100 Q&A About Depression (100 Questions & Answers) (Paperback)

Written by a prominent physician from New York University Medical Center, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of this debilitating condition.

Coping With Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy (Paperback)

New advances in treatment offer cancer patients more options than ever before. Coping with Chemotherapy and Radiation is an accessible, accurate guide to the latest developments in radiation therapy and chemotherapy. You will find important information on how chemotherapy and radiation treatments work; what to expect from treatments, how to alleviate common side effects, and more.

The Activist Cancer Patient: How to Take Charge of Your Treatment (Paperback)

Cancer survivor Beverly Zakarian knows firsthand that you can improve your odds of surviving cancer if you take an active role in your treatment. Now, you too can discover the benefits of taking charge. After all, you and your disease are unique, and so is your path to good health. Even the most caring of doctors needs your help to determine which treatment is best for you.

Chemotherapy and Radiation For Dummies (Paperback)

This reassuring, optimistic guide helps people get a handle on treatment options and explains in plain English how chemotherapy and radiation therapy really work. It offers detailed advice on how to alleviate and cope with side effects-which range from hair loss to nausea to anemia-and describes how good nutrition, meditation, support groups, and other techniques and resources can help in the recovery process.

Eating Well Through Cancer: Easy Recipes & Recommendations During & After Treatment (Spiral-bound)

For 15 years, Dr. Miletello, an oncologist, wanted to write a cookbook as one of the most frequently asked questions was, "What should I eat?" Holly Clegg, author of the successful Trim & Terrific cookbook series has answered this question with her common sense approach to cooking and her easy, everyday recipes that has become her trademark for healthy cooking in today's hectic world.

Betty Crocker's Living with Cancer Cookbook: Easy Recipes and Tips through Treatment and Beyond (Hardcover)

Good nutrition is vital to people undergoing cancer treatment, yet treatment side effects can make eating seem unappealing. Now Betty Crocker, two oncologists, and a nutritionist bring back the joy of eating topeople undergoing cancer treatment with delicious recipes that are nutritious and easy to make.

Pureed Foods with Substance and Style

Here is a unique cookbook for health facilities with in-patient populations. Pureed Foods with Substance and Style is a breakthrough! It reveals and exciting methods of preparing good-looking, good-tasting pureed foods. With this how-to book, you'll learn a new way to puree, thicken, and reshape foods in their original forms to enhance taste and eye appeal. By doing so, you'll contribute to improved quality of life and restored dignity for people with swallowing disorders. Also includes a complete overview of swallowing disorders.

The I-Can't-Chew Cookbook: Delicious Soft Diet Recipes for People with Chewing, Swallowing, and Dry Mouth Disorders

This book is an ideal recommendation for patients experiencing trouble chewing and/or swallowing due to dental or medical impairment.

The Dysphagia Cookbook: Great Tasting and Nutritious Recipes for People With Swallowing Difficulties

The Dysphagia Cookbook is a specialty cookbook filled with nutritious, great-tasting recipes for those whose eating options are limited by chewing and swallowing difficulties. All of the recipes focus on enhancing flavor, presentation, texture, aroma, and color, for there are many other products that supply nutritious calories or liquids but give little attention to these quality-of-life concerns.

One Bite at a Time: Nourishing Recipes for People With Cancer, Survivors, and Their Caregivers

Tantalizing recipes that should appeal to just about anybody with taste buds...plenty of useful information and interesting anecdotes.

The Cancer Survival Cookbook: 200 Quick & Easy Recipes with Helpful Eating Hints

Eating can be a fun, pleasant part of your life or it can become hard and frustrating.

The Cancer Patients Workbook

Balancing the serious work of survival with an upbeat tone, The Cancer Patient's Workbook maintains a positive outlook while avoiding pointless platitudes. As a survivor of Stage 4 lung cancer, author Joanie Willis is all too familiar with both the spiritual trials and the daily frustrations that cancer can bring. Her book is fundamentally pragmatic, but incorporates alternative healing, humor, and personal reflections.

Every Second Counts, by Lance Armstrong

Every Second Counts confronts the challenge of moving beyond his cancer experience, his first Tour victory, and his celebrity status. Few of Armstrong's readers will ever compete in the Tour de France (though cyclists will relish Armstrong's detailed recounting of his 2000-2003 tour victories), but all will relate to his discussions of loss and disappointment in his personal and professional life since 1999. They will relate to his battles with petty bureaucracies, like the French court system during the doping scandal that almost halted his career. And they will especially relate to constant struggles with work/life balance.

Informed Decisions

Covering all types of cancer in general terms, this tome from the American Cancer Society discusses detection, diagnosis, and treatment in five parts, subdivided into 31 chapters. Throughout, the information is presented logically, clearly, and in a visually accessible manner, with copious subheads, sidebars (case histories, checklists, dos and don'ts, etc.), headnotes (Tips and Advice, Cancer Basics), and questions to ask the doctor.

