Cancer Survivorship: How to Navigate the Turbulent Journey

Cancer Survivorship: How to Navigate the Turbulent Journey
ISBN-10
1734492112
ISBN-13
9781734492118
Series
Cancer Survivorship
Category
Medical
Language
English
Published
2020-02-05
Publisher
Hussam Haj Hasan
Author
Hussam Haj Hasan

Description

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.

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