Book Recommendations
After Breast Cancer by Sara Liyanage
ISBN: 9781399808019
This is a wonderfully helpful, sensible guide for anyone navigating the challenges of life after breast cancer treatment. -- Victoria Derbyshire
Sara has done it again. This brilliant book shows you how to cope with the physical, mental and emotional impact of an early breast cancer diagnosis. A must-read for you and your family. -- Dr Liz O'Riordan
A brilliant and practical book for those navigating life after primary breast cancer. -- Dr Anisha Patel
This great book gives a wonderfully comprehensive range of practical and emotional strategies to help you cope when the treatment ends - Sara holds your hand into the next stage of your life, after breast cancer. -- Dr Zoe Williams
A cancer diagnosis leaves you irrevocably changed. Whatever the outcome, life will be different and there is no going back. Sara recognises this - not least through her own lived experience - and After Breast Cancer is her offering to all those facing this challenge.
This is a compassionate guide - meticulously researched and sensitively written - for anyone wondering how best to navigate life after the Big C. A perfect mixture of hope, realism and practical tips, After Breast Cancer will be a valuable resource for so many.
-- Dr Hannah Short, Co-author of 'The Complete Guide to POI and Early Menopause''
This book is honest and open and full of practical advice, coping mechanisms and tools. It is an essential resource for those embarking on life after cancer and we highly recommend it. Well done Sara and everyone involved in creating this much-needed book. -- Stephanie Davies, founder of Life After Cancer, ICF trained coach and NLP practitioner.
Coping with Breast Cancer by Sarah Swan
ISBN: 9781914110221
In this book, a clinical psychologist who is also a breast cancer survivor describes the cancer journey and adds evidence-based psychological techniques to help us understand, explore and deal with the various emotions we might experience, written in a way that that you can select the approach that best fits with your personal experience and priorities. Trisha Greenhalgh, Doctor and Breast Cancer Survivor, Oxford UK
Eat to Starve Cancer by Jessica C. James
ISBN: 9798853935310
Unlock the Power of Nutrition in the Fight Against Cancer
Are you or someone you know fighting a brave battle against cancer and seeking ways to strengthen your body's defenses and support your treatment journey? Look no further than "EAT TO Starve Cancer," an essential guide to a health-boosting diet that can play a pivotal role in nourishing your body, promoting recovery, and starving cancer of its strength.
Unleashing the Healing Power of Nutrition:
"EAT TO Starve Cancer" is a comprehensive and empowering resource that harnesses the latest scientific research and expert knowledge to shed light on the crucial connection between nutrition and cancer treatment. Through a carefully crafted diet, you can take proactive steps to bolster your body's natural defenses and enhance the effectiveness of your treatment.
What the F*ck Just Happened by Jen Rozenbaum
ISBN: 9781948604154
Struggling to get back to normal life after breast cancer? You were diagnosed with breast cancer and beat it. Congrats! You counted down until the day you could put the journey behind you and return to your life as you knew it before cancer. That day is here and yet you are still asking yourself, "When will things be normal again?".
If you have been feeling like you are struggling emotionally, physically and spiritually in your post cancer life, you are not alone. Here's the good news; You have a second chance at life and you aren't going to let it slip you by. This book is for breast cancer survivors who are truly ready to reconstruct their life and feel normal once again.
Author and breast cancer survivor Jen Rozenbaum will teach you her methods to help you: Finally feel normal again after cancer, get rid of the numbness and enjoy life again, stop living in fear of the cancer returning, feel sexy and feminine again. Grab your copy now and get started on the path to discover and live a normal life again.
Ticking Off Breast Cancer by Sara Liyanage
ISBN: 9781999300692
‘Ticking Off Breast Cancer is a candid, thoughtful account of the way Sara dealt with a breast cancer diagnosis. She is one impressive woman.' -- Victoria Derbyshire.
Previously an expert multi-tasker in her capacity as a busy, married, forty-two-year-old mother of two, and part time lawyer commuting into London, Sara managed her life by to-do list after to-do list. However, when breast cancer appeared on her list, Sara’s life was thrown upside down and she had to make a few changes. With the combination of medical appointments, scans, and harsh treatment, Sara’s dignity, grace and composure all flew out the window, but she did retain the ability to get herself organised and make a few lists to help her through the treatment. Armed with a multitude of shopping lists, to-do lists and checklists, she made it through eighteen months of gruelling cancer treatment to the other side, where, for the past couple of years, she’s been basking in the glow of hair regrowth, new eyebrows and a renewed love for life.
Ticking Off Breast Cancer is a chronological narrative of Sara’s life from the day of her diagnosis and throughout her treatment. It follows Sara as she deals with the physical, emotional and mental challenges thrown at her by cancer and provides an honest insight into the treatment given to a breast cancer patient together with the impact that this has on someone s life. By sharing many of her to-do lists in the form of checklists at the end of each chapter, Ticking Off Breast Cancer provides thoughtful, helpful advice for every step of the way. Whether read as a companion for someone going through cancer treatment themselves, or as a guide for someone with a loved one or friend going through cancer treatment, Ticking Off Breast Cancer provides support and encouragement throughout. The book accompanies Sara’s website of the same name, www.tickingoffbreastcancer.com, which provides practical help and support for those going through breast cancer treatment.
