Introduction : finding my way -- Champagne and hot dogs -- Being old, having cancer -- Paradox : cancer and aging in America -- Scientific import and influence -- Language lessons -- Aesthetics of being and having -- Epilogue : not a denial of the fact of death, a denial of death now
Summary
Little has been written to guide clinicians, social scientists, families, and individuals about cancer among the "oldest old." In Cancer in the Lives of Older Americans, Sarah H. Kagan approaches this problem from the perspective of more than twenty years of practice, inquiry, and education as a nurse
