The Breast Cancer Book: A Personal Guide to Help You Through It and Beyond [Paperback]

'full of practical advice and personal experience...very readable', Health and Fitness

The Breast Cancer Book offers practical advice and hope to women with breast cancer, detailing both the emotional and physical aspects of the illness

'This is an excellent book and I would recommend it to any woman with breast cancer.' Christine Fogg, Breast Cancer Care.

The Breast Cancer Book is the book Val Sampson looked for in vain when she was first diagnosed with breast cancer. Based on her own experience, that of other breast cancer patients and also on interviews with experts in this field, it looks at the conventional medical treatments of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, as well as at the part which can be played by complementary treatments such as reflexology, meditation and spiritual healing. It also sets out to give emotional help and support in coping with the fear and sense of loneliness that often comes with a diagnosis of cancer, and there are sections on how to get support from people around you, how to look good and feel better, and twenty things to try if you are feeling low. Above all, it shows women that it is possible to lead a happy and fulfilling life after a diagnosis of breast cancer, and that the power to achieve this lies within the individual. This book is the most well-balanced, supportive and honest book on breast cancer available today.

(20020218)

The Breast Cancer Book offers practical advice and hope to women with breast cancer, detailing both the emotional and physical aspects of the illness

A guide to help you through the experience of breast cancer
Val and I thought long and hard about this book before we wrote it. We looked around to see what was available and found that sensible, practical information on how to cope with breast cancer for women in the UK was hard to find. We both had many people, women with cancer, their family and their friends, come to us to ask our advice and so we thought that if we wrote it down we could reach a bigger audience. For me it was the chance to be the breast care nurse who you can take home with you and ask your questions any time you want to. For Val it was 'I've found out so much on my journey, I wish there had been a guide around that had told me all this at the beginning.' Of course everyone is different and there is the concern that what is the right thing for one person is not right for another, so we have tried to make it as user friendly as possible, so you read the bits you want to, when you want to. We really hope that you find this book helpful. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Val Sampson is a freelance journalist who has written for a wide range of newspapers ranging from The People to The Guardian and The Times, as well a numerous women's magazines including She, Woman, Woman's Own, Best, Woman's Weekly and You. She has had breast cancer twice in the last five years. She leads a seminar on Language and the Concept of Cancer for nurses at the Institute of Cancer Research. Debbie Fenlon was Val Sampson's breast care nurse when she was first diagnosed. She is now an oncology lecturer with the Institute of Cancer Research in association with the Royal Marsden NHS Trust. The foreword is by Ian Smith, Professor of Cancer Medicine, Medical Director, Royal Marsden Hospital and the Institute of Cancer Research. (20020218)