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Guide for Cancer Supporters: Step-by-step ways to help a relative or frient fight cancer
Guide for Cancer Supporters Stepbystep ways to help a relative or frient fight cancer Author:Annette and Richard Bloch Guide for Cancer Supporters is more than the ideas of one person or family. Questionnaires were sent to numerous doctors, nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, facilitators of support groups, supporters of cancer patients and cancer patients seeking their input and suggestions. This is a compilation of the results of all those al... more »ong with the experiences of Richard Bloch, hwo was diagnosed as having terminal lung cancer in 1979 and given 90 days to live. After 2 years of strenuous treatments he was pronounced cured. In 1989, he was diagnosed with colon cancer and again endured a year of chemotherapy after surgery. He was supported through all fo this by his wife, Annette and their three daughters. Their input along with the experiences of talking to more than a thouand cancer patients and their supporters by telephone and in person at the R.A. Bloch Cancer Management Center and R.A. Bloch Cancer Support Center are what make this book comprehensive and reliable. It is arranged for the primary supporter as well as the casual acquaintaince. Checklists at the end of each section summarize the possililities described in detail. It is a "must read" for anyone who wants to truly help a cancer patient improve the quality of their life and their chances of successfully fighting the disease.« less
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