PRDHS Hospice Lending Library
CANCER
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When Someone you love has Cancer
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When someone you love has cancer, the emotional stress can seem overwhelming. At the same time, you may become your loved one's caregiver, taking on many new responsibilities. Based on her own experience, Pomeroy guides you through this trying time with comforting advice on coping with both emotional stress and practical concerns. This reassuring guide offer compassionate advice on helping loved one deal with illness in their won way, facing your won emotions, and discussing the subject with children - as well as practical advice on filing insurance claims, getting help from organizations, and caring for your loved one at home. These personal insights can help you get through this time of crisis, by showing you how to provide both the understanding and the care your loved one needs.
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When Someone you Love has Cancer
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If someone you love has been diagnosed with cancer, you, the caregiver, need straightforward, compassionate advice. This Dell Caregiving Guide provides all the information you need during the days ahead, including the latest medical facts from health care professionals - and invaluable insider's tips from other caregivers. It also helps you care for yourself so that you stay strong, healthy and positive during this challenging time.
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Living with Advanced Cancer
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This booklet is for people who have been diagnosed with advanced cancer and their caregivers. It offers practical information and support to help you get started in caring for yourself and for each other as you learn to live with advanced cancer. Physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs are described in this booklet. You may relate to some of the needs described here, but everyone's experience is unique.
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Afraid to Ask - A Book about Cancer
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Almost 30% of us will develop a cancer some time in our lives and over 50% of us will have to deal with cancer in our immediate family. Cancer creates stress for the whole family. Many first come face to face with this disease during childhood or adolescence. This book gives these young people the answers they will need to understand the biology of the disease and the emotional problems it entails.
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CANCER is a word, not a sentence
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This book is a practical guide written for people who have just been diagnosed with cancer, to help them make sense out of what happens next. Dr Buckman describes everything that follows the diagnosis - including staging, tests, treatment, and follow-up. His six-step plan outlines the options, suggests the right questions to ask, and highlights the decisions that have to be made. He focuses on daily life: how to talk to your spouse or your children, how to break the news to your friends, how to communicate with you medical team. There's even a section addressed to family and friends who "just don't know what to say".
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Cancer in the Young - A Sense of Hope
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This book has honest answers, facts and stores about real cancer patients. Someone you know, someone in your family, may be fighting a form of this disease. Find out in this book what they are facing.