John Leifer

After You Hear It's Cancer

A Guide to Navigating the Difficult Journey Ahead

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

After You Hear It's Cancer offers a step-by-step guide for recently diagnosed patients and their families as they embark on this arduous journey. The authors integrate cutting-edge research with the perspectives of numerous cancer patients to provide an empathic, but pragmatic handbook that should be required reading for every cancer patient.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9781538109038
• ISBN-10: 1538109034
• Artikelnr.: 48895887

Autorenporträt

By John Leifer - With Lori Lindstrom Leifer

Inhaltsangabe

PART 1: DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT PLANNING Prologue: A Life-Changing
Experience 1: A Definitive Diagnosis: Setting the Stage for Treatment 2:
How Prognosis Influences Your Treatment 3: How to Select your Doctors 4:
Genetic Testing in Diagnosis and Treatment 5: Making Sense of Your
Treatment Options 6: Understanding Clinical Trials 7: The Importance of
Getting a Second Opinion PART 2: DURING ACTIVE TREATMENT 8: The Emotional
Roller-Coaster of Cancer 9: Methods to Minimize Side Effects 10: Make
Nutrition and Exercise Part of Your Treatment Plan 11: What to Expect from
Pain Control 12: How to Manage the Cost of Cancer 13: When Considering
Complementary Therapies 14: The Role of Your Caregivers PART 3: AFTER
INITIAL TREATMENTS ARE OVER 15: When Initial Treatments Prove Insufficient
16: The Challenges of Surviving Cancer 17: Difficult Decisions at the End
of the Journey 18: Choosing to Stop Treatment and the Role of Hospice
Addendum: Essential Resources