The Johns Hopkins Patients' Guide to Pancreatic Cancer is a concise, easy-to-follow, how-to guide that puts you on the path to wellness by explaining pancreatic cancer symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments from start to finish. It guides you through the overwhelming maze of treatment decisions, simplifies the complicated schedule that lies ahead, and provides valuable tools to help you put together your plan of care Empower yourself with accurate, understadable information that will give you the ability to participate confidently in the decision making about your care and treatment.<BR><BR>Learning that you or someone you love has cancer is devastating, and feeling lost and powerless is a common immediate response. The Johns Hopkins Patients' Guides are designed to alleviate your anxiety, empower you with information, and enable you to fully understand your treatment options. Each book in this series is dedicated to a specific type of cancer. The information is there to help lighten your burden and to assist you in becoming an active participant in your care, Cancer rarely allows us to take a diversion from life, and offering guidance on how to continue to live life while working hard on getting well is part of the outcome we hope to help you achieve.<BR><BR>"We were so overwhelmed when my husband was first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer that it was hard to ask the right questions. It's even harder to anticipate the future when the present is so demanding. This book helps you to see the long-view of treatment and read about it when you are ready to understand the next step. We could find bits and pieces of information on the Web that were either overly technical or lacked enough depth to be helpful. The information found here is thorough and all in one place."---Pat Harder, Wife of Pancreatic Cancer Patient