Author: Beverley van der Molen

Have you been diagnosed with cancer? If so you will want to know, right away, what to do and where to turn to for help and answers to your questions - about diagnosis, treatment and how the various health services can help you. There is so much to learn that it’s easy to feel daunted. This informative book, featuring personal stories from people who have experienced cancer, guides you through the process of finding answers to your questions and to taking control of your cancer.

• Offers practical and useful advice when you have been diagnosed with cancer
• Features candid personal accounts of other people’s experiences of cancer and its treatment
• Advises on a range of issues such as: support, complementary therapies, getting back to work
• Shows you how to make your voice heard, get a second opinion, or to complain
• Includes principal cancer services in the UK and organisations to contact for further help and support

Contents:

• Introduction
• Uncertainty and diagnosis
• Finding your way around the cancer services
• Communicating with health professionals
• Sharing the diagnosis
• Making choices about treatment
• Coping with cancer
• What can you do to help yourself? Support and complementary therapies
• Other problems affecting communication
• Being heard
• Seeking information, further reading and resources

“A very useful and immensely supportive book, both for individuals facing cancer and for their loved ones…”
Dr Jo Clough, Senior Lecturer, University of Southampton

“…gives people the tools to enable them to ask directly for what they need.”
Petra Griffiths, Director, The Cancer Resource Centre

Normal Price: £17.99
Special Offer Price: £12.99