Cancer in the Lives of Older Americans : : Blessings and Battles / / Sarah H. Kagan.
The "oldest old," individuals aged 85 and above, are the most rapidly growing segment of American society. And although more than a third of cancer occurs in people over 75 years of age, their tumors are less fully diagnosed and often less fully treated than those in younger patients. Agei...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (120 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. Finding My Way
- Chapter 1. Champagne and Hot Dogs
- Chapter 2. Being Old, Having Cancer
- Chapter 3. Paradox
- Chapter 4. Scientific Import and Influence
- Chapter 5. Language Lessons
- Chapter 6. Aesthetics of Being and Having
- Epilogue. Not a Denial of the Fact of Death, a Denial of Death Now
- Postscript. Completed
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Acknowledgments