Their Cancer Your Journey

This is a book for anyone affected by another person's cancer. It deals with practical and emotional issues that arise on the journey.

Hope for Your Cancer Journey is a compilation of resources, personal healthcare experiences and anecdotes designed to empower individuals facing a cancer diagnosis. Cancer is challenging. No two people experience the same situations on this path. It is important not to compare yourself to others. Follow your heart when making decisions knowing that you know "you" better than anyone. This book aims to provide the confidence you need to make decisions about your care. There are many opportunities to take control. Our goal is for you to find guidance within these pages. Do not feel obligated to read each page or even read this book from beginning to end. Find the chapters that address your current situation and start there. Share other chapters with loved ones who may be willing to dig deeper and take steps to support you in reaching out to resources or in planning for you. Guide for Hope wants to empower each of you to live full and active lives to the best of your abilities. We hope by sharing hints and tips that you will be successful in achieving your goals.

Hope for Your Cancer Journey is a compilation of resources, personal healthcare experiences and anecdotes designed to empower individuals facing a cancer diagnosis. Cancer is challenging. No two people experience the same situations on this path. It is important not to compare yourself to others. Follow your heart when making decisions knowing that you know “you” better than anyone. This book aims to provide the confidence you need to make decisions about your care. There are many opportunities to take control. Our goal is for you to find guidance within these pages. Do not feel obligated to read each page or even read this book from beginning to end. Find the chapters that address your current situation and start there. Share other chapters with loved ones who may be willing to dig deeper and take steps to support you in reaching out to resources or in planning for you. Guide for Hope wants to empower each of you to live full and active lives to the best of your abilities. We hope by sharing hints and tips that you will be successful in achieving your goals.

“You have breast cancer.” These words begin a life-altering journey to live with and beyond cancer. You’ve experienced a myriad of emotions and have ongoing questions and concerns. In Your Journey beyond Breast Cancer, author Dr. Louise B. Lubin offers an interactive, how-to guide for women at any milepost on their breast cancer journey. She offers practical tools to manage uncertainty and loss, relationship changes, the importance of living in the present, and directly facing mortality, as well as how to find your inner strength and resiliency. Each of these challenges is addressed with specific tools to increase knowledge of your body and how to care for it, identify how the power of your mind and thoughts can work for you, and embrace the wisdom of your spirit to find balance and wholeness. Dr. Lubin, a clinical psychologist with forty years of experience, presents these life skills recognizing that each woman is a unique individual and not just a statistic. This integrative whole-person approach is the necessary path to find a healing balance and wholeness for your life with and beyond cancer.

The Journey Through Cancer is an essential guide for all cancer patients, their families, and their loved ones. As a board-certified oncologist, with more than ten years of experience serving as physician, guide, mentor, coach, and friend to thousands of cancer patients and their families, Dr. Jeremy Geffen has learned how cancer often challenges the mind, heart, and spirit of patients and their families as deeply --- if not more deeply --- than it challenges the physical body. Yet this simple truth is often overlooked by Western medicine as it aggressively pursues the best ways to diagnose and treat cancer. Too often physicians focus almost exclusively on the physical dimensions of the disease, rather than caring for the whole person who has the disease. Dr. Geffen presents a groundbreaking seven-level program, used at his cancer center in Florida, that addresses every dimension of the person with cancer--physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual: Education and Information, giving patients answers to questions about their disease and their treatment options. Psychosocial Support, focusing on the need for and benefits of a strong support network. The Body as Garden, exploring the vast array of alternative and complementary therapies. Emotional Healing, helping patients and families deal with the often overwhelming emotional challenges of cancer. The Nature of Mind, exploring how patients' thoughts and beliefs profoundly influence their journey. Life Assessment, showing patients how to discover their life's deepest meaning and purpose. The Nature of Spirit, connecting patients to the profoundly healing spiritual aspect of life we all share. In The Journey Through Cancer, Dr. Geffen presents a revolutionary model of healing based on the best treatments available from every culture and paradigm of medicine, one that respects and explores every possible avenue and resource for healing and transformation, blending East and West, body and mind, heart and technology, science and spirit.

