Diagnosis Cancer: Your Guide Through the First Few Months - Softcover

Wendy Schlessel Harpham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393316912 ISBN 13: 9780393316919

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1997

Synopsis

Diagnosis: Cancer has established itself as the book every newly diagnosed cancer patient needs to have. In a question-and-answer format, Wendy Harpham--a doctor and cancer survivor--imparts all the learning she has gained, both medically and emotionally, to get a patient through the first few confusing and often scary months in the way that is best for them personally. In this revised and updated edition, Harpham discusses all the new developments in diagnosis and treatment, particularly new medications and formerly experimental methods that are now being used. Because of the growing number of people in managed care, she addresses how to work through the system to get full medical care, including when not to accept the limitations of one's health-care plan. Now a long-term cancer survivor, Harpham has an even deeper understanding of how to navigate the emotional and psychological roller coaster of being a newly diagnosed cancer patient. She incorporates her knowledge in this edition to help people become what she calls healthy survivors--cancer patients who get the best medical care possible and who minimize the pain, debility, and loss resulting from cancer.

About this title

About the Author

Wendy Schlessel Harpham, M.D., lives with her husband and three children in Dallas. She is the author of After Cancer: A Guide to Your New Life (Norton) and When a Parent Has Cancer, which includes her illustrated children's book Becky and the Worry Cup.

Edition details

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393316912
• ISBN 13: 9780393316919
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230