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- A Cancer Survivor's Almanac: Charting the Journey
"I’m thrilled that this book is available to cancer survivors. I only wish I’d had a copy 10 years ago when I was diagnosed with breast cancer."
—Jill Eikenberry, actor and breast cancer advocate
- Beyond Miracles: Living with Cancer
- Cancer Clinical Trials: Experimental Treatments and How They Can Help You
In this book, medical journalist Finn does an outstanding job of detailing and demystifying the structure, administration, and history of various experimental cancer studies as well as the laws affecting them. In addition to providing a wealth of understandable background information, he gives the consumer step-by-step guidance for locating and appraising a clinical trial, intelligently and compassionately explores the pros and cons of whether to enter a research study, and writes superbly about what an informed consent document is and how to read one.
- Cancer Combat: Cancer Survivors Share Their Guerilla Tactics to Help You Win the Fight of Your Life
A diagnosis of cancer is a call to arms, rallying the patient, family, friends, and medical team. In this important book, cancer survivors from around the country bring you into their lives, sharing their secret tactics for day-to-day survival to help you fight the battle of your life--and win.
- Cancer Cure: The Complete Guide to Finding and Getting the Best Care There Is
- Cancer S. O. S.: Strategies of Survival
As a RN, I highly recommend this book., October 12, 1998 Reviewer: jjacob@worldramp.net (Orlando, Florida) I have read this book and have heard Rose Welsh speak. She has written a book that helps people diagnosed with cancer, and their families - find a direction when their lives have been placed in turmoil.
- Cancer Talk: Voices of Hope and Endurance from 'the Group Room,' the World's Largest Cancer Support Group
Schimmel, a 16-year cancer survivor and host of "The Group Room," an ongoing cancer support group on National Public Radio, addresses the concerns of cancer survivors, their family members, friends, physicians, nurses and other health-care professionals about a variety of cancer-related topics.
- Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Practical Guide to Your Future
More than 250,000 children, teens, and adults are survivors of childhood cancer. The present high rate of cure for childhood cancer is a cause for celebration--children and their families faced adversity and triumphed...
- Diagnosis: Cancer - Your Guide through the First Few Months
With a no-nonsense, let's-get-down-to-basics approach, the book's author, a physician and cancer survivor, answers the questions that any newly diagnosed cancer patient is likely to have.
- Everyone's Guide to Cancer Therapy: How Cancer is Diagnosed, Treated and Managed Day to Day
Written by two oncologists for the layperson, this authoritative but readable reference book stands out in the literature as a uniquely comprehensive, thorough source of up-to-date information about cancer generally and individual common cancers.
- Group Therapy for Cancer Patients
Irvin D. Yalom, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry Stanford University School of Medicine "A superb clinical text! Every page displays wisdom, scholarship, humanity, and enabling instruction. I believe that, for many years to come, this book will represent the gold standard for the group treatment of cancer patients."
- Managing The Side Effects Of Chemotherapy And Radiation Therapy
If you experience nausea, fatigue, mouth ulcers--or any other unwelcome side effect of chemotherapy or radiation therapy--this book can help you cope more effectively with your treatment.
- Sexuality and Fertility After Cancer
This valuable book provides accurate information on the causes of these important problems, and offers some reassuring and workable solutions. Many of the suggestions are helpful not only for cancer patients but for people with other illnesses, the elderly and those who believe that sex must involve penetration to provide erotic pleasure.
- Supportive Cancer Care: A Comprehensive Guide for Patients and Their Families
This book is an essential resource for all those whose lives have been touched by a diagnosis of cancer. Ernest H. Rosenbaum, M.D., and Isadora Rosenbaum, M.A., draw on their extensive knowledge and years of medical care to provide the most up-to-date information about the diagnosis and treatment of cancer but also the emotional and psychological needs of those coping with a cancer diagnosis.
- Surgery: A Patient's Guide From Diagnosis To Recovery
The words "you need surgery" can provoke anxiety in anyone. This book, written by experienced surgical services nurses and educators, is designed to give prospective patients a guide to what to expect and what questions to ask when facing an operation.
- The Activist Cancer Patient: How to Take Charge of Your Treatment
Book by Zakarian, a cancer survivor and executive director of Cancer Patients Action Alliance (CAN-ACT), a nonprofit advocacy group, writes movingly about her own experience with cancer and her difficulties in receiving appropriate therapy.
- The Cancer Chemotherapy Handbook
- The Cancer Dictionary
This revision of the dictionary contains more than 2,500 alphabetical entries. The entries cover all aspects of cancer diagnosis and treatment
- The Cancer Patient’s Workbook: Everything You Need to Stay Organized and Informed
Balancing the serious work of survival with an upbeat tone, The Cancer Patient's Workbook maintains a positive outlook while avoiding pointless platitudes. As a survivor of Stage 4 lung cancer, author Joanie Willis is all too familiar with both the spiritual trials and the daily frustrations that cancer can bring.
- The Complete Cancer Survival Guide: Everything You Must Know and Where to Go for State-of-the-Art Treatment of the 25 Most Common Forms of Cancer
At age 51, Peter Teeley, former press secretary to George Bush, was given a 50-50 chance of surviving his stage III colon cancer. Like most newly diagnosed cancer patients, he knew little about the disease and less about possible treatments. He tenaciously sought out information and saved his own life.
- The Human Side of Cancer: Living with Hope, Coping with Uncertainty
"There are two aspects to the human side of cancer: what cancer does psychologically to people and their families, and how emotions and behaviors may influence the risk of getting cancer and its outcome," writes Jimmie C. Holland, M.D., founder of the field of psycho-oncology.
- The Wellness Community Guide to Fighting for Recovery from Cancer
Benjamin, founder of the Wellness Community, a psychosocial support program for cancer patients, expands upon his earlier book, From Victim to Victor (1988), with this empowering, empathetic guide.
- To Be Alive: A Woman's Guide to a Full Life after Cancer
- Understanding Cancer: A Patient's Guide to Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment
As professor of radiation oncology and chair of the Joint Center for Radiation Therapy at Harvard Medical School, Coleman realizes how important it is for cancer patients to understand the terms and concepts used by healthcare professionals. Here he explains such concepts as cancer etiology, diagnostic tests, treatment options, and clinical trials?concepts that are impossible for health professionals to explain fully during hospital visits and difficult for patients to grasp in times of crisis.
- What You Really Need to Know About Cancer-A Comprehensive Guide For Patients and Families
Cancer experts from the renowned M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston have compiled this excellent, comprehensive book that intelligently explains why we fear cancer and what it is... Cancer screening, early diagnosis, prevention, terminology and research breakthroughs are also presented in a remarkably clear manner in this authoritative cancer reference resource.
- When a Parent Has Cancer: A Guide to Caring For Your Children
Harpham (After Cancer, LJ 8/94) deals here with "the difficulties of raising children when a parent has cancer and proposes approaches for preventing and responding to common problems in a healthy way." Harpham, a parent with cancer, is also a physician
- Women and Cancer: A Thorough and Compassionate Resource for Patients and their Families
Concise, thorough and up-to-date, this American Cancer Society guide book offers concrete help to women who have been diagnosed with cancer of the reproductive system.
- Dr Folkman's War
"Judah Folkman's answer-stop cancers by cutting off their blood supplies-has much too long been thought of as too simple to ever work. Now, however, a broad set of antiangiogenic agents based on Judah's ideas are coming on line. The verdict 'cancer' need no longer be synonymous with fear and despair. Our country's 'war against cancer' at last has found its general."
?JAMES D. WATSON, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of The Double Helix
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