Living with Cancer

A Step-by-Step Guide for Coping Medically and Emotionally with a Serious Diagnosis
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4214-2233-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 494 g

Reihe: A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book

A comprehensive and compassionate guide for patients and families living with the physical and emotional effects of cancer.

The prospect of entering treatment is overwhelming for anyone facing a diagnosis of cancer. While patients have access to a vast amount of medical information online, this advice is often unreliable or confusing. In Living with Cancer, Drs. Vicki A. Jackson and David P. Ryan have crafted the first step-by-step guide aimed at helping people with this life-defining disease grasp what’s happening to them while coping physically and emotionally with cancer treatment.

An empathetic resource full of relatable patient stories, this book teaches patients and caregivers how to ask the right questions to get the best possible care—beginning at the moment of diagnosis. Drs. Jackson and Ryan explain how to work with a team of doctors and nurse practitioners to minimize symptoms and side effects while living as fully as possible in the face of cancer. They relay important information about understanding prognosis, and they translate what doctors mean when they describe tests, treatments, and medical procedures. Finally, they discuss hospice care and answer questions about continuing treatment and managing the final phase of life.

Based on new research and a groundbreaking program in which patients are treated with palliative care—along with the best cancer care—during the course of their illness, this honest and caring book provides the right advice to use at the right time throughout a journey with cancer. It allows a person with cancer to concentrate on living the best life possible, despite an uncertain future. Patients at every stage will find Living with Cancer a comprehensive, thoughtful, and accessible guide for navigating the illness and its treatment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Vicki A.

Ryan, David P.

Seaton, Michelle D.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Arzt-Patient-Beziehung
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Onkologie, Krebsforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: How am I Going to Get Through This?
Part I: Making Sense of Your Diagnosis
Chapter 2: Setting the Goals of Treatment
Chapter 3: Understanding the Biology of Cancer
Chapter 4: What Is a Liquid Tumor?
Chapter 5: How to Prepare for Treatment
Chapter 6: Tests and Scans in Treatment
Chapter 7: How Am I Supposed to Cope with This?
Chapter 8: How Do I Cope with Changes in My Body?
Part II: Managing Symptoms and Side Effects
Chapter 9: Controlling Nausea
Chapter 10: Managing Constipation, Diarrhea, and Bowel Obstruction
Chapter 11: Minimizing Pain
Chapter 12: Should I Worry about Shortness of Breath?
Chapter 13: What If I'm Losing Weight?
Chapter 14: What if I Have a Sudden Fever?
Chapter 15: Bleeding and Clotting Issues
Chapter 16: Why am I So Exhausted?
Chapter 17: Why Do People Keep Asking if I Am Depressed or Anxious?
Chapter 18: How Does Cancer Affect My Brain?
Part III: Dealing with Progressing Cancer
Chapter 19: They Tell Me the Cancer Is Progressing
Chapter 20: Living and Hoping with Advancing Cancer
Chapter 21: What About Practical Concerns?
Chapter 22: My Doctor Says that Chemotherapy Is No Longer Effective
Chapter 23: My Body Feels Like It's Shutting Down
Chapter 24: What Is a Good Death?
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jackson, Vicki A.
Vicki A. Jackson, MD, MPH (NEWTONVILLE, MA), is the chief of palliative care and geriatric medicine at Mass General Hospital.

Ryan, David P.
David P. Ryan, MD (MILTON, MA), is the chief of hematology/oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Seaton, Michelle D.
Michelle D. Seaton (NATICK, MA) is the coauthor of The Way of Boys and The Cardiac Recovery Handbook. Jackson, Ryan, and Seaton are coauthors of Living with Cancer: A Step-by-Step Guide to Coping Medically and Emotionally with a Serious Diagnosis.

Vicki A. Jackson, MD, MPH, is the chief of palliative care at Massachusetts General Hospital. David P. Ryan, MD, is the chief of hematology/oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Michelle D. Seaton is the coauthor of The Way of Boys: Raising Healthy Boys in a Challenging and Complex World and The Cardiac Recovery Handbook: The Complete Guide to Life after Heart Attack or Heart Surgery.