Compassionate Cancer Care: Words That Heal - Softcover

Efthymiou, Dr Iris

9798188750220: Compassionate Cancer Care: Words That Heal

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ISBN 13: 9798188750220

Publisher: Independently published, 2025

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A cancer diagnosis changes everything in an instant, including the words the people around you choose to use.

Dr Iris Panagiota Efthymiou-Egleton has stood on both sides of that conversation. First as a behavioural health economist who spent her career studying how communication shapes health outcomes. Later as a patient who was told she had a twenty five percent chance of living two years, and who is cancer free today.

Compassionate Cancer Care: Words That Heal brings both of those lives into a single book. Part memoir, part evidence-based manual, it walks through what the research actually says about breaking bad news well, managing hope and uncertainty honestly, and building the kind of trust that changes how a patient experiences their own illness, alongside the real, lived story of a devastating first diagnosis, and the moment a different clinician's question, "Is she God? Does anyone know how long a person will live?", changed everything.

This second edition has grown substantially: full chapters on paediatric oncology, genetic risk, AI in modern cancer care, financial toxicity, and the economics of communication itself, alongside twenty-two stories drawn from real patterns in cancer care, and a complete training toolkit, workshop modules, a phrase bank, a case study library, and a communication self-assessment, built for hospitals, universities, and the companies that develop the medicines patients rely on.

Whether you are a patient, a family member, a nurse, an oncologist, a medical student, or someone responsible for training the next generation of clinicians, this book offers the same thing from different directions: proof, grounded in both evidence and lived experience, that the words used in a cancer diagnosis are not separate from the treatment. They are part of it.

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