After Cancer: A Guide to Your New Life

by Wendy Schlessel Harpham

As anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer knows, surviving cancer is more than just killing cancer cells and getting through treatment. Patients must deal with the emotional, social, spiritual, and financial fallout of a cancer diagnosis. By helping survivors understand that they can't go back to where they were before cancer, Dr. Wendy Harpham liberates them to move forward to a different, "new normal." In a reader-friendly, question-and-answer format, Dr. Harpham (herself a cancer survivor) addresses a wide range of issues. Among them are understanding the medicine of reevaluation, follow-up, and prevention after treatment; dealing with the most common physical aftereffects of treatment; learning how to make decisions about work and school; relating to friends and family; helping children deal with parents' cancer; and coping with the practicalities of living wills and insurance.

372 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[Nina]

One of the best after treatment books I've read. Practical information. Addresses a wide range of emotional issues

[Lorri]

When you are undergoing treatment for cancer you always think about how great life will be when you are done with treatment. Then when it happens you feel lost and alone. This book is helpful to cancer survivors as they try to put their lives back together. Life is never the same after cancer but it is still wonderful.