Description
Book SynopsisThis practical, science-based book focuses on helping partners, family, and friends understand breast cancer. It guides them in how to provide the best emotional and practical support when helping someone with breast cancer to cope, recover, and thrive, while maintaining their own physical and psychological health.
The authors translate psychological evidence into concrete, practical advice for caregivers, validated through their first-hand experience. It also suggests ways to help someone with breast cancer make the best decisions in consultation with oncology professionals. The authors draw on well-established psychological principles relevant to social attitudes, how decisions are made, good communication skills, empathy, and how to better understand the ideas and worries experienced by women who have, or may have, breast cancer and those close to them. Each chapter includes How you can Help' sections that give specific and concrete suggestions, as well as a chapter summary
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
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- How to Help Someone Thrive with Breast Cancer: An Introduction to This Guide
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- Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment, and Providers: An Introduction and Overview
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- Helping Her Make Testing and Treatment Decisions
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- Detecting, Diagnosing, and Monitoring Breast Cancer
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- Biopsies
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- Lumpectomies and Breast-Sparing Surgery
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- Chemotherapy
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- Radiation Therapy
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- Mastectomies
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- Breast Reconstruction
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- Telling Family and Friends: Disclosure and Privacy
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- Supporting the Children and Children as Support
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- Metastatic Breast Cancer and End of Life
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- Taking Care of You
Appendix: ASCO Treatment Summary and Survivorship Care Plan
Index
