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    Living with cancer : a practical guide / Dave Visel.

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    • Title:Living with cancer : a practical guide / Dave Visel.
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    • Author/Creator:Visel, Dave, 1938-
    • Published/Created:New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2006.

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Cancer--Popular works.
      Cancer--Treatment--Popular works.
      Cancer--Psychological aspects.
      Cancer--Patients--Family relationships.
    • Description:xix, 375 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
    • Notes:Includes index.
    • ISBN:081353819X (hardcover : alk. paper)
      0813538203 (pbk. : alk. paper)
      9780813538198
      9780813538204
    • Contents:Acknowledgements : the living with cancer team
      I. Introduction : setting the stage
      1. Now what?
      II. Orientation : some preliminary introductions and suggestions
      2. Personal decisions
      3. idea of patient partnering
      4. patients new world
      5. Know the illness
      6. Learn the lingo
      III. Team building : people don't beat cancer; teams of people do
      7. Deciding where to have treatment
      8. Medical teams
      9. partner
      10. God
      11. patient's personal organization
      12. patient's workplace
      13. Friends
      IV. Supporting resources : an inventory and evaluation of available tools
      14. Health insurance
      15. Public-assistance law
      16. Private-attorney services
      17. Family money
      18. Charities
      19. Support groups
      20. Fraternal orders and community-service groups
      21. Gifts and givers
      22. Public assistance
      23. Armed services
      24. Raising cash
      V. illness : help a patient can use, and things a patient should know, to make the best of this
      25. personal side of being very sick
      26. Nine easy ways to shoot yourself in the foot
      27. Treatments
      28. Nutrition and fitness
      29. Implants and replacement parts
      30. Transplants
      31. Vaccines
      32. Nontraditional healing practices
      33. Things they may forget to tell you about chemo
      34. Taking your medicine
      35. Watching and waiting
      36. Always wear your game face
      37. Getting "better"
      38. Easy cancer
      39. Tough cancer
      40. Dealing with pain and nausea
      41. Recovering from surgery
      VI. Related issues : topics you may need to know more about
      42. Budgeting
      43. Care at home
      44. Clinical trials
      45. Personal health disclosure guidelines
      46. Project management suggestions for partners
      47. Stuff happens
      48. Travel for medical purposes
      VII. Relationships : critical elements of patient-partner relationships
      49. Basic patient-partner relationships
      50. Parent-child partnerships
      51. When the patient is your spouse
      52. When the patient is a parent
      53. When the patient is not a relation
      One more thing ...
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