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The myeloma survival guide : essential advice for patients and their loved ones
Title:
The myeloma survival guide : essential advice for patients and their loved ones
Author:
Tamkin, James A., author.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Demos Health, [2014]
Physical Description:
xvii, 260 pages ; 23 cm
Summary:
The Diagnosis Is Myeloma, Now What? is a patient survival guide and essential resource featuring expert advice on how to deal with every aspect of a myeloma diagnosis, from creating your treatment team to choosing treatment options and navigating financial issues. It will: Clarify the path to available treatment options Teach coping skills to patients and those close to them Minimize myeloma's fear and pain Demonstrate the practicality of hope.
Language:
English
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. One First Steps -- 1. Take Charge: You Don't Get to Just Sit There -- 2. Today's To-Do List: Easy, Important Next Steps -- 3. How to be a Caregiver: Myeloma Is a Team Sport / Fern Tamkin -- 4. Meet Other Patients: Get to Know Your New Community -- 5. The Cognoscenti: Your Treatment Team -- pt. Two Financial and Workplace Issues -- 6. Health Insurance and Other Benefits: Your Financial Safety Net -- 7. Low Hanging Fruit: Financial Help, Free Services, and Discount Drugs -- 8. Myeloma Tax Savings: Minimize Your Tax Burden and Get Some Money Back / George Russell -- 9. Your Workplace: Myeloma Changes Everything -- 10. Looking Ahead: Estate and Practical Planning / Malin Dollinger -- pt. Three Managing Treatment -- 11. Humuhumunukunukuapuaa: Things to Know about Your Drugs / Dave Visel -- 12. How to Deal with Chemo: What to Do and How to Do It -- 13. Rules for Radiation: Huge Machinery Simply Explained -- 14. Notes on Surgery: Surgery Plays Supporting Roles.

Contents note continued: 15. Your Stem Cell Transplant: Lots of Patients Do It -- 16. Thoughts on the Human Condition: Sometimes Things Go Wrong / Jim Tamkin -- 17. Is It Too Late for Broccoli? The Role of Diet and Herbs -- 18. Pain Management Coping Tools -- 19. Home Care: You'll Visit Hospitals but You'll Live at Home -- 20. When Bad News Gets Worse: Don't Be Surprised / Jim Tamkin.
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ISBN:
9781936303687
Format :
Book