Saving Your Skin: Prevention, Early Detection and Treatment of Melanoma and Other Skin Cancers
Author: Barney J Kenet
An all-around guide, "Saving Your Skin" includes information on how to detect melanoma in its early stages--with descriptions of what it is and what causes it--how to fight sun, the skin's worst enemy; how to perform a skin self-exam at home; how to pick a dermatologist; patient support networks; and more. Color photos. Illustrations.
Library Journal
Despite continued warnings about sun exposure, melanoma ``is increasing at a faster rate than any other cancer in the U.S.'' By the year 2000, one percent of all Americans will be affected; approximately 32,000 citizens were diagnosed with this cancer in 1993. Kenet, a dermatologist at Cornell Medical Center, and Lawler, a former consumer reporter and cofounder of the American Melanoma Foundation, provide statistics, history, a list of risk factors, and sobering vignettes in this comprehensive guide. Especially helpful is their information on identification, screening, treatment, and prevention of the disease. Experimental therapies and techniques such as vaccine therapy and biopsies through computer imaging are clearly explained. The authors' practical and thorough advice on such topics as choosing a physician and the stages of melanoma will answer worrisome questions faced by cancer patients and their families. Most books available on melanoma are expensive clinical texts; this is an excellent medium-priced selection. Recommended for popular health collections.-Catherine Greene, Bethesda Memorial Hosp. Lib., Boynton Beach, Fla.
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Tamilee Webb's Defy Gravity Workout: The Revolutionary Workout Program that Lifts and Tones Your Entire Body
Author: Tamilee Webb
What do you do when you're renowned for being the "Buns of Steel woman" and you turn 40?
Gravity works against all of us as we age, even the fittest among us. Tamilee Webb knows firsthand how to use exercise to combat the drooping, sagging effects of gravity, and in this book she presents a comprehensive plan for lifting and toning your entire body.
This is the first book to address this need head-on, and who better to do it than Tamilee Webb, famous worldwide for her buns, thighs, and abs "of steel," now in her forties and looking more sensational than ever! Tamilee Webb's Defy Gravity Workout combines walking with resistance exercise to create a "miracle workout" for women over 40 who, despite doing aerobics and yoga, still face a droopy figure when they catch a glimpse in the mirror. This program does what other fitness programs can't because it works the muscles in the right order at the right time, helping women of all shapes and sizes truly defy gravity!
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