Anne Katz

Prostate Cancer and the Man You Love

Supporting and Caring for Your Partner

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Katz provides spouses and partners of men with prostate cancer with a comprehensive but reader friendly overview of what they need to know to support the man they love as he goes through the cancer journey. From diagnosis to death, the book deals sensitively with multiple topics to help spouses/partners in their roles as mates and caregivers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781442214521
• ISBN-10: 144221452X
• Artikelnr.: 35085702

Autorenporträt

Anne Katz, RN, PhD, is the author of four books on cancer and related illnesses, including Surviving After Cancer: Living the New Normal. She is also a sexuality counselor at CancerCare Manitoba and adjunct professor with the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction 2: What Do We Do?
Confronting the Challenges of Diagnosis 3: Is He the Right One?
Choosing a Doctor and Treatment 4: Waiting It Out
Active Surveillance 5: Get It Out!
Opting for Surgery 6: What about the Non
Invasive Route?
Radiation Therapy 7: Shall We Try This?
New and experimental treatments 8: What Does this Mean?
Cancer Recurrence 9: How Will He Feel?
Androgen Deprivation Therapy 10: Will This Improve My Chances?
Enrolling in Clinical Trials 11: Let's Talk About It!
Communication 12: One of the Guys
Joining a Support Group 13: It all went wrong
end of life care 14: Don't Worry About Me!
Self
care Bibliography