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Breast Cancer by Lucille Pederson & Janet M. Trigg
A Family Survival Guide
This work on breast cancer offers helpful advice on how to deal with the illness in terms of the family and the community. Among the topics covered are: holistic and alternative treatments; supportiveness of family and friends; coping by looking attractive; guidelines for friends; and other tips.This book is a helpful guide to detecting breast cancer, dealing with it physically and emotionally, and surviving it. Pederson and Trigg have drawn on their own experiences with cancer patients to provide frank discussions of the physiological and psychological aspects of breast cancer. Fears, truths, remedies, and alternatives are presented, weighed, and evaluated from the perspectives of doctors, nurses, patients, families, and friends. Issues such as insurance, physical changes, family stress, recovery, and death are discussed in language accessible to the general reader. The work includes valuable appendices including a glossary of terms, suggested reading, questions to ask doctors, tips on assisting those with serious illness, and a patient's bill of rights. |
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| Author(s) : | Format : Hardback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0897892933 | ISBN-13 : 9780897892933 |
| RRP : £70.00 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 30/04/1995
Publisher : Greenwood Press
Page Length : 288mm
Page Size : 235mm