Product of a collaboration among members of the Behavioral Cooperative Oncology Group of the Mary Margaret Walther Program for Cancer Care Research. Each chapter of this book includes summaries of research on cancer-related behavioral interventions, discussions of the studies summarized, and suggestions for future research.
This workbook, along with its companion volume ""Stress Management Intervention for Women With Breast Cancer"", provides a complete clinical framework for health professionals who wish to offer group psychosocial support to breast cancer patients.
Included with this title is a free copy of the ""Stress Management and Relaxation Training: Therapist's Manual"". Together, these two books provide a complete clinical framework for health professionals who wish to offer group psychosocial support to breast cancer patients.
Containing information about the group therapy process, this title discusses the various experiences of breast cancer patients and supplies tools that both relatively new and seasoned therapists can rely upon when beginning new groups.
Developed by clinical nurse experts, this book provides information on the care of men with prostate cancer. It offers an understanding of symptoms, diagnostic methods, treatment options, and psycho-social effects of this disease. It focuses on quality of life, and the nurses' role in improving this through teaching patients and their families.
Since the publication of the first edition of The Medical Care of Terminally Ill Patients, the field of palliative care has progressed significantly, both socially and scientifically. In this new edition, Dr. Robert Enck reviews the results of clinical studies devoted to the care of dying patients. Special attention is given to pain management, ......
Exploring the creation and development of the National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC), this title shows how many of its key leaders were mobilized by their own traumatic experiences with the disease and its treatments.
Is it possible, the author asks, that bacteria can contribute to the many other known causes of cancer? In this book, he takes us into the world of alternative cancer researchers, and examines their claims - that bacterial vaccines have led to some dramatic cases of long-term cancer remission.
Documents the work of alternative cancer researchers--which, the author charges, has been ignored or suppressed by the medical establishment--on a possible link between bacteria and cancer and on alternative treatments for the disease. UP.
