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Author Spingarn, Natalie Davis.

Title The new cancer survivors : living with grace, fighting with spirit / Natalie Davis Spingarn
Published Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 241 pages)
Contents Hanging In There -- The Bad News -- Talking and Hoping -- Being Sick: The Short Run -- A New Subculture: The New Survivors -- Tools and Crutches -- Complementary and Alternative Therapies -- Significant Others: A Part of the Main -- The Media and the Message: Cancer as Metaphor -- Work: The Passion of Labor -- Money -- The Big Picture: A Search for Meaning -- The Cancer Survivors' Bill of Rights
Summary "Lively and empathetic, The New Cancer Survivors will appeal to persons with cancer - who, thanks to modern medical science, are "hanging in there with illnesses that once evoked only submission or surrender"--As well as to their families, friends, and caregivers. Throughout, the author shines a bright light on the cancer experience, providing good reason to be hopeful as well as insight into how to respond when things don't go so well
Because she has suffered recurrences of cancer, she can compare treatment in the seventies (week-long hospital stays, for example, and extensive surgery and chemotherapy) with treatment in the nineties ("drive-through" precision surgery, genetic testing, the integration of some "complementary" therapies into mainstream medicine) and weigh the differences. The New Cancer Survivors digs deep for the truth and serves it up with humor and attitude - offering a wealth of information, comfort, and inspiration."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Cancer -- Popular works.
Cancer -- Patients.
Self-help groups.
Neoplasms -- psychology
Survivors -- psychology
Self-Help Groups
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Cancer.
Self-help groups
Cancer
Cancer -- Patients
Genre/Form Popular works
Form Electronic book
LC no. 99025087
ISBN 0801870208
9780801870200