Full title: Living beyond breast cancer : a survivor's guide for when treatment ends and the rest of your life begins / Marisa C. Weiss and Ellen Weiss.

Author/creator: Weiss, Ellen, Weiss, Marisa C.

Call Numbers: N616.99449/19

Record Identifier: 74Vvd2gjZoOl

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xv, 506 p. ; 25 cm., Introduction: Living Beyond Breast Cancer -- Pt. 1. Treatment Over, On with Your Life. 1. Over, Not Over. 2. Support Groups -- Pt. 2. Additional Care Beyond Treatment. 3. You and Your Doctors: Continuing Care. 4. You and Other Health Professionals. 5. Tests: Peer, Poke, Prod. 6. After Mastectomy: Re-creating a Breast - With or Without Surgery. 7. Tamoxifen Therapy: Is It for You? -- Pt. 3. Coping with Lingering Side Effects of Treatment. 8. Fatigue and Loss of Energy. 9. Hair Loss: Terrible but Temporary. 10. Arm Lymphedema: Prevention and Management. 11. Other Lingering Side Effects of Treatment -- Pt. 4. Caring for Your New Self. 12. Intimacy, Sex, and Your Love Life. 13. Eating Right for Recovery and Beyond. 14. Weight Control. 15. Boosting Your Immune System. 16. Breast and Chest Wall Self-Examination. 17. A Child in Your Future? Fertility, Pregnancy, Adoption. 18. Menopause and Growing Older. 19. Alternative and Complementary Therapies -- Pt. 5. The Threat of Recurrence., 20. Can You Live Cancer Free? 21. Recurrence: When Cancer Comes Back. 22. Living with and Managing Metastatic Cancer. 23. Understanding and Controlling Pain. 24. Hospice. 25. Endings -- Pt. 6. Employment, Insurance, and Wills. 26. Job Issues and Health Insurance. 27. Wills for Living and the End of Life -- Pt. 7. Hope on the Horizon. 28. Understanding the Breast Cancer Genes. 29. Don't Let Breast Cancer Define You. 30. Conclusion: Turning "Why Me?" into "Why Anybody?" -- App. Arm and Shoulder Exercises -- Living Beyond Breast Cancer Membership Form.

Publishers: New York : Times Books, c1997.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-478) and index.

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DDC: 616.99449

MMS ID: 991005759279702626