A supportive, self-help manual on breast cancer. This book provides important information on detecting breast cancer, dealing with it physically and emotionally, and surviving it. Fears, truths, remedies, and alternatives are presented, weighed, and evaluated from perspectives of doctors, nurses, patients, families, and experts. Issues such as insurance, physical changes, family stress, recovery, and death are discussed frankly and openly. The work includes valuable appendices including a glossary of terms, suggestions for further reading, questions to ask doctors, tips on assisting those...

A supportive, self-help manual on breast cancer. This book provides important information on detecting breast cancer, dealing with it physically and emotionally, and surviving it. Fears, truths, remedies, and alternatives are presented, weighed, and evaluated from perspectives of doctors, nurses, patients, families, and experts. Issues such as insurance, physical changes, family stress, recovery, and death are discussed frankly and openly. The work includes valuable appendices including a glossary of terms, suggestions for further reading, questions to ask doctors, tips on assisting those...

This reference summarizes and overviews the life and career of Katharine Cornell, one of the foremost actresses of the American stage from 1920 to 1960. The book begins with a biography that briefly discusses Cornell's life and achievements. A chronology then outlines the most significant events in her career. The chapters that follow provide detailed information on her stage appearances and radio, film, and television work. The credits, casts, synopses, brief histories, commentaries, and selected critical reviews are included for each of the plays in which she appeared. An extensive...