Main description:

Your Cancer Road Map: Navigating Life with Resilience is a compassionate, comprehensive guide for cancer patients, their families, and caregivers, designed to take the guesswork out of these crucial decisions every step of the way.
For more than 35 years, the Cancer Support Community (CSC) has been a trusted resource, demystifying the emotional, physical, financial, and logistical challenges related to cancer. From CSC Executive Chair Kim Thiboldeaux, Your Cancer Road Map is a comprehensive guidebook, providing advice and comfort at every point on the cancer journey, from the moment of diagnosis to survivorship and beyond.
Your Cancer Road Map covers hard-to-talk-about topics such as treatment options, finances, how cancer can affect your fertility or sexuality, survivor care, hospice care, and end-of-life planning. In the CSC tradition, the book ensures that people impacted by cancer can live their lives to the fullest and enables them to gain a sense of control during what can be an overwhelming and chaotic time.

Contents:

CONTENTS

Foreword by Jill Biden
Introduction

Section 1: Just Diagnosed

Chapter 1 Take a Deep Breath
Chapter 2 Know Your Diagnosis and Stage of Disease
Chapter 3 Build Your Team
Chapter 4 Understand Your Treatment Options
Chapter 5 Learn About Genetic and Genomic Testing
Chapter 6 Make an Informed Treatment Decision
Chapter 7 Get a Second Opinion
Chapter 8 Ask About Clinical Trials
Chapter 9 Get to Know Your Insurance Coverage
Chapter 10 Ask to Be Screened for Distress
Chapter 11 Ask About Fertility
Chapter 12 Young Adults and Cancer
Chapter 13 Set Up Advance Directives
Chapter 14 Care for the Caregiver

Section 2: Active Treatment

Chapter 15 Time to Gear Up for Treatment
Chapter 16 Learn How to Manage Side Effects
Chapter 17 Talking to Your Kids About Cancer
Chapter 18 Find Emotional Support
Chapter 19 Build Your Digital Support Network
Chapter 20 Focus on Nutrition
Chapter 21 Exercise and Mind-Body Techniques
Chapter 22 Focus on Finances
Chapter 23 Sex and Intimacy
Chapter 24 Managing Work and Cancer
Chapter 25 What If Treatment Doesn't End

Section 3: After Treatment Is Done

Chapter 26 Tools for Survivorship and Beyond
Chapter 27 Survivor Care Plan and Medical Follow-Up
Chapter 28 Managing Fear of Recurrence
Chapter 29 Hospice and End of Life

Acknowledgments
About Kim Thiboldeaux
Cancer Support Community Board of Directors
Cancer Support Community Professional Advisory Board
Cancer Support Community Affiliates
Cancer Patient Advocacy Groups and Resources
Federal and State Programs: Insurance and Employment
Resources for Financial Support
Glossary
Index
Notes