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Coping with Cancer Stress

With an Introduction by Avery D. Weissman (Harvard Medical School, Boston)

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  • © 1986

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  1. Basil A. Stoll

    1. St. Thomas’ Hospital and Royal Free Hospital, London, UK

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Avery D. Weisman
      Pages 1-5

  3. Impact of cancer on the Patient

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Faith only belongs in Churches?

      • Basil A. Stoll
      Pages 9-20

    3. Impact of Diagnosis on the Patient

      • T. J. Priestman
      Pages 21-28

    4. Coping with Cancer Surgery

      • S. J. Leinster
      Pages 29-37

    5. Coping with Cytotoxic Therapy

      • Alan Coates
      Pages 39-44

    6. Coping with Radiation Therapy

      • Elisabeth Whipp
      Pages 45-51

    7. Depression in Cancer Patients

      • Jennifer Hughes
      Pages 53-62

    8. Denial in Cancer Patients

      • Jennifer Hughes
      Pages 63-69

    9. Sex and the Cancer Patient

      • Leslie R. Schover
      Pages 71-80

  4. Support of the Cancer Patient

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Quality of Survival — Can we Measure it? Can we Influence it?

      • Thurstan B. Brewin
      Pages 83-93

    3. Types of Supportive Therapy

      • David R. Nerenz, Richard R. Love
      Pages 95-102

    4. Help Given by Fellow Patients

      • H. W. Van Den Borne, J. F. A. Pruyn, K. De Meij
      Pages 103-111

    5. Monitoring of Coping

      • Martin S. Lee
      Pages 113-121

    6. Results of Supportive Therapy

      • Maggie Watson
      Pages 123-129

    7. Psychological Self-Help by Cancer Patients

      • Alastair J. Cunningham
      Pages 131-142

    8. Caring for Cancer in the Young

      • Martin G. Mott
      Pages 143-147

    9. Caring for the Family

      • Kerry Bluglass
      Pages 149-154
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About this book

The emotional pressures on cancer patients and their families are increasing and traditional supports are decreasing. This book attempts to provide a readable, authoritative and balanced review of the emotional pressures and coping methods of cancer patients, and the help currently available to them. The special problems of children and terminal patients with cancer, and the role of the family in coping, are also examined. A balanced and critical assessment is made of defects in health organisation, training of personnel and attitudes to cancer patients in Western society. A similar assessment is made of the growing tendency to self help, mutual help and group activities for such patients. While each individual needs to select coping aids best suited to his or her own temperament, medical advisors need to make more time available for discussion of technical, emotional, social and sexual problems. The availability of a cancer-treating "team" makes this feasible. Chapters were invited from physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists and sociologists expert in this field, and they have responsed to the challenge of writing in non-technical language. This is so that readership can cross disciplinary boundaries and thus stimulate physicians, nurses, psychologists, sociologists, clergy and others, to satisfy some of the currently unmet needs of cancer patients. The reader may note a small amount of overlap between some chapters, permitted in order to maintain continuity and make each chapter complete in itself.

Reviews

`I am grateful to the editors for drawing my attention to this excellent book.'
`This book is a "must" for all those who are or will be involved with such patients, especially medical students and students nurses.'
Dr. M. Ratcliff, in Palliative Medicine, Vol. 3, 1989

Editors and Affiliations

  • St. Thomas’ Hospital and Royal Free Hospital, London, UK

    Basil A. Stoll

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Coping with Cancer Stress

  • Book Subtitle: With an Introduction by Avery D. Weissman (Harvard Medical School, Boston)

  • Editors: Basil A. Stoll

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4243-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht 1986

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89838-769-8Published: 31 October 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-89838-817-6Published: 31 March 1987

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-4243-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 192

  • Topics: Oncology

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