The Breast Cancer Companion: A Guide For The Newly Diagnosed

Guidance, organization, and timely ÏinsiderÓ tips to help your breast cancer treatment and recovery go as smoothly and successfully as possible.

Filled with the best-of-the-best advice from the available research, leading doctors, breast cancer survivors, and Nancy SokolowskiÌs 30 years as one of the countryÌs most respected and sought after breast health specialists, The Breast Cancer Companion is a step-by-step guide to assist you in mounting a smart, organized, and ultimately successful battle with breast cancer.

Helping you stay well-organized and well-informed, this essential companion includes health information, tips, and resources, plus provides ample space and encouragement to record questions, thoughts and feelings, doctor's appointments, medications, and contact information for the oncology team and others.

YouÌll find:

• A calendar to plan and manage your schedule
• A directory to organize important contacts
• Questions to ask your medical team
• Tips and advice from breast cancer survivors
• Ample space to reflect on your experience
• A list of resources and breast cancer-related organizations

Nancy Sokolowski, RN, OCN is a nationally recognized breast health specialist, with a 30-year career at Norwalk Hospital (a teaching affiliate of Yale University School of Medicine.)

Valerie Rossi is co-author of the critically acclaimed My Diabetes Workbook: The Essential Planner and Organizer for People with Type 2 Diabetes, which was awarded the "favorably reviewed seal" by the American Association of Diabetes Educators and was a 2006 Benjamin Franklin award finalist in the health category.