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265 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
First steps: Facing a diagnosis and assembling your team -- Hand in hand: Additional partners on the road to wellness -- The diagnostic process: Defining the condition -- A different kind of challenge: Lack of diagnostic support in a developing country -- Major treatments: Explained by specialists and described by survivors -- Further guidance: Essential advice for the road to recovery -- The whole person: Addressing the mind, body and spirit -- Financing your wellness: Cancer and money management -- Finding community and compassion: Interactions between cancer support organizations and survivors -- Searching for answers: Two perspectives on research and programs that look to the future -- Summing it up: Inspiration and information -- Information and resources for cancer survivors. |
| Summary |
Surviving Cancer: Our Voices and Choices is a compilation of 70 voices belonging to survivors and a "cancer team" of doctors, social workers, cancer organization leaders, and other professionals directly involved in assisting cancer patients. These voices represent a variety of ages and cultures, and come from America, Canada, Cambodia, Israel, and India. Each voice holds a vast array of information and expertise. One of these voices received the Nobel Prize and another was granted the Order of Canada. Every author speaks from firsthand experience. The goal of each contributor is to ease the road and alleviate fear for any person who is told "You may have cancer." |
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Cancer -- Patients -- Biography.
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Cancer -- Patients -- Rehabilitation.
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Cancer -- Patients -- Services for.
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Cancer patients as artists.
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Cancer patients' writings.
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| Added Author |
Behr, Marion, editor of compilation, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
9780615856001 (paperback) : $20.95 |
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0615856004 (paperback) |
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