Women’s Cancers: Pathways to Healing: A Patient’s Guide to Dealing with Cancer and Abnormal Smears

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Women's Cancers: Pathway to Healing - A Patient’s Guide to Dealing Ovarian and Breast Cancer provides accurate information that combines both orthodox medical treatments, along with more complementary and esoteric therapies. Giving not only a valuable source of information and support to women with cancer, it also proves a useful resource for families and friends; helping them to understand the process of management and treatment. The book incorporates a useful and novel ‘4-cusp approach,’ which has proved very helpful to many women, both to themselves and also in allowing them to explain to their families where they are in the process. The ‘4-cusp approach’ is like a map for people with cancer.

Covering not only the medical, but also the emotional and psychological aspects of dealing with cancer, Pathways to Healing: A Patient’s Guide to Ovarian and Breast Cancer aims to help anyone struggling to come to terms with their own, or a loved one’s grief.

Richard Smith, MD, FRCOG, Consultant Gynecological Surgeon at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and Honorary Gynecologist at Royal Brompton Hospital, UK amongst many others.

Dr Giuseppe Del Priore, Gynecologist specialising in cancer treatment. He works at New York University School of Medicine in New York City, USA and has a long standing interest in doctor-patient communication. He has been a pioneer in the field of fertility sparing surgery.

Author(s): J. Richard Smith MD, FRCOG, Giuseppe Del Priore MD, MPH (auth.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
Year: 2009

Language: English
Pages: 138
Tags: Popular Science in Medicine and Health; General Practice / Family Medicine; Oncology; Gynecology

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
General Introduction....Pages 3-5
Anatomy Overview....Pages 7-9
The 4-cusp Approach to Cancer Care....Pages 11-31
General Concepts of Surgical Management....Pages 33-34
Sex, Cancer, and Surgery....Pages 35-36
Cervical Cancer and Precancer (Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia)....Pages 39-53
Ovarian Cancer (Including Cancer of the Fallopian Tube)....Pages 55-64
Endometrial Cancer....Pages 65-75
Vulval Cancer....Pages 77-83
Breast Cancer....Pages 85-96
Choriocarcinoma: Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia....Pages 97-100
General Concepts of Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy....Pages 103-106
Pain Management....Pages 107-112
Complementary Therapies....Pages 113-122
Bereavement/Grief....Pages 123-124
Spiritual Approaches to Living with Cancer....Pages 125-128
Conclusion....Pages 129-129
Back Matter....Pages 131-138