After Cancer – Your Guide to a New Life: A Guide to Your New Life - Hardcover

Harpham, W S

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9780393036640: After Cancer – Your Guide to a New Life: A Guide to Your New Life

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ISBN 10: 0393036642 ISBN 13: 9780393036640

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 1995

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After Cancer offers a complete look at the medical, practical, and psychosocial issues people must cope with during cancer recovery. Presented in a clear, question-and-answer format, the book covers such important topics as cancer prevention after treatment, understanding reevaluation and follow-up, common physical and social aftereffects, and more.

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This is the first book written by a doctor for the layperson that addresses the medicine, the practical issues, and the psychosocial elements of recovery after cancer treatment. The author, a cancer survivor herself, understands that surviving cancer is more than just killing cancer cells and getting through treatment. Patients must deal with the emotional, social, spiritual, and financial fallout of a cancer diagnosis. By helping survivors understand that they can't go back to where they were before cancer, she liberates them to move forward to a different, "new normal". Writing in a reader-friendly, question-and-answer format, Dr. Wendy Harpham addresses a wide range of issues realistically yet hopefully. Among them are understanding the medicine of reevaluation, follow-up, and prevention after treatment; dealing with the most common physical aftereffects of treatment; learning how to make decisions about work and school; relating to friends and family; helping children deal with parents' cancer; and coping with the practicalities of living wills and insurance. An important section on post-cancer fatigue will be of special interest to patients who find that exhaustion is one of the most difficult problems with which they deal.

About the Author:

Wendy Schlessel Harpham, MD, is the author of several books, including Diagnosis: Cancer and After Cancer. She lectures nationally on cancer and serious illness and lives in Dallas, Texas, with her husband and children.

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