Thriving Beyond Cancer: Hope, Understanding, and Validation of the Cancer Journey: Volume 1 - Softcover

Henifin, CLC, CN-BA, Sharon M; Cameron, MD, PT, MCR, Michelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1544049188 ISBN 13: 9781544049182

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Each year over 280,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with breast cancer alone. But what happens when the treatment is over? How do these women and their families pick up the pieces of their lives after cancer treatment and move on? My book Thriving Beyond Cancer, Hope, Understanding and Validation for the Cancer Survivior fills the gap between survivor stories and positive psychology. It gives the reader the emotional validation they need and a road map to their life beyond cancer. When the doctor dismisses a patient after months of close scrutiny and says, “See you in three months,” it feels as if the medical rug has been yanked out from under her feet. There’s little or no conversation about the time after treatment and even less written about this precarious time. How does the patient cope during this void? Some worry obsessively about their cancer returning, others wallow in the unprocessed grief. They feel alone and afraid. Women are living longer than ever after having cancer yet many find their lives ill-fitting and dissatisfying. These women have glimpsed their mortality which directly affects their life’s trajectory and priorities. These are all heavy topics but they are spun in a warm and loving way with concrete suggestions how to move past the craziness while validating their feelings with survivor stories and quotes.The book addresses the fear of recurrence, the anger, the aging effects, chemically induced menopause, and issues with family and friends. There is conversation around the lasting nature of treatment side effects and how to deal with them physically and emotionally while encouraging survivors to create a plan to reach future dreams. It also talks about advanced disease, everyone’s nightmare, demystifying and bringing hope to those managing the chronic side of cancer. Breast cancer is a popular topic but this fresh and timely approach to survivorship will become a must-have in the world of cancer. It will give hope and the tools women everywhere need after cancer. The topic is relevant and important to any woman going through or finished with treatment and those in their lives.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1544049188
• ISBN 13: 9781544049182
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232