The Indispensable Guide to Pancreatic Cancer

This book is designed to the cancer patient and his or her loved ones with the knowledge needed to navigate pancreatic cancer. Your doctors will not have the time to sit down and share all of this information that is in the book. This book will enable you to have a deeper understanding of pancreatic cancer, more control over your treatment and a better dialogue with your treating team of doctors. The chapters include the author and her father's personal journey with pancreatic cancer, what pancreatic cancer actually is, symptoms, diagnostics, staging, pancreatic cancer statistics, treatment game plan, questions for your doctors, types of treatments, experimental treatments, clinical trials, side effects of the cancer and treatment, preparing to die (hospice and legal matters) and what to expect when death comes. This book will help ease anxiety and help cancer patients and loved ones feel more in control of the cancer process.