Product Description
There are over 10 million cancer survivors in the United States and the number is growing as a result of better treatment, longer lives, and earlier detection. Whether you're a survivor yourself, or a loved one of a survivor, this book offers help. The only text available to provide both the healthcare professional's and patient's views, 100 Questions & Answers About Life After Cancer: A Survivor's Guide gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions. Written by experts in the field with "insider" advice from actual patients, this book is an invaluable resource.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 1 review)

Well-being after cancer - an excellent resource

Page Tolbert and Penny Damaskos are licensed clinical social workers who counsel cancer patients and cancer survivors, both in their private practices and at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Their considerable years of experience, and evident knack for listening to their clients' concerns, inform this useful and wide-ranging guide.

There are nine sections: "Survivorship: A Mixed Blessing," "Managing Uncertainty," "Communicating with Family and Friends," "Legal, Financial, and Workplace Concerns," "Too Young For Cancer," "Maintaining Your Health," "Sex, Intimacy, and Fertility," "Growth, Change, and Spirituality," "Cancer as A Chronic Illness," and, finally, a good appendix, glossary, and index.

This is realistic and realistically compassionate information about how to live, really, after cancer. Survivors of cancer need this information and counsel which is not, unfortunately, included in their treatment. Patients' mixed feelings regarding illness and recovery, finishing treatment, the interpretation of scary statistics, communicating and coping with friends, colleagues, and loved ones - along with the realities of medical insurance and legal and workplace issues are covered. Psychological challenges including disappointment, depression and anxiety, sexual dilemmas, the management of uncertainty, feelings of shame or guilt, the fear of recurrence, and many more topics are discussed.

Often, Q-and-A formats aren't organized so that the reader can simply find the several answers for which he or she is searching. One finds oneself paging through the whole thing for an answer or two. This book, in contrast, can be a quick reference or read in its entirety. It's not only well-organized, it's well-indexed. The questions are to-the-point and the answers are on average several paragraphs long. You never feel rushed.

I'd recommend this excellent and helpful guide without reservation to survivors of cancer and the people who care about them. For clinicians it's a useful compendium of the things that matter most to patients once treatment is finished.

-Eileen Galen

November 17, 2007

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