'Palliative Care and Communication: Experiences in the Clinic', Anne-Mei The, (translated from the Dutch by Robert Pool), Buckingham, UK: Open University Press, 2002, pp.254

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.