After Cancer
After Cancer Books
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As anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer knows, surviving cancer is more than just killing cancer cells and getting through treatment. Patients must deal with the emotional, social, spiritual, and financial fallout of a cancer diagnosis. By helping survivors know that they can’t go back to where they were before cancer, Dr. Wendy Harpham liberates them to go forward to a different, “new normal.” In a reader-friendly, question-and-resolution format, Dr. Harpham (herself a cancer survivor) addresses a wide range of issues. Among them are understanding the medicine of reevaluation, follow-up, and prevention after treatment; dealing with the most common corporal aftereffects of treatment; learning how to make decisions about work and school; relating to friends and family; helping children deal with parents’ cancer; and coping with the practicalities of living wills and insurance.
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The font Harper Collins selected for her 2nd edition headings, and Contents, as well as the paper selection I received in the soft cover ed. are distractive. I found myself ignoring them.
This book might be more convincing if “my cancer” was used less;it is out of sync with the cut and dry medical develop that comprises about 83% of the pages.
Her experience does not touch on the aspects that to start a new life one must come to recognize that it is NOT a welcomed disease, one must refuse ownership, and it is augmented by our carcinogenic society. It is a journey on which a battle must be fought.
Her answers lack the private approach that she does possess, and instead revert to the “medical develop, hence a exchange in title might be apt. The dichotomy lies in “new life” in the title; Wendy stays away from that through her technique, where the ‘meat’ of this book in relation to the title is in the incomplete Prologue, which may possibly be expanded to everyone’s advantage. For example, why can Wendy “never go back to where I was.” If we have medical education – we come to realize, as did this author, that writing is healing (as author Margie Davis writes), but Halpham doesn’t acknowledge that a cancer experience levels us all; everyone can hug, weep, hurt, and be helped through involvement. Just as one gets closer to the emotional aspects of the author’s journey with cancer and its ramifications, zip, off we go into clinical answers.
I wonder if a non M.D. may possibly have had this book published? Either the editor did not intend the book for the general broadcast, or did not know how to touch the heart of those on this journey.
Rating: 3 / 5
This book is just brilliant, it clarifies in plain English all about treatment, it tells you what to guess during & afterwards, it is the most honest down to earth, sometimes very witty, most matter-of-fact thing I have read throughout my illness & recovery. Every Cancer patient should be given this book as they place the sickbay door, it would sure cut down on patients worrying & on doctors time. Thank You.
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought two of these books, one for my mother and one for myself as my mother had recently been through a cancer operation and radiation therapy and was given an initial excellent prognosis going ahead. Her cancer counsellor not compulsory the book for her to read.
My mother has found the book very helpful in helping her dealing with tender ahead after a life threatening experience. I have found the book helpful in trying to know how to act, what to do and say to help my mother during her suffering.
It is a very worthwhile book.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book has some very excellent insight and suggestions for making life simpler after chemo. But, with all the new therapies and drugs, this book needs a excellent update.
Rating: 3 / 5
Everyone with cancer or loved ones with cancer must read this brilliant book! It answers all those thousands of questions you have about what life is like after cancer!
Rating: 5 / 5