Helping Your Mate Face Breast Cancer: Tips for Becoming an Effective Support Partner - Softcover

Kneece, Judy C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1886665133 ISBN 13: 9781886665132

Publisher: EduCare Inc., 2007

Synopsis

A breast cancer support partner's guide to understanding the emotional responses of mates, children and themselves; how to promote the physical and emotional recovery of a mate; how to tell the children; surgical and treatment options to be considered; how to recognize the effects of treatment and understand their management; how to effectively communicate during a crisis.

About this title

About the Author

Judy C. Kneece, RN, OCN, Breast Health Navigator, specializes in the educational and psychosocial needs of the breast cancer patient and her support system. She is also author of Your Breast Cancer Treatment Handbook, Finding A Lump In Your Breast, Solving the Mystery of Breast Pain and Solving the Mystery of Breast Discharge.

Review

"Being diagnosed with breast cancer at a young age can bring about an extreme sense of isolation. Having the understanding support of a loving, caring partner helps one to deal with the fears and provides a healing environment. This book can help guide a partner in that support. The partner will learn about the disease which has entered, and thus changed, their course in life together." --Randi Rosenburg, Young Survival Coalition

"This is an outstanding resource for women and men who have to deal with the diagnosis of breast cancer...It maintains the reader's interest throughout. I will certainly recommend this to patient's and support partners." --Maurice Nahabedian, MD, FACS, Director for Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institution

"This book needs to be available when the word cancer is first spoken. It helped me to know that my partner's reactions where normal... and so were my responses." --Rev. Sinclair E. Lewis, M.Div.D.D, Methodist Pastor

"This is an outstanding resource for women and men who have to deal with the diagnosis of breast cancer...It maintains the reader's interest throughout. I will certainly recommend this to patient's and support partners." --Maurice Nahabedian, MD, FACS, Director for Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institution

"This book needs to be available when the word cancer is first spoken. It helped me to know that my partner's reactions where normal... and so were my responses." --Rev. Sinclair E. Lewis, M.Div.D.D, Methodist Pastor

Edition details

• Publisher: EduCare Inc.
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1886665133
• ISBN 13: 9781886665132
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 176