Life after Cancer> <meta name="description" content="Life after Cancer diary blog by cancer survivor Hugh Cook, author of the cancer memoir CANCER PATIENT. The experience of surviving cancer and going forward."> <meta name="keywords" content="life, after, cancer"> </head> <body bgcolor="blue" link="blue" alink="red" vlink="#800080"> <a name="top"></a> <br> <table cellpadding="10" align="center" bgcolor="red" width="60%" border="0"><tr> <td bgcolor="white"><div> <font FACE="Times New Roman, Courier New, Verdana" FONT COLOR="black"><FONT SIZE="7"><center><b> Life After Cancer </b></center> </div></td></tr></table> <br> <table cellpadding="10" align="center" bgcolor="red" width="40%" border="0"><tr> <td bgcolor="white"><div><FONT COLOR="black"><FONT SIZE="4"><center><b>Life After Cancer<br>Cancer Survivor Diary Journal Blog<br><br> Life after Cancer diary entries by Hugh Cook, author of the cancer memoir CANCER PATIENT. <br><br> <a href="../data/mail.html">e-mail</a> </b></center></font></div></td></tr></table> <br> <table cellpadding="10" align="center" bgcolor="red" width="60%" border="0"><tr> <td bgcolor="white"><div> <font FACE="Times New Roman, Courier New, Verdana" FONT COLOR="#cc0000"><FONT SIZE="4"><b> Life after cancer entries are in chronological order. In 2005, Hugh Cook underwent chemotherapy and radiation therapy to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the large B-cell variety, a cancer, in his case, of the central nervous system: the brain and the spinal cord. The first entry in this sequence is dated December 2005, by which time the cancer was in remission. href="http://zenvirus.com/life-after-cancer/life-after-cancer.html" href="http://life-after-cancer.zenvirus.com href="http://life-after-cancer.zenvirus.com/life-after-cancer.html www life after cancer com life after cancer comm lifeaftercancer life aftercancer lifeafter cancer cancer survivor's diary blog journal online LIFE AFTER CANCER life-after-cancer@zenvirus.com </b></FONT></div></td></tr></table> <br> <table cellpadding="10" align="center" bgcolor="red" width="40%" border="0"><tr> <td bgcolor="white"><div> <font FACE="Times New Roman, Courier New, Verdana" FONT COLOR="black"><FONT SIZE="4"><center><b> Entries are in Chronological Order.<br> Most recent is at the bottom. </b></center> </div></td></tr></table> <br> <table cellpadding="10" align="center" bgcolor="red" width="40%" border="0"><tr> <td bgcolor="white"><div> <font FACE="Times New Roman, Courier New, Verdana" FONT COLOR="black"><FONT SIZE="4"><center><b> <a href="survivorhood.html">survivorhood</a><br><br>A meditation on survivorhood<br>December 2005 </b></center> </div></td></tr></table> <br> <table align="center" cellpadding="5" align="center" width="80%" bgcolor="black" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="red" width="80%"> <div><FONT COLOR="white"><font size="4"><font FACE="Courier New, Times New Roman, Verdana"><b> Ask your public library to buy CANCER PATIENT - a medical memoir of potential interest to cancer patients, their friends and family. This book would be a very good addition to your local library or university library. <center> <br> Details:- <br><br> Author: Hugh Cook<br> Title: Cancer Patient<br> ISBN: 1-4116-5387-4 </b></center></font></div></td></tr></table> <br> <table align="center" cellpadding="5" align="center" width="60%" bgcolor="black" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="white" width="60%"> <div><FONT COLOR="black"><font size="5"><font FACE="Courier New, Times New Roman, Verdana"><b> <center> <a href="library-order-details.html">Library Order Details<br><br>Printer-friendly Version<br><br> Click Here</a>. </b></center></font></div></td></tr></table> <br> <table align="center" cellpadding="30" align="center" width="60%" bgcolor="black" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="white" width="60%"> <div><FONT COLOR="black"><font size="4"><font FACE="Courier New, Times New Roman, Verdana"><b> CANCER PATIENT is an autobiographical account of one patient's experience of cancer, dealing with initial problems, the quest for a diagnosis, the diagnosis itself, treatment and the achievement of remission. <br><br> The book concludes with a chapter of advice for patients, focusing on the issue of obtaining and processing all the information the patient needs to get a grip on. <br><br> This book should be of particular interest to cancer patients, their family and friends, and to people working in the oncology field. <br><br> The specific cancer dealt with is non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the large B-cell variety, a cancer, in this patient's case, of the central nervous system, the brain and spinal cord.<br><br> The book deals with, amongst other things, the experience of having chemotherapy with methotrexate, vincristine and Ara-C, the experience of radiation therapy, with the use of the oral steroid dexamethasone (prescribed to reduce swelling of the brain) and with eyesight problems associated with the cancer. <br><br> The book includes an account of having brain surgery under a general anesthetic - the author underwent neurosurgery in the form of a brain biopsy. <br><br> The book also includes a description of having a lumbar puncture (a spinal tap). <br><br> The author, Hugh Cook, is a novelist who has been writing and publishing novels for twenty-five years. <br><br><center> <a href="../cancer-patient/cancer-patient-chapter-1.html#start">CANCER PATIENT<br><br>Read full text<br>free online.</a> </center> </b></center></font></div></td></tr></table> <br> </body> </html>