Here and Now: Inspiring Stories of Cancer Survivors

The theory behind support groups is that sharing your experiences with others who have "been there" is mutually beneficial. Here & Now is a collection of narratives from men, women, and children of various ages, ethnicities, and backgrounds (including well-known actors, authors, and musicians) who describe their cancers and the ways they coped (or didn't) with a life-altering diagnosis. The authors (a photographer/author and a writer, respectively) are both cancer survivors.

The Cancer Monologue Project

Dancing in Limbo : Making Sense of Life After Cancer

It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

What to Eat if You Have Cancer

The Chemotherapy & Radiation Therapy Survival Guide (Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy Survivor's Guide, 2nd Ed)

Chicken Soup for the Surviving Soul: 101 Healing Stories to Comfort Cancer Patients and Their Loved Ones

Questions and Answers on Death and Dying

On Death and Dying is one of the most important books ever written on the subject and is still considered the bench-mark in the care of the dying. It became an immediate bestseller, and Life magazine called it "a profound lesson for the living." This companion volume consists of the questions that are most frequently asked of Dr. Kübler-Ross and her compassionate answers.

Cancer: 50 Essential Things to Do

This definitive guide, revised and updated with over 25% new material, empowers cancer patients and their loved ones to move beyond their disease. Greg Anderson, a cancer survivor, has designed this book for the recently diagnosed, those with recurring symptoms, and those who are well but have a lingering fear that the disease may strike again.

Betty Crocker's Living with Cancer Cookbook: Easy Recipes and Tips through Treatment and Beyond

American Cancer Society's Guide to Pain Control: Powerful Methods to Overcome Cancer Pain

This guide for cancer patients, their families, and caregivers describes how to get effective pain relief. A sampling of topics includes describing and measuring your pain, drug tolerance, managing side effects, complementary non-drug treatments, government sources of financial assistance.

The Human Side of Cancer

The Human Side of Cancer combines sensitive advice and explanations with quotes and anecdotes of cancer patients, research summaries, self-help tips, and checklists. The book is for both the cancer survivor and family members. Anyone dealing with cancer will benefit from Holland's wisdom and experience.

Cancer in the Family : Helping Children Cope With a Parent's Illness

Cancer is often called a "family disease" because it affects more than the person who is diagnosed. For families with young or adolescent children, this is especially true. This book outlines valuable steps necessary to help children understand what happens when a parent has been diagnosed with cancer.

Mind, Body, and Soul: A Guide to Living with Cancer

This book is a one-of-a-kind reference guide for cancer patients and their families. Written with genuine, heartfelt compassion, Nancy Dahm makes you feel like she's sitting next to you as she speaks.

The Complete Cancer Survival Guide

At age 51, Peter Teeley, former press secretary to George Bush, was given a 50-50 chance of surviving his stage III colon cancer. Like most newly diagnosed cancer patients, he knew little about the disease and less about possible treatments. He tenaciously sought out information and saved his own...

Cancers of the Mouth and Throat: A Patient's Guide to Treatment

Patients and family members seeking comprehensive coverage of mouth and throat cancers will get little help from this latest guide by otolaryngologist Lydiatt and plastic and reconstructive surgeon Johnson. Sadly, this well-written and easy-to-read guide falls short in detailing the specifics. For example, the chemotherapy section presents a good overview of how cancer drugs fight the disease but fails to name or provide data on the specific drugs used to combat each type of cancer.

Remarkable Recovery : What Extraordinary Healings Tell Us About Getting Well and Staying Well

A study of individuals who have miraculously recovered from terminal illnesses draws on medical, genetic, psychological, and spiritual profiles to help define the nature of healing and human health.

Getting Well Again

In this revolutionary book the Simontons profile the typical "cancer personality": how an individual's reactions to stress and other emotional factors can contribute to the onset and progress of cancer -- and how positive expectations, self-awareness, and self-care can contribute to survival. This book offers the same self-help techniques the Simonton's patients have used to successfully to reinforce usual medical treatment -- techniques for learning positive attitudes, relaxation, visualization, goal setting, managing pain, exercise, and building an emotional support system.

Diagnosis Cancer : Your Guide Through the First Few Months

This book is excellent! It is for anyone who has just received a cancer diagnosis, as well as for those around them who care. It covers everything that you need to understand during those first few months, and it does so in an easy to understand, straight forward manner. It is written with wisdom, experience, and kindness.

Easy-to-Swallow, Easy-to-Chew Cookbook: Over 150 Tasty and Nutritious Recipes for People Who Have Difficulty Swallowing (Paperback)

The simple act of eating is a challenge for millions of people whose ability to chew and swallow has been compromised by the debilitating effects of age or disease. The Easy-to-Swallow, Easy-to-Chew Cookbook presents a collection of more than 150 nutritious recipes that make eating enjoyable and satisfying for anyone who has difficulty chewing or swallowing. It also shares helpful tips and techniques to make eating easier for the elderly and those with such diseases as Parkinson's, AIDS, or head and neck cancers.