"I’m thrilled that this book is available to cancer survivors. I only wish I’d had a copy 10 years ago when I was diagnosed with breast cancer." —Jill Eikenberry, actor and breast cancer advocate "A valuable resource for survivors." —Peari Moore, RN, MN, FAAN, Executive Director, Oncology Nursing Society "A Cancer Survivor’s Almanac is a clearly written, sensitive, and sensible guide to surviving with cancer. This almanac can help you more comfortably and knowledgeably take charge of your life with cancer." —David Spiegel, MD, Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, and author, Living Beyond Limits (Ballantine, 1994) "This indispensible quide provides helpful information and much-needed support that will improve the quality of life for cancer survivors." —Richard Klausner, MD, Director, National Cancer Institute "From the time of its discovery and for the balance of life, an individual diagnosed with cancer is a survivor." —National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship Charter A Cancer Survivor’s Almanac: Charting Your Journey serves as a guide to help survivors, caregivers, families, and friends chart a survivorship journey. Written by the survivors and professionals who founded the cancer survivorship movement, A Cancer Survivor’s Almanac provides essential up-to-date, practical information on: The latest information in medical diagnosis, treatment, pain control, and long-term and late effects of cancer treatment Health insurance — how to find and keep it under the most current laws (including the federal health reform law which takes effect in 1997) Tips on how to find and work with the best doctors and hospitals Understanding the risks and benefits of unconventional treatments How to win the battle against job discrimination Clear answers to legal and financial questions How to cope with the personal and social impact of cancer Communicating with family and friends, including dealing with grief and loss The benefits of peer support, with tips on starting your own peer-support network Advocating for yourself and others In addition, an expanded Resource Section lists hundreds of organizations and agencies that offer help regarding specific cancer-related issues and explains how to find cancer information through the Internet. Cancer survivors and their caregivers, families, and friends share their greatest gifts to today’s survivors— the power of knowledge. No cancer journey is easy. This book, however, provides the information, understanding, support, and resources to help dispel the myths and improve the quality of life with, through, and beyond cancer. All royalties from the sales of this book benefit the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship.

The book shares concise inclusive easy to read, understandable and applicable lessons to manage our cancer journey and not cancer manage us. Mr. Ward writes with conviction and passion from having faced cancer, heart attack and aneurysm to deliver tested methods he practices and preaches to continually improve his and other's journeys. Cancer - How to Improve your Journey focuses on the initial and extended struggle of coping. Learn how to adapt to a new normal that is different, but not necessarily bad, to move forward. The book's message fills a need for easy to understand engaging format for encouraging steps to manage and improve cancer's journey. The book's theme focuses on active engagement to how readers interact with text, which provides thought provoking questions as an impetus for readers to think critically to implement the principles to their own situation. Rather than what could be a chaotic experience, Mr. Ward's passion strives to direct the reader toward a peaceful personal growth experience. The collection of Notes offers fresh insightful perspectives to open the mind, heart and soul to manage the journey to improve demeanor and outlook for a better outcome. Learn to manage emotions and spirit to embrace a position of strength to take command of the journey.

Forget about your cancer for a moment and imagine your life without it. Now, ask yourself the question: does cancer have to consume my whole life? The answer lies dormant inside your mind and you urgently need to let it out, but you need help. Whether your hope is escaping the emotional pain, reducing the burden on your family, searching for remission, or just finding a new normal to cope peacefully, Cancer Survivorship: How to Navigate the Turbulent Journey is your roadmap. This step-by-step strategy to self-management teaches: · How to learn about your diagnosis and staging to help you make informed decisions about treatment choices · How to establish effective communication channels with your oncologist to allow for collaboration and to participate in making health decisions · How to categorize your health status at any moment on the cancer continuum and how to proceed with progress from that point forward · How to adapt to new lifestyle adjustments to help you find your new normal and what to do to reduce the chances of recurrence and the emergence of second primary cancers · How to navigate your survivorship journey during and after cancer to minimize side and late effects of treatment and sustain a healthy mind and body In this book, Hasan dives into what it means to enact a follow-up survivorship plan, why you should implement it, and then deeply explains how this can be done. If you think that cancer is treatable and can be controlled as a chronic condition, or you can’t find a reason not to hope and wish for remission or recovery, this is the book for you. Cancer is a complex system of complex diseases making the road to recovery or remission not easy, but possible. It is your turn to join the millions of cancer survivors who are living with cancer just fine. This book gives you the tools to enable you to join those millions, now get out there and use them.

Eib shares amazing, true stories of those who have been through cancer and discovers that when God and cancer meet, hope is never far away. This book is packed with a daily dose of encouragement.

Edie offers her readers a personal insight of her journey with breast cancer. The authors painful journey with breast cancer is definitely a spiritual journey. Faith and hope kept her living a positive life. Edie realized that her journey with breast cancer is not an individual involvement. Breast cancer will touch many women as well as men. After reading her book My Journey with Breast Cancer, she will bring out many comforting principles and healing scriptures for you to reflect on and follow. To everyone who have encountered this devastating journey with breast cancer, please read this little book. Edie urges you to share your testimony with others as well. She prays that this book will encourage you to treasure your health. Edie suggests that you pray without ceasing through this journey.