After You Hear It''s Cancer - A Guide to Navigating the Difficult Journey Ahead

After You Hear It's Cancer offers a step-by-step guide for recently diagnosed patients and their families as they embark on this arduous journey. The authors integrate cutting-edge research with the perspectives of numerous cancer patients to provide an empathic, but pragmatic handbook that should be required reading for every cancer patient.

List of contents

PART 1: DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT PLANNING
Prologue: A Life-Changing Experience
1: A Definitive Diagnosis: Setting the Stage for Treatment
2: How Prognosis Influences Your Treatment
3: How to Select your Doctors
4: Genetic Testing in Diagnosis and Treatment
5: Making Sense of Your Treatment Options
6: Understanding Clinical Trials
7: The Importance of Getting a Second Opinion

PART 2: DURING ACTIVE TREATMENT
8: The Emotional Roller-Coaster of Cancer
9: Methods to Minimize Side Effects
10: Make Nutrition and Exercise Part of Your Treatment Plan
11: What to Expect from Pain Control
12: How to Manage the Cost of Cancer
13: When Considering Complementary Therapies
14: The Role of Your Caregivers

PART 3: AFTER INITIAL TREATMENTS ARE OVER
15: When Initial Treatments Prove Insufficient
16: The Challenges of Surviving Cancer
17: Difficult Decisions at the End of the Journey
18: Choosing to Stop Treatment and the Role of Hospice
Addendum: Essential Resources

About the author

By John Leifer - With Lori Lindstrom Leifer

Product details

• Authors: John Leifer, John/ Leifer Leifer, Leifer John
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781538109038
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-0903-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Oncology, Coping with illness & specific conditions, MEDICAL / Oncology / General, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / Cancer, Coping with / advice about cancer, Cancer Patient;Dealing with Diagnosis;Family/Caregiver