Cancer in the lives of older Americans
Subtitle: blessings and battles
By: Sarah H. Kagan.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9780812241433
Subjects: Geriatric oncology -- United States; Cancer -- Psychological aspects -- United States; Older people -- Diseases -- United States; Neoplasms -- psychology -- United States; Aged -- United States; Social Isolation -- psychology -- United States
Description: "The book follows the story of Mrs. Eck, a woman in her 80s diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Mrs. Eck's situation sets the stage for a discussion of cancer, which too often focuses on cells and drugs, diagnoses and prognoses without looking more closely at the people who are experiencing the disease. Chapters offer varied assessments ofwhat it means to be old and have cancer in our society, as Kagan explores other real experiences of cancer for older adults alongside information that will prove essential to patients, their families, scholars, and clinicians." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : finding my way; title: Champagne and hot dogs; title: Being old, having cancer; title: Paradox : cancer and aging in America; title: Scientific import and influence; title: Language lessons; title: Aesthetics of being and having; title: Epilogue : not a denial of the fact of death, a denial of death now.