Life After Cancer I immediately wanted to recommAnd this book to my patients. [It] will serve as a roadmap to help cancer patients anticipate feelings and stages of the coping process. It will help demystify the complex and often baffling set of experiences on the uncertain path of cancer survivorship. - Elisabeth Targ, M.D., Geraldine Brush Cancer Research Institute, California Pacific Medical Center An intimate and inspiring account of the authors' real-life experiences of surviving cancer. The authors provide a straightforward account of what life is like after the whirlwind of doctors' visits and radical treatments comes to an And.
Table of Contents
Breaking the Silence. Waking Up in Limbo. Why Me? Taking the First Steps: Fears of Recurrence. Beginning to Dance: Grieving Our Losses. Side--Stepping the Dance: The Illusion of Control. Social Dancing After Cancer. Making Sense of Life.
Author Biography
GLENNA HALVORSON--BOYD is a national consultant to health care organizations and has a doctorate in Human Development. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband. She survived oral cancer over ten years ago. LISA K. HUNTER is a partner in Health and Education Communication Consultants, Berkeley, California. She earned her doctorate in Human Development. She lives in Healdsburg, California. She is a three--year survivor of melanoma.
