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The Breast Cancer Book: A Personal Guide to Help You Through it and Beyond |  | Authors: Val Sampson, Debbie Fenlon
Publisher: Vermilion
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 10429
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0091884535
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
EAN: 9780091884536
ASIN: 0091884535
Publication Date: September 12, 2002
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 Breast cancer and beyond! September 19, 2000
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is a superb book. It really is a must for anyone who is dealing with their own diagnosis of breast cancer and for their friends and family.pI found the style warm and approachable without becoming sentimental and the medical sections were dealt with thoroughly and clearly, explaining serious concepts without trivialising or dumbing down.pThe book goes way beyond breast cancer in many places. The authors talk about hoping and coping, managing in a crisis, dealing with the people around you (including an excellent section on talking to your children), strategies for when you need cheering up... all of which are relevant in everyone's life at some time.pWhat particularly impressed me was the combination of subjects, from the practical to the physical to the psychological. To find all these resources gathered in one place is fantastic.pA friend gave me this book to read and I'm back to buy my own copy now!
Thank you! November 4, 2003
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This has not been my best year. Two operations for breast cancer and not enough information. I discovered this book through Amazon .co.uk and immediately ordered it. I have found it to be such a help and actually enjoyed reading it at a time when I found it difficult to put everything together for myself.brMy thanks to Val and Debbie for my new "bible".
This book helped me through my treatment January 3, 2008
Isabella B (York)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Just finished my radiotherapy and I've read and re-read this book. It's reassuring, reliable and comprehensive - the sort of book you are always dipping in and out of. I've recently read The Secret History of a Woman Patient and I recommend this too because it complements The Breast Cancer Book. It's Janet Rhys Dent's gripping personal account of learning how to be a patient and it reads like a story that keeps you turning the pages. It too is upbeat, just like The Breast Cancer Book.
The best book of its kind to be produced in Britain August 9, 2000
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
As a contributor to this book , I have to declare an interest in ensuring that it reaches as wide a readership as possible. But, the reason for wanting to see this happen is that it stands as arguably the best book of its kind to be produced in Britain.pPractical and sensitive, it documents Sampson's own experience with breast cancer in an unsentimental and yet thought ful way. It is written, as she herself says, as the kind of book she most needed, but wasn't available, when she was first dagnosed with breast cancer.pFenlon successfully de-mystifies the entire area of conventional treatment (among many of the cancer patients in my own practice, a sense of exclusion from their own treatment by the medical profession is often rated as the most distressing aspect of hospital care), while Sampson takes the reader through a quick but comprehensive tour of complementary approaches presently available, successfully avoiding the 'warm fuzzy' vagueness of some alternative 'healers'.pShe also avoids the all-too-prevalent New Age attitude that suggests that, if the patient can help alter her prognosis by the way she thinks and communicates with herself, she is somehow to blame for her condition in the first case.pThe result is a book of balance, insight and practical assistance. And, one which I am pleased and proud to recommend to all my clients, regardless of the particular cancer they face. May it help trigger what my own trainer and mentor, Dr Richard Bandler, creator of NLP, calls a 'healing fest'.
Not a victim in sight! October 9, 2000
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
How refreshing to find a book that simply refers to women with breast cancer rather than breast cancer victims, breast cancer patients or breast cancer sufferers.
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