Download or read book Helping Your Mate Face Breast Cancer written by Judy C. Kneece and published by Educare Publishing (SC). This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Helping Your Mate Face Breast Cancer written by Judy C. Kneece and published by Educare Publishing (SC). This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Helping Your Mate Face Breast Cancer written by Judy C. Kneece and published by Educare Publishing (SC). This book was released on 1995 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Breast Cancer Companion written by Nancy Sokolowski, RN, OCN and published by Demos Medical Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Breast Cancer Husband written by Marc Silver and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2004-09-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for men whose wives contract breast cancer offers emotional support and advice every husband needs, including guidance from breast cancer doctors and the shared experiences of those who have gone through the same ordeal. Original. 30,000 first printing.
Download or read book Journal of the National Cancer Institute written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 10 Best Questions for Surviving Breast Cancer written by Dede Bonner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A good mind knows the right answers...but a great mind knows the right questions. And never are the Best Questions more important than after a diagnosis of breast cancer. Drawing on cutting-edge research and original interviews -- including with former surgeon general C. Everett Koop, bestselling author Dr. Susan Love, well-known breast cancer survivors like Betty Rollin, and experts at the top cancer-care centers in the world -- The 10 Best Questions™ for Surviving Breast Cancer is a guide you'll take with you into your doctor's office and keep close to you through every step of your treatment and recovery. In addition to the medical questions, you'll also learn what you need to ask your friends, colleagues, and loved ones so that the rest of your life doesn't take a backseat to your diagnosis: "How many days I can afford to be out?" (p. 211) "What questions are my children likely to ask?" (p. 261) "When will I be comfortable being intimate again with my partner?" (p. 234) With a wealth of resources and up-to-the-minute information, The 10 Best Questions™ for Surviving Breast Cancer shows you how to move past a scary diagnosis and use the power of questions to become your own best advocate for your emotional, mental, physical, and financial health.
Download or read book 101 Easy Things to Do for a Loved One with Cancer written by Cynthia Sleeper and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know someone who was recently diagnosed with Cancer and you'd like to help but you just don't know how? Are you going through Cancer yourself and feel all alone but when friends try to help you shut them out. This resource gives quick easy ideas on how to help and how to be helped while dealing with the Cancer experience. I am a recent Cancer survivor and team up with newly diagnosed Breast Cancer patients as a mentor. I've met many different types of people through this and have put together 101 simple ideas for Cancer survivors' friends, family, co-workers or loved one to use when they've run out of ideas and really want to be supportive.
Download or read book The MammySlammy written by Sharon Marler and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-02-26 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the knowledge that early detection of breast cancer can save lives, many still fail to schedule, or choose to ignore or postpone, appointments for mammograms because of misdirected embarrassment, lack of support, or fear. The MammySlammy book addresses the reasons for avoidance and tells how to erase all the excuses by turning the annual glamour shot into a celebration of life. It provides you with an innovative way to make mammography fun and stress-free as women wisely join together to ensure their good health and quality of life. Detect, isolate, and treat breast cancer before it becomes yet another tragic story. Have that yearly exam, but do it with friends, chocolate, gifts, balloons, and celebration! Welcome to a delightfully insightful book as a cancer survivor tells why she organized something as radical as MammySlammy Parties. Get ready for an enjoyable read that will make you laugh, and cry, and will motivate you to get out your pen and paper to plan your own day of fun, networking, and memorable activities.
Download or read book Breast Cancer Q A written by Charyn Pfeuffer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What questions should I ask my doctor about my diagnosis? How do I tell my children I have breast cancer? What types of breast biopsies are there? Do I have a choice between mastectomy and lumpectomy? Where can I find a breast cancer support group? As a longtime volunteer at the Women's Cancer Resource Center, certified breast health educator Charyn Pfeuffer has been on the front lines providing clear, authoritative answers to patients and caregivers for the one hundred most frequently asked questions about everything from testing to treatment. Now, in response to the urgent concerns of breast cancer patients and their families, Pfeuffer draws on the expertise of traditional and alternative health-care practitioners to create this comprehensive, accessible survival manual. The book also features the most up-to-date information on medical terminology, support groups and resource centers, cancer medication, and complementary and alternative therapies. This is the book every woman will need, to make informed decisions about her own treatment and recovery. Book jacket.
