Dr. Victor Vogel is an oncologist who has been caring for women with breast cancer and doing clinical research in breast oncology for thirty years. He has sustained life-threatening and disabling illnesses. He has endured the death of his mother when he was a young oncologist and wrestled with the limits of medical care. A lifelong Christian, he has struggled with the challenges of answering questions about suffering and death for his patients, his family, and his friends. He is an ordained Presbyterian elder and a member of the board of directors of the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He has edited two medical textbooks, is the author of hundreds of professional articles and editorials, was a medical school professor for twenty-two years, and has traveled and lectured on four continents. He has appeared on national news broadcasts and has been quoted in the New York Times. He has been married for thirty-six years to a pediatrician, is the father of two children, and has two grandchildren.
This Essential Book Provides On-The-Spot Clinical Guidelines For Assessing And Advising Patients On Their Risk Of Breast Cancer, Therapeutic Options, And Other Issues Of Critical Importance To Women Concerned About Their Breast Health. In Highly-Condensed, Outline Format, The Handbook Provides Extensive, Authoritative, And Current Recommendations On Such Critical Issues As Hormone Replacement Therapy, Chemoprevention, Lifestyle Factors, Genetic Counseling, Imaging Of High-Risk Patients, Economic Factors, And Much More.
Mendelian Inheritance in Man: Catalogs of Autosomal Dominant, Autosomal Recessives, and X-Linked Phenotypes presents catalogs in connection with the genetics of the X chromosome. This book provides a catalog of dominant phenotypes and covers other entries, including anomalous hemoglobin, red cell antigenic types, leukocyte types, and serum protein types. This book begins with an overview of how to use the catalogs wherein two classes of entries have been made in each of the catalogs. This text then explains that each entry consists of three parts, namely, the preferred designation, a brief description of the phenotype with genetic information, and key references. This book discusses as well that in the case of recessives, manifestations in heterozygotes are usually listed. The reader is also introduced to the definition of dominant and recessive used in the preparation of the catalogs. This book is a valuable resource for experimental geneticists, physicians, and research workers.
In medieval Paris, Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral, struggles to save the gypsy dancer Esmeralda from being unjustly executed.
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