Cancer

Summary: "About 12.5 percent of all deaths in the world are caused by cancer, making it deadlier than AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. Readers will discover how this common, yet deadly disease is diagnosed and treated. They will also learn how different kinds of cancer affect the body differently and why some types are deadlier than others." --

Record details

ISBN: 9780531215227
ISBN: 9780531214725
Physical Description: print
48 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Publisher: New York, NY : Children's Press, an Imprint of Scholastic Inc., ©2016.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (page 45) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	What can it be? -- Making a diagnosis -- The big truth, Smoking: it's a killer -- What causes cancer? -- Treating cancer -- Life after cancer.