Breast Cancer: A Family Survival Guide

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A supportive, self-help manual on breast cancer. This book provides important information on detecting breast cancer, dealing with it physically and emotionally, and surviving it. Fears, truths, remedies, and alternatives are presented, weighed, and evaluated from perspectives of doctors, nurses, patients, families, and experts. Issues such as insurance, physical changes, family stress, recovery, and death are discussed frankly and openly. The work includes valuable appendices including a glossary of terms, suggestions for further reading, questions to ask doctors, tips on assisting those with serious illness, and a patient's bill of rights. This book is a helpful guide to detecting breast cancer, dealing with it physically and emotionally, and surviving it. Pederson and Trigg have drawn on their own experiences with cancer patients to provide frank discussions of the physiological and psychological aspects of breast cancer. Fears, truths, remedies, and alternatives are presented, weighed, and evaluated from the perspectives of doctors, nurses, patients, families, and friends. Issues such as insurance, physical changes, family stress, recovery, and death are discussed in language accessible to the general reader. The work includes valuable appendices including a glossary of terms, suggested reading, questions to ask doctors, tips on assisting those with serious illness, and a patient's bill of rights.

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All aspects of breast cancer are covered, including its medical basis; effects on the patient; and effects on husbands, children, and relatives. Names and addresses of sources of information are provided; glossary. Highly recommended.-Choice
"All aspects of breast cancer are covered, including its medical basis; effects on the patient; and effects on husbands, children, and relatives. Names and addresses of sources of information are provided; glossary. Highly recommended."-Choice

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LUCILLE M. PEDERSON is Associate Professor Emerita of the Department of Communication at the University of Cincinnati. JANET M. TRIGG is Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of Cincinnati.