Böcker av David Drum

Hundreds of thousands of people are cured of cancer every year, due in large part to chemotherapy treatment. Making the Chemotherapy Decision is a comprehensive sourcebook for people looking at chemotherapy treatment and their families.In this recently-expanded fifth edition, updated in 2014, medical journalist David Drum demystifies chemotherapy treatment in a practical and supportive way. The book includes information on the 122 most commonly-used chemotherapy drugs, their side effects, and suggests ways to cope with the entire cancer treatment process..Stressing the connection between body and mind in the healing process, Drum dispels many common myths about chemotherapy and presents clear, concise information on pain control, nutrition, lifestyle changes, patients' rights, alternative treatments, social and financial issues, the management of side effects and more. Case histories of people who have experienced chemotherapy are included. Patients who actively participate in their treatment greatly improve their chances of survival and enhance their quality of life. Making the Chemotherapy Decision provides information and support to help people with cancer and their caregivers along the way to recovery from cancer.

A ZANY, EPIC, HIGH STAKES ADVENTURE An incredibly powerful new cell phone signal promises to make a giant corporation fabulously wealthy, but the signal has the potential to kill millions of people. A corporate scientist, Dr. Patricia Maypole, realizes the danger but is fired. She wages a lonely, uphill battle to expose the truth until a strange, down-on-his-luck Afro-American man appears to help her. As a flying saucer from the planet Excellon approaches Earth, strange things begin to occur. A grad student's secret experiment goes terribly awry. Insect life changes. The corporate president is abducted. A Victoria's Secret model pulls out all the stops to save herself. Neanderthals, a wiccan love triangle, and a ditzy New York Times reporter add to to a wild mix of characters as the flying saucer lands and this zany, fast-moving novel speeds to its surprising climax. Final Warning is a funny, thought-provoking fable for our times, highlighting the dangers inherit in a powerful new technology gone hog wild.

Originally published in hardcover in 1999 by Lowell House.

After the daughter of medical journalist David Drum was diagnosed with polycystic liver disease, he found precious little basic information available to the general public. Drum completed extensive research to help his daughter understand and manage her disease, then condensed the information into a short, useful, patient-centered book, the first of its type on this rare disease."Polycystic Liver Disease: Information for Patients" contains useful information for people with this rare disease involving multiple cysts on the liver. Less than 200,000 people in the United States have been diagnosed with the disease, but its symptoms are treatable."Polycystic Liver Disease: Information for Patients" contains useful information on diet, herbs, and lifestyle. It explains how liver cysts form, the risk factors for the disease, the important role of the liver in the body, and available treatments for the most common symptoms including the symptom of pain. There are five major invasive treatments used to treat symptomatic polycystic liver disease and Drum examines the benefits, drawbacks, and possible complications for each."Polycystic Liver Disease: Information for Patients" includes information on new drugs of potential benefit, new treatments on the horizon such as hepatic artery embolization, an explanation of liver tests which may be employed by your doctor, links to useful web sites, a glossary, and a comprehensive bibliography of sources.