Helping Your Mate Face Breast Cancer: Tips for Becoming an Effective Support Partner for the One You Love During the Breast Cancer Experience

This book is designed for mates of breast cancer patients to help them face the changes and challenges of meeting the vast support needs of the patient and themselves. The book provides guidance in the areas of:

*dealing with the emotional pain of a mate's diagnosis
*understanding how to help the patient cope
*talking with the children
*understanding breast cancer and treatment options
*dealing with insurance and financial issues
*what to do the night before and after surgery
*what to say about her scar and body image
*dealing with the side-effects of treatment
*protecting the sexual relationship
*monitoring her emotional recovery
*managing the fear of recurrence
*how to take care of your own needs
*and much more!

Judy C. Kneece, RN, OCN is a certified oncology nurse with a specialty in breast cancer and a Mammacare specialist. She presently serves hospitals and breast health centers as an international Breast Health Consultant in the educational and psychosocial needs of breast cancer patients and their families. She implements a program of comprehensive education, training nurses to fill the breast health education role and setting up a complete program of support for the entire family unit. Judy also trains nurses, physicians and mammography technologists in the management of breast disease.

Judy is the author of Your Breast Cancer Treatment Handbook, a patient's guide through the breast cancer experience. She is also the author of Finding a Lump In Your Breast-Where To Go..What To Do, Solving The Mystery of Breast Pain and Solving The Mystery of Breast Discharge. Judy has developed a computer program featuring 236 patient teaching sheets on breast health for clinics, hospitals and physicians' offices.

She presently serves as Secretary for the National Consortium of Breast Centers and as Managing editor for their national newsletter, The Breast Center Bulletin. She has published over 30 national articles on breast health, and is a contributing editor for several national magazines on breast health and breast care.

Judy speaks widely on the topic of breast cancer education and triumphant survivorship as a keynote and conference speaker.