Stronger Than Before: Take Charge of Your Healing to Survive and Thrive with Breast Cancer
by Alsion Porter
ISBN: 9781788171601
Stronger Than Before is the book Alison Porter went looking for when she first learned she had breast cancer. It's a practical handbook to guide you - and your friends and family - through every stage of the illness, from early diagnosis to treatment choices, and ultimately to a life beyond cancer.
In this book, you'll discover:
· the different types of breast cancer, what to ask your doctor and how to make the choices that are right for you
· self-help techniques on every level - physical, emotional, mental and spiritual - to support you through treatment and recovery
· how to view your illness as a catalyst for post-traumatic growth, and move on with your life with greater meaning and purpose
· your options for reconstruction and how to maintain a cancer-preventative lifestyle
· advice for friends and family, so they can be truly helpful in how they offer you support
Containing invaluable information, guidance and tips, as well as tools and techniques, this book will help you to emerge from this life-changing experience more healthy and purposeful, and stronger than before.
The Complete Guide to Breast Cancer: How to Feel Empowered and Take Control
by Professor Trisha Greenhalgh and Dr Liz O’Riordan
ISBN: 9781785041877
Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, an academic GP, and Dr Liz O’Riordan, a Consultant Breast Cancer Surgeon, are not only outstanding doctors, but they have also experienced breast cancer first-hand.
The Complete Guide to Breast Cancer brings together all the knowledge they have gathered as patients and as doctors to give you and your family a trusted, thorough and up-to-date source of information. Designed to empower you during your breast cancer treatment, it covers:
-Simple explanations of every breast cancer treatment
-Coping with the emotional burden of breast cancer
-Frank advice about sex and relationships
-Staying healthy during and after treatment
-Dealing with the fear of recurrence
-Living with secondary breast cancer
Packed full of all the things the authors wished they’d known when they were diagnosed, and tips on how to cope with surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and beyond, this is the only book you need to read to guide you through your breast cancer diagnosis.
Agnes, Bea, Cancer & Me
by Helen Bullen
ISBN: 9781739256906
Day One Didn’t Seem Possible . . .
. . . but the evidence stopped her cold. How could she have breast cancer?
Retired osteopath Helen Bullen – now an entrepreneur and business mentor, who has set up an award-winning multi-healthcare clinic – sat in the doctor’s office, stunned. She wasn’t ready to be a patient when she got the diagnosis. “You have stage 3 triple negative breast cancer.”
This is her true story.
Written as a journal, she shares her struggles, her fears, her anger. Day by day, Helen’s attitude changed from disbelief to commitment. For six months she would undergo chemotherapy and stay strong through each weekly dose. This is more than a personal story. It’s a hard look at the truths she faces along the way.
Are you ready to be inspired?
You’ll love this deeply personal look at surviving cancer because Helen shows us that mental attitude is the best weapon we have to fight the unthinkable. Settle down with a box of tissues for a deeply moving read, and get to know Agnes, Bea and Helen. But be prepared to laugh out loud too.
A Survivor’s Guide to Triple Negative Breast Cancer
by Michelle Solak-Edwards
ISBN: 9781739632816
Exploring the emotional and medical aspects and everything the Author wish she had known when first diagnosed, the book is designed to help anybody with a primary Triple Negative Breast Cancer. The book takes the reader from diagnosis, through to treatment and beyond in an easy to read format, broken down into sections with illustrations and photographs.
Diagnosis:
The shock of finding out you have breast cancer, and then being told it's Triple Negative, can be confusing and worrying. You may be bombarded with information, but also have a long list of questions. Taking the stress out of finding answers, the book starts by demystifying breast cancer, how it begins, understanding Triple Negative, and why it's different to other types of breast cancer. With this knowledge, it will help to understand your own diagnosis, and hopefully, you'll feel better informed for any meetings with your oncologist or surgeon.
Treatment:
What should you expect from surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy? The book guides you from the point of diagnosis, helping you to prepare, and understand the process including typical timelines and treatments. Each section is broken down, so you know what to expect and when. Simply understanding what's to come, can help take the fear out of the unknown. Read real-life stories from Triple Negative breast cancer patients who discuss their treatment, surgery, what they had, and why.
Recovery & Beyond:
Treatment has finished and it's the day you've waited for, but what now? How long is recovery and what should you expect? As you emerge out of the hospital bubble, you enter the most challenging time because life can feel different. You may feel anxious and apprehensive, scared that cancer may come back. The book discusses what you might expect, the ongoing aches and pains that cause concern and what you can do to help yourself. Your future may be a little different, but there's no reason why Triple Negative can't be a part of your past.
The book contains treatment regimes specifically for the UK, but all other information is relevant to anybody with a Triple Negative Breast Cancer worldwide.
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