The Cancer Guide: How to Nurture Wellbeing Through and Beyond a Cancer Diagnosis

by Anne-Marie O'Dwyer

The Cancer Guide is a definitive and inspirational book designed to help patients, partners, family and work colleagues navigate the trials and difficulties associated with cancer and its treatment.

With over forty years worth of experience to her name, O'Dwyer writes about cancer with humanity and clarity, helping to combat the myths and misinformation surrounding the disease in an age of information overload.

Adopting an integrated biological and psychological perspective, O'Dwyer highlights the person at the heart of every treatment, providing helpful advice and shared experiences that are able to destigmatize the shame, fear and denial faced by those affected by cancer.

The Cancer Guide is an empowering and informative book for all those whose lives and loved ones have been touched by cancer.

196 pages, Hardcover

Published November 5, 2024

Reviews

[Caroline Croezen]

Very well written, loved the patient experience stories and Anne Marie's practical tips to patients. The last chapter about dying I read with a huge lump in my throat. Loved the section on cancer survivorship and how that can be a difficult period for patients too.

[Helena Stone]

As the subtitle suggests, this book focusses on the mental issues associated with a Cancer diagnosis rather than the physical symptoms and treatment options. And it does a wonderful job explaining things, often with the aid of the experiences of cancer patients.

My only ‘complaint’ is that there is nothing in the book for people who, like me, have been diagnosed with incurable cancer and are on a journey towards living with cancer. Still, I know that what I’ve read will help me face whatever the future may throw my way and that I will return to (parts of) this book often.