The number one response to a cancer diagnosis is abject fear. No one wants to suffer. We never want to feel disempowered, or worse, helpless. In What To Do After "I'm sorry, it's cancer." two-time survivor Wanda St. Hilaire provides clear, easy-to-read information that you will not get at your local cancer center. You'll learn how best to navigate your cancer journey and make empowered, informed decisions. St. Hilaire's mission is to greatly reduce suffering and ensure you maintain a high quality of life through and well beyond cancer. You'll discover how to uncover imbalances that can be balanced for healing. From there, you'll be guided in the creation of a unique and personalized wellness plan that will help you on toward health and happiness. Cancer can be overcome in a harmonious, life-affirming manner conducive to wellbeing. Find out how in What To Do After "I'm sorry, it's cancer." What you will find in the book: How to get the best care and advice. How to make informed, empowered decisions. Uncover the mystery of the burning question: why me, why now? How to best overcome illness through a 'whole-person' approach. How to have a high quality of life with minimal "collateral damage." Anecdotal stories and wisdom with an underlying theme: Impossible things happen every day. Visit www.imsorryitscancer.com to find out how to get your free downloadable Self-Care and Wellness Planner e-book. What To Do After "I'm sorry, it's cancer." is a compelling reminder that impossible things happen every day.

A self-help guide to creating and maintaining the optimal medical, physical, emotional and spiritual support system for the journey through cancer.

Have you ever struggled to find the right words to say to a friend who has just been diagnosed with cancer? Do you wonder which acts of kindness she would appreciate the most as she endures chemotherapy or a mastectomy? Loving Your Friend Through Cancer provides an in-depth look at what it feels like to have cancer and how friends can help. Marissa Henley's experience as a cancer survivor and her detailed advice will equip you to love and serve your friend through her illness. In this book, you'll learn: - Why you should never say, "Let me know how I can help." - Practical suggestions for supporting your friend immediately after diagnosis, throughout treatment, and beyond. - How to move beyond "I'm sorry" and provide the encouragement she needs. - Specific ways to pray for her and minister to her spiritually. Whether you're a close friend providing daily support or an acquaintance who wants to avoid saying the wrong thing, this book will help you support your friend with confidence and compassion.

An oncology chaplain shares stories from her own battle with breast cancer in this frank, often hilarious memoir reminiscent of the works of Nora Ephron For more than two decades, author Debra Jarvis has counseled cancer patients in her work as a chaplain, working with them from the point of diagnosis through their treatment and recovery. Then, in an ironic twist, she herself was diagnosed with Stage II breast cancer. It’s Not About the Hair is Jarvis’ warm and wise account of her own journey as a cancer patient, having already guided so many others through the same battle. With humor, candor, and an indomitable spirit, Jarvis opens a rare window into the interwoven world of medical technology and procedure, human vulnerability and strength, and the spiritual issues that converge in the experience of living through illness and living through life.

Synopsis Are you or is someone you love facing a cancer diagnosis in the prime of life? You’re not alone. The likelihood of developing cancer in one’s lifetime is 1 in 2 for males and 1 in 3 for females, and the numbers are rising. A cancer diagnosis at any age is traumatic, but young to middle-aged adults who are often raising or planning for children, establishing careers, and getting on their financial feet face unique challenges. When cancer strikes, this group can become overwhelmed by navigating treatment options, mounting debt from medical bills, threats to fertility, and the necessity of facing one’s mortality. It can become a mental battle ground. In Not Now, Cancer, I’m Busy, Melissa Trevathan-Minnis and Deanne Meeks Brown offer research, resources, and support to help you overcome the psychological trauma of cancer. Sharing their own personal stories, along with insights from other young cancer survivors, these two mental health professionals guide you through the rollercoaster of emotions from diagnosis and treatment to transitioning back to life post-treatment. While the challenges of cancer survivorship are many, so are the coping strategies available to help promote recovery and well-being. Not Now, Cancer, I’m Busy, addresses cancer through the lens of mental health and offers strategies to not only cope with the challenges of cancer, but to build a life full of meaning and intention despite them. From developing a fighting spirit and learning how to slow down, to breaking down barriers to mental health and spiritual growth, this book will help you tap into your personal strengths and resilience. Although a cancer diagnosis in early and midlife can be earth-shattering, the trauma of cancer can actually leave you stronger and better equipped-if you let it. WORDS OF PRAISE OMG! This is a fabulous book--the one everyone dealing with cancer has been waiting for! While the book is specifically addressed to YMAs (Young and Middle Adults) it is an exhaustive compendium of experience, issues, and directions for all those touched in any way by cancer—victims, survivors, family, friends and the rest of us who care in one way or another. From diagnosis to survivorship or to disability and death Melissa and Deanne offer amazingly comprehensive research, suggestions, and enlightenment at every step of the journey they take us on. Most interesting to me as a psychologist-psychoanalyst and survivor of cancer at age 21 are the sections on post-traumatic growth, developing a personal narrative, and the progression from surviving to thriving. Not Now, Cancer is an absolute triumph by two people who artfully weave their personal thriving experiences of themselves and of their families and friends with a wealth of incredible details of their cancer experiences that are equally well applicable to people of all ages who are faced with life-threatening diagnoses or circumstances. Congratulations Melissa and Deanne and thanks. --Lawrence Hedges, PhD, PsyD, ABPP, Director, the Listening Perspectives Study Center

My memoir follows the fourteen month journey I took with my wife Dava of 40 years from the moment we heard the diagnosis through how we coped with losing her. My words interspersed with her journal entries. The memoir would appeal to any of the new 57,000 a year pancreas cancer diagnosis each year and those related to them.

A woman writes of her struggle with breast cancer and how the strength of her family pulled her through.