Nancy Sokolowski, Valerie Rossi

The Breast Cancer Companion (eBook, ePUB)

A Guide For The Newly Diagnosed

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Guidance, organization, and timely ìinsiderî tips to help your breast cancer treatment and recovery go as smoothly and successfully as possible.

Filled with the best-of-the-best advice from the available research, leading doctors, breast cancer survivors, and Nancy Sokolowskiís 30 years as one of the countryís most respected and sought after breast health specialists, The Breast Cancer Companion is a step-by-step guide to assist you in mounting a smart, organized, and ultimately successful battle with breast cancer.

Helping you stay well-organized and well-informed, this essential companion includes health information, tips, and resources, plus provides ample space and encouragement to record questions, thoughts and feelings, doctor's appointments, medications, and contact information for the oncology team and others.

Youíll find:

• A calendar to plan and manage your schedule
• A directory to organize important contacts
• Questions to ask your medical team
• Tips and advice from breast cancer survivors
• Ample space to reflect on your experience
• A list of resources and breast cancer-related organizations

With The Breast Cancer Companion at your side, youíll have the peace of mind, time, and energy to focus on what matters most: staying well and achieving a healthy outcome.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781935281566
• Artikelnr.: 37983444

Autorenporträt

Nancy Sokolowski, RN, OCN is a nationally recognized breast health specialist, with a 30-year career at Norwalk Hospital (a teaching affiliate of Yale University School of Medicine.)

Inhaltsangabe

A Few Words from the Authors-The Meaningfulness of This Project
How to Make This Book Work for You
1. First Steps
2. Recovery
3. My Team and My Plans
5. Record-Keeping
6. Resources

Rezensionen

"This book will help patients newly diagnosed and struggling with the confusing array of terms, technologies, and choices before them. Organization is the first step to control and this book provides the means to get started." - Clifford A. Hudis, MD, Chief, Breast Cancer Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center "This book is a wonderful and helpful resource for the woman with breast cancer. It is calming, positive and reassuring. I will recommend it to my patients." -John Link, M.D., Breast oncologist and author of "The Breast Cancer Survival Manual" "I wish "The Breast Cancer Companion" was available when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Having this in hand would have simplified matters and made managing treatment far easier. I cannot recommend this enough to any woman diagnosed with breast cancer." - Maria T. Vargas, Pre-K Teacher, Rockefeller University Child and Family Center and breast cancer survivor ""This workbook for patients offers a wealth of tools for keeping track of doctor visits, medications, treatments, and expenses while surviving breast cancer, combined with advice on preparing for different types of treatment and suggestions for regaining health after treatment. There is also an overview of reconstruction and prosthesis and related intimacy issues. The bulk of the book contains forms for organizing the medical team's contacts, space for making notes on medical appointments, a calendar, and logs for keeping track of treatment history, medications, and lab tests. There are also forms for organizing insurance information and itemizing medical expenses. Peppered with boxed quotes from real survivors, the book includes a glossary and lists of books, magazines, organizations, and vendors. Sokolowski is co-founder of Norwalk Hospital's Smilow Family Breast Health Center. Rossi is co-author of a diabetes patient workbook.""-- Book News, Inc.""--Clifford A. Hudis, MD, Chief, Breast Cancer Medicine Service (06/15/2010)