At age 36, Julie Silver was enjoying an exciting career as a physician at the Harvard Medical School and a rewarding personal life as a mother, wife, and award-winning writer. But she had the sense that something was wrong. Two years and multiple doctors later, she was diagnosed with the breast cancer she had suspected all along and was catapulted into the role of cancer patient. Like many cancer patients who experience serious side effects from treatment, Dr. Silver emerged from therapy feeling not better, but exhausted and physically devastated. As she worked to heal herself, she became determined to write a book to help others recover after cancer treatment. Here Dr. Silver shares her own cancer journey and offers a step-by-step plan for physical healing, including exercise and diet recommendations and instructions for fighting fatigue, monitoring mood, and overcoming setbacks. Dr. Silver's advice comes from the heart―and from her experience as both a cancer survivor and a doctor who has spent her career helping people heal from serious illnesses and injuries. No matter where they are in their own journey with cancer, readers will find After Cancer Treatment a personal, practical, and powerful guide to recovery.

A self-management program for cancer survivors offers counsel on how to take charge of one's physical, mental, and emotional challenges, in a step-by-step reference that makes recommendations for navigating the health-care system, obtaining affordable medication, and managing stress. Original.

Product Description: This guide will help patients, regardless of their type of cancer, regain lost physical and psychological functions. Conditions such as fatigue, loss of strength, and depression are all too common with many cancers. Indeed, it is often not he cancer itself but the treatment and the inactivity that follow, that affect the afflicted individual...read more

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Product Description: Exercise and Cancer Recovery provides specific guidelines for cancer exercise intervention and is full of leading-edge information on how exercise rehabilitation can help cancer patients deal with treatment-related symptoms both during and after treatment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Introduction The prevailing model of medical care for patients with cancer emphasizes the curative efforts of medical technology toward the eradication of the disease. Yet the suffering of the patient as a result of both the disease and our efforts to treat it is often overlooked...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Teach effective problem-solving programs for nonprofessional cancer patient caregivers who have a limited knowledge of the disease!Family caregivers are often uninformed about what they should do with family members with cancer; they are unskilled in carrying out caregiver duties and are emotionally involved as well...read more

Product Description: Cancer and its treatments typically have multiple and devastating effects on swallowing, speech, voice, language, respiratory and hearing systems. The successful management and rehabilitation of this challenging and high-risk patient population requires team-based collaboration and clinical expertise...read more

Product Description: This extraordinary collection of facts and figures, personal experiences, and professional insights will help readers negotiate the challenges of survivorship with dignity and humor.

A reassuring guide by a doctor who is also a cancer survivor states that survivors should pursue new lives rather than attempt to recover past ones and addresses a variety of issues in a question-and-answer format. Reprint. Tour.

Examines the emotions, problems, and challenges cancer patients face, shares the latest information on treatment options, and discusses stress reduction and support sources

Presents the stories of cancer survivors, offers advice on returning to a normal life, and describes cancer-based discrimination

Product Description: Attention to psychological problems is now recognised as an essential part of cancer patient care. Helping the cancer patient to cope with and overcome the difficulties associated with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer is a rapidly expanding field of interest...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Challenging Cancer" shows people with cancer how they can stop feeling like victims and regain control of their lives. Nina Kfir, a psychotherapist specialising in crisis intervention, and Maurice Slevin, a cancer physician, describe how cancer patients can use the crisis that cancer brings about rather than be used by it...read more

Provides information on resources needed for fighting cancer, with details on possible treatments, relations with doctors and family members, maintaining emotional strength, quality living, and life after cancer

Product Description: A presentation of the physical therapy techniques used in the rehabilitation of patients with cancer in the lung, breast, head and neck, and patients with leukaemia, lymphoma and sarcoma. This book also discusses the quality of life issues in regard to the side effects of chemotherapy and surgical intervention...read more

Product Description: The symposium on supportive care in cancer patients, which took place in St. Gallen, Switzerland, on February 18-21, 1987, wel­ comed renowned experts in the field and more than 600 partici­ pants from 25 countries with the aim of stimulating discussion on how to improve our professional skills and personal attitudes to­ ward cancer patients in all stages of their disease...read more