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Breast Cancer
A Family Survival Guide
Lucille M. Pederson, Janet M.Trigg
978-0-31337-349-7

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Breast Cancer

A Family Survival Guide

Lucille M. Pederson, Janet M.Trigg Lucille M. Pederson, Janet M.Trigg

April 1995

Praeger

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A compassionate and fact-filled manual on breast cancer for women and their families.

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.
Introduction
Finding and Reacting to a Lump
Physical, Emotional, and Psychosocial Effects of Breast Cancer
Types of Breast Cancer and Treatments
Breast Reconstruction
Holistic and Alternative/Complementary Treatments
Effects of Breast Cancer on Couple Relationships
Effects on Relationships with Children and Other Family Members
Relationships with Health Care Professionals
Communicating about Breast Cancer
Coping with the Breast Cancer Experience
Supportiveness of Family, Friends, and Community
Coping by Looking Attractive
Coping with Medical Forms and Insurance
Coping with Recovery
Opportunity for Growth
Coping with Death
Survival Guidelines for the Woman with Breast Cancer
Survival Guidelines for the Spouse/Partner, Children, and Other Family Members
Survival Guidelines for Friends
Epilogue
Appendix A: Suggested Readings
Appendix B: Resources
Appendix C: Questions to Ask the Doctors
Appendix D: Procedures for Detection of Breast Cancer
Appendix E: Bill of Rights for Patients and Families
Appendix F: Precautions for Preventing Lymphedema
Appendix G: 25 Practical Tips You Can Use to Help Those With Serious Illness
Notes to Chapters
Glossary
Bibliography
Index




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