12 Because I Am an Optimist; 13 We Have Two Slots Left; 14 An Unexpected Molecule; 15 You've Got to Be Kidding!; 16 Now, There Are All of You; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Melanoma is a deadly disease, and rates of diagnosis have been rising for the last 30 years. Here Claudia Cornwall details the quest to find a cure for her husband, and the information about melanoma treatment they discover along the way.