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The Breast Cancer Book: A Personal Guide to Help You Through it and Beyond (Positive health) - Softcover

Sampson, Val; Fenlon, Debbie

 
9780091856137: The Breast Cancer Book: A Personal Guide to Help You Through it and Beyond (Positive health)

Synopsis

This is the book Val Sampson needed when she was first diagnosed with breast cancer. Its purpose is to offer hope and support in coping with the fear and loneliness that often accompany cancer. Debbie Fenlon was Val's breast care nurse and is now a lecturer. This guide takes a look at conventional medical treatments of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and at the part to be played by complementary medicines. It shows how to manage your life and answers questions on how to break the news to family and friends. This book aims to show that it is possible to lead a happy and fulfilling life after a diagnosis of breast cancer.

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Review

"full of practical advice and personal experience...very readable" (Health and Fitness)

"This is an excellent book and I would recommend it to any woman with breast cancer." (Christine Fogg Breast Cancer Care)

From the Publisher

The Breast Cancer Book offers practical advice and hope to women with breast cancer, detailing both the emotional and physical aspects of the illness

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