In GWA they now profile the typical "cancer personality": how an individual's reaction to stress and other emotional factors can contribute to the onset and progress of cancer--and how positive expectations, self-awareness and self-care can contribute to survival. This book offers the same self-help techniques the Simontons' patients have used so successfully to reinforce usual medical treatment--techniques for learning positive attitudes, relaxation, visualization, goal setting, managing pain, exercise, and building an emotional support system.

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