Carcinoid-Tumors Books

The Carcinoid Syndrome by Dr. Basil Rudusky--Bookman Publishing-- is compulsively readable. Once begun, there is no turning back. Be prepared to lose a night's sleep. It reads like the best of today's medical suspense fiction-- except that this story is true. It is terrific.


Santo C. La Foca

A book so interesting you can't put it down.
A pleasure to read.
Informative and Educational.
Anexperience which could be enjoyed by everyone.
Would definately make a good movie.

Dan Jescavage Wilkes Barre Pa.

This is one of the weakest books I have ever read on ANY subject. It reads like an unfocused case study with less than half of the book dealing with a patient with the syndrome, the rest a bunch of irrelevant information about the husband's stuggle with a school district [100 pages were written about this with little mention of the patient's illness]. It seems an ego boost for the physician and patient with very little information about the devastating disease. The patient clearly wasn't sick enough to stop her regular daily life.

As someone with metastatic carcinoid, I would never refuse physicians' attempts at problem solving by refering to specialists. I have been legally disabled since 2001 due to this disease which took many years to firmly diagnose. This past December I had metastatic disease in 5.5 feet of my intestines, in both ovaries, the appendix, and the gall bladder. My life changed dramatically with an emergency hospitalization in 2001.

As an aside, the teacher and her teacher husband must not be well-informed since Due Process is so generally understood. And finally, please have the book edited prior to printing. There were many grammatical errors!

As a Carcinoid Cancer Survivor, this is one of the worst books I've seen on the subject. Halfway though this book the story becomes not Carcinoid Cancer, but the patient's husbands employment problems because he takes schoolkids on ski trips. Talk about losing control of the subject matter! If you want to learn about this cancer, go to www.carcinoid.org and skip this poorly written book.

As a sufferer of this dreadful disease myself, I was eager to read a book about Carcinoid Syndrome. And I guess that's the problem. The beginning chapters-maybe four or five- are about the illness, then this book disintegrates into a story that has nothing to do with an illness of any kind. It's about a bloody ski trip money fiasco! Christ! Who cares? I'm sorry. Write another book called " Who took the Ski Money" or something. Where were the editors?! Don't sell a book to people dying to find out more about a miserable debilitating cancer and then switch to a personal legal battle that has nothing to do with it what so ever. I just don't get it. And wish I hadn't gotten it-this book, that is. Don't waste your money.

Buyer Beware - Misleading Title


Only 10 pages of this 240-page book are devoted to a description of gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors and are quoted verbatim from the National Cancer Institute's Web site, CANCERNET/PDQ for patients! Patients who live with a very rare cancer, carcinoid/neuroendocrine tumors, are deceived when they see the title of this book and think they may find answers to the many questions they have regarding the management of their disease. Additionally, nearly 90% of the references in the abstracts that are quoted refer to colorectal cancers, which are totally different from GI carcinoid cancer.
In no way does this book focus on carcinoid and neuroendocrine tumors nor does it present information that cannot be found elsewhere at no charge. The title does not match the content!



The Official Patient's Sourcebook On Gastrointestinal Carcinoid Tumors (2004)


$41.25
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Paperback - ISBN: 0597841918 | Lightning Source Inc | 2004-03-31 | Revised Edition