Abstract
Book Review.
Even with the anti-smoking campaigns that constantly bombard out daily lives, lung cancer features less in the media than other cancers such as breast cancer. Lung cancer is not a newsworthy or a glamorous disease. People who are diagnosed with small cell lung cancer, a subgroup within the types of lung cancer, have a particularly poor prognosis. A person who has only limited disease at diagnosis might hope to survive for approximately 18 months, while for those who present with extensive disease, th efigure is barely a year (Harnett et al. 1999). Due to the incurable and aggressive nature of small cell lung cancer, palliative care is often involved as the disease progresses.
Even with the anti-smoking campaigns that constantly bombard out daily lives, lung cancer features less in the media than other cancers such as breast cancer. Lung cancer is not a newsworthy or a glamorous disease. People who are diagnosed with small cell lung cancer, a subgroup within the types of lung cancer, have a particularly poor prognosis. A person who has only limited disease at diagnosis might hope to survive for approximately 18 months, while for those who present with extensive disease, th efigure is barely a year (Harnett et al. 1999). Due to the incurable and aggressive nature of small cell lung cancer, palliative care is often involved as the disease progresses.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 178-179 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Health Sociology Review |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2003 |
Keywords
- palliative care
- lung cancer
- book review