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Advice - The Voices of Experience
Nobody can help you or understand you like another survivor can. Here is a collection of books from survivors, supporters, and medical professionals who have dealt with diagnosis, treatment, and survival from breast cancer. They offer tips, good questions, advice, warnings, and stories to illustrate their expertise. The voices of experience can help you learn how they survived cancer.
Now What? A Patient's Guide to Recovery After Mastectomy
Three sisters write about surviving and recovering from a mastectomy. They give different perspectives on decisions, self-care, emotional turmoil, and recovery from mastectomy. This is a very practical book full of resources and dependable advice for anyone facing a mastectomy.
A Helping Hand - Simple Tools To Enhance Recovery and Life During & A…
In "A Helping Hand," Grace Gawler tells her own cancer recovery story and describes how she came to the philosophical basis of her holistic approach to healing and living with cancer. She offers several non-judgmental tips on how to embark on cancer recovery. Learn more about cancer recovery from "A Helping Hand."
Book Review - Learning From Breast Cancer Survivors
This upbeat and encouraging book focuses on the stories of early stage breast cancer patients and survivors. Dr. Nathanson, a breast surgeon at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan, collected their stories and arranged them along the lines of common experiences. His patients were female and male, from various backgrounds and ethnicities. Each story offers experience, advice, and support.
What You Don’t Know Can Kill You
Laura Nathanson shares her hard-earned expertise in her book, “What You Don't Know Can Kill You.” Her husband faced a misdiagnosed cancer, two lost years in which treatment would have saved him, and an unhelpful insurance company. Nathanson shows how you can avoid possible medical disasters, and work within the health system for the best possible results.
UPLIFT - Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors
Every breast cancer survivor is a hero and has learned some of the secrets of survival. Family, friends, and coworkers who are supportive also bring some wisdom to the fight. UPLIFT is a wonderful collection that lives up to its subtitle: “Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors.”
When It’s Cancer, The 10 Essential Steps to Follow After Diagnosis
This easy to use book is structured around the author’s PCMS – Personal Cancer Management System. The 10 step system is clearly written and always practical. You will learn: “how to tap into your innate cleverness, resourcefulness, and energy to outwit cancer. . . how to achieve and maintain a positive attitude and dignity in the face of a...
Reduce Your Cancer Risk: Twelve Steps to a Healthier Life
Reduce Your Cancer Risk is a book that is co-published by the American Cancer Society. Reduce Your Cancer Risk: Twelve Steps to a Healthier Life gives you a plan to reduce your cancer risk. Based in scientific fact, Reduce Your Cancer Risk is easy to understand. Read a review of Reduce Your Cancer Risk here.
Review of 39 Things to Make a Cancer Patient Smile by Susan Reif
Susan Reif was diagnosed with breast cancer and went through nine months of treatment. During her chemo, radiation, and surgery, she learned many ways that family, friends, and coworkers could be supportive. Her book, 39 Things To Make A Cancer Patient Smile, is a great resource for anyone who wants to be supportive to a breast cancer survivor.