Download or read book Coping with Breast Cancer written by Sharon L Manne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-14 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a couple coping with early stage breast cancer, it is important that you face the stresses and challenges together. To support each other during this difficult time, you and your partner may benefit from enhancing your relationship and stress management skills. This couples-focused group program will help you and your partner become an effective coping "team." To strengthen your relationship, you and your partner will learn how to better support and communicate with one another using proven relationship-enhancing techniques. You will also learn to strengthen emotional intimacy by taking the time to discover each other's needs and engaging in "wish list" activities to bring you closer together. Relaxation techniques will help you and your partner manage stress so you are better able to deal with the challenges of cancer. The group format provides a supportive environment and gives you a chance to learn from other couples dealing with similar issues. This workbook is designed to be shared by you and your partner, as you work together as a team. It includes all the forms and information you will need during the six-week program. Exercises will help you apply what you learned in group to coping with cancer and your life as a couple. By the end of the program, you will have acquired many useful skills that will benefit you, your partner, and your relationship for a lifetime. TreatmentsThatWorkTM represents the gold standard of behavioral healthcare interventions! · All programs have been rigorously tested in clinical trials and are backed by years of research · A prestigious scientific advisory board, led by series Editor-In-Chief David H. Barlow, reviews and evaluates each intervention to ensure that it meets the highest standard of evidence so you can be confident that you are using the most effective treatment available to date · Our books are reliable and effective and make it easy for you to provide your clients with the best care available · Our corresponding workbooks contain psychoeducational information, forms and worksheets, and homework assignments to keep clients engaged and motivated · A companion website (www.oup.com/us/ttw) offers downloadable clinical tools and helpful resources · Continuing Education (CE) Credits are now available on select titles in collaboration with PsychoEducational Resources, Inc. (PER)
Download or read book Breast Cancer Husband written by Marc Silver and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2004-09-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique guide, like none other on the market-packed with medical information, practical tips, psychological insight, and coping strategies--to help men help the women they love through this trying time. When Marc Silver became a breast cancer husband three years ago, he learned firsthand how frightened and helpless the breast cancer husband feels. He searched in vain for a book that would give him the information and advice he so desperately sought. Now this award-winning journalist has compiled just the kind of emotionally supportive and useful resource that he wished he had been able to consult-to give men the tools they need to help their wives, their families, and themselves through this scary, uncertain time. In his years as a consumer journalist and veteran of the News You Can Use staff at U.S. News & World Report, Marc Silver learned what kind of information and advice on medical crises readers found most valuable. He draws on that experience as he covers in depth all the issues couples coping with breast cancer will have to face during diagnosis, treatment, and beyond. Highlights include: - The shared experiences of other breast cancer husbands - Guidance from top cancer doctors in the country - Advice on when, how, and what to tell your young children - Tips on coping with radiation and chemotherapy - A candid discussion of sex and intimacy following breast cancer surgery More than 200,000 women are diagnosed with cancer each year in the United States. At last, with this book, the men who love them have a road map to help them through a difficult and unprecedented journey.
Download or read book Coping with Cancer written by Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2021-02-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compassionate book presents dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a proven psychological intervention that Marsha M. Linehan developed specifically for the impossible situations of life--and which she and Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz now apply to the unique challenges of cancer for the first time. *How can you face the fear, sadness, and anger without being paralyzed by them? *Is it possible to hold on to hope without being in denial? *How can you nurture supportive relationships when you have barely enough energy to take care of yourself? Learn powerful DBT skills that can help you make difficult treatment decisions, manage overwhelming emotions, speak up for your needs, and tolerate distress. The stories and collective wisdom of other cancer patients and survivors illustrate the coping skills and show how you can live meaningfully, even during the darkest days.
Download or read book Diary of a Breast Cancer Husband written by J. Scott Lyman and published by Times Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diary of a Breast Cancer Husband is an extraordinarily intimate and brutally revealing chronicle of one man's personal and psychological journey with his wife down the path of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. Scott is a successful malpractice attorney. His beautiful wife, Suanne, is his office administrator and business manager. They live on top of a ravine overlooking the Pacific Ocean. They have three sons, the youngest still in high school. Life has been good to Scott and Suanne. Then breast cancer strikes. Scott's reaction is one of consuming guilt and fear. His fear is not just for his wife. He also fears his own reaction to the possible changes he may face in his own life as a result of breast cancer. His response is to immerse himself in the world of breast cancer and write about men and breast cancer, and about men and breasts.
Download or read book Ticking Off Breast Cancer written by Sara Liyanage and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara is a married forty-something mother of two and part-time lawyer in London, Sara managed her life by to-do list after to-do list. However, when breast cancer appeared on her list, Sara's life as she previously knew it, was thrown upside down. Ticking Off Breast Cancer is a chronological narrative of Sara's life from the day of her diagnosis and throughout treatment. It follows her as she deals with the physical, emotional and mental challenges thrown at her by cancer and provides an honest insight into the treatment given to a breast cancer patient together with the impact that this has on someone's life. By sharing many of her to-do lists in the form of checklists at the end of each chapter, Ticking Off Breast Cancer provides thoughtful, helpful advice for every step of the way.
Download or read book Cancer Resources written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Helping Your Friend Through the Storm written by Debbie Hand and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helping Your Friend through the Storm offers new ideas to help you expand the ways that you help others. Debbie shares personal experiences taken from her cancer journal that delve into the emotional hardships she endured. She shares personal examples, expounding with practical and unique approaches to adopt as your own. Encouraging Scripture verses as well as biblical stories brought to life will inspire you to minister to others as they endure hardships. While going through brain surgery to correct epileptic seizures, followed by breast cancer one year later, Debbie experienced physical, emotional, and spiritual struggles in her life. She soon experienced joy in talking to new cancer patients and saw how God was using her life experiences to help others. Debbie returned to college and got a degree in social work. While she was in her third year, she found out that she had breast cancer on the other side. Along with family and friends, she had a group of future social workers at her side. Debbie understands personally the needs that others experience as they go through difficulties in their lives. She has been touched by the love that God has shown her through her family and friends in different and unique ways. Debbie's prayer is that her personal experiences will help guide you as you help loved ones through the storm.
