Cancer Talk: Voices of Hope and Endurance from "The Group Room," the World's Largest Cancer Support Group (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780767903257)

For the first time, Cancer Talk provides a support group in a book.

Research shows that cancer patients who attend support groups can survive longer and lead fuller lives than patients receiving medical treatment alone. Cancer Talk, based on "The Group Room(R)," the nation's only talk-radio cancer support show, brings hope, information, and inspiration to everyone affected by cancer. Show host Selma Schimmel, a cancer advocate and longtime survivor, has gathered the voices of cancer patients and survivors, family and friends, physicians, therapists, and other healthcare professionals to create an invaluable guide to help you:

Deal with the wide range of emotions a cancer diagnosis provokes
Cope with relationships, intimacy, and physical changes
Optimize the doctor-patient relationship and navigate treatment options
Handle the side effects of treatment
Understand legal, workplace, and insurance issues
Live with and beyond cancer

Anyone whose life has been touched by cancer will find new support from the intimate and empowering voices of the only real experts out there--the people who live with cancer.

Author: Selma R. Schimmel
ISBN-10: 0767903250
ISBN-13: 9780767903257
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Language: English
Published: 05/18/1999
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/19/1999 pg. 68
Library Journal 05/01/1999 pg. 104
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/1999 pg. 621
Ingram Advance 06/01/1999 pg. 58
Booklist 05/15/1999 pg. 1655