Psychosocial Oncology recommended books
Most of these helpful books are available in your local library or bookstore:
- Cancer is a Word Not a Sentence by Dr. Robert Buckman
- The Essential Cancer Treatment Nutrition Guide and Cookbook by Jean
Lamantia - The Healing Journey: Overcoming the Crisis of Cancer. Alastair J Cunningham. 2010.
- The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times by Pema
Chodron - When a Parent is Sick: Helping Parents Explain Serious Illness to Children.
Joan Hamilton, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Cancer Care, QEII, Halifax. - Men Cancer Sex. Anne Katz. 2010. Oncology Nursing Society.
- Women Cancer Sex. Anne Katz. 2009. Oncology Nursing Society.
- Life after Cancer. A guide for cancer survivors. Canadian Cancer Society, 2008. Visit the CCS website: www.cancer.ca or call 1-888-939-3333.
- Life After Cancer Treatment. Facing Forward Series. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. 2004.
- Living Well after Cancer. A guide for cancer survivors, their families and friends. The Cancer Council New South Wales, February, 2010.
- Picking Up the Pieces. Moving Forward after Surviving Cancer. Sherri Magee and
Kathy Scalzo. Raincoast Books, Rutgers University Press. 2007. - After You Ring the Bell…10 Challenges for Cancer Survivor. Anne Katz. Oncology
Nursing Society. 2012. - When someone You Love Has Completed Cancer Treatment. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. May, 2010.
- Beyond Surviving Cancer and Your Spiritual Journey. David Maginley. Tristan Press. May 2017.
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