The Everything Health Guide to Living with Breast Cancer: An accessible and comprehensive resource for women
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- Title
- The Everything Health Guide to Living with Breast Cancer: An accessible and comprehensive resource for women
- Author
- Lucia Giuggio Carvalho
- Publisher
- Everything
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1598699210
- ISBN 13
- 9781598699210
The diagnosis of breast cancer challenges a woman’s sense of self, her body image, and ultimately her own mortality. In this health guide, breast cancer survivor and nurse Lucia Giuggio Carvalho provides a basic overview of breast cancer, its biology, psychology, and treatment options. This comprehensive approach to facing breast cancer covers:
The breast cancer journey is not about doing everything right for the right outcome. This book shows you the importance of living life to the fullest in each stage of breast cancer treatment and to find from within yourself the strength, courage, and spirit to survive it.
- Physical changes that occur with treatment, such as hair loss, early menopause, fatigue, sexuality, and weight in/loss
- Treatment options, including surgery, chemotherapy, clinical trials, radiation, hormonal therapies, and reconstructive surgery
- Support systems, medical insurance coverage, and financial onsiderations
- Complimentary alternative medicine choices, and more
The breast cancer journey is not about doing everything right for the right outcome. This book shows you the importance of living life to the fullest in each stage of breast cancer treatment and to find from within yourself the strength, courage, and spirit to survive it.
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About the Author
Lucia Giuggio Carvalho (Longmeadow, MA) was diagnosed with breast cancer sixteen years ago, and is actively and joyfully participating in life. She has twenty-five years of healthcare experience. A nurse with a master's in community health nursing, she is currently the Director of Case Management for the Jewish Geriatric Services. She has been a longtime volunteer for the American Cancer Society, a director for a local hospice, and is the recipient of several community awards, including the Women of Distinction Award from the Girl Scouts. Carvalho coauthored The Journey: A Personal Journal for Those Living with Breast Cancer. In 1994 she founded the Rays of Hope Walk Towards the Cure of Breast Cancer, which has raised more than $6.5 million and supports local women and their families as well as research.
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