Talking Back to Cancer

UNCOVER HOPE, JOY, AND COMFORT AT ANY STAGE IN THE CANCER JOURNEY

Cancer can rock a person’s world. But whether you are just diagnosed, undergoing treatment, being monitored, or in remission—there is now help. In Talking Back to Cancer, Dr. Roger Granet shares medical expertise, poetry, and stories, drawing on four decades of experience as a psychiatrist helping people cope with the emotional side effects of cancer. Within these pages, readers will draw strength and discover a path toward:

• Finding hope, loving connections, and positivity even amidst fears and trepidation
• Understanding that the latest diagnostic advances and newer, user-friendly treatments now make the statement, “There is no better time to have cancer,” true
• Releasing any tendency to catastrophize or live under the sword of cancer
• Nurturing body, soul, and spirit

Roger Granet, M.D. is a consultant in Psychiatry at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is an attending psychiatrist at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center and Morristown Medical Center. Dr. Granet is the author and editor of over twenty books, including Surviving Cancer Emotionally: Learning How to Heal (John Wiley and Sons). He maintains private practices in New Jersey and New York.