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Index
Cover Page
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
1. How Am I Going to Get through This?
Part I: Making Sense of Your Diagnosis
2. Setting the Goals of Treatment
3. Understanding the Biology of Cancer
4. What Is a Liquid Tumor?
5. How to Prepare for Treatment
6. Tests and Scans in Treatment
7. How Am I Supposed to Cope with This?
8. How Do I Cope with Changes in My Body?
Part II: Managing Symptoms and Side Effects
9. Controlling Nausea
10. Managing Constipation, Diarrhea, and Bowel Obstruction
11. Minimizing Pain
12. Should I Worry about Shortness of Breath?
13. What If I’m Losing Weight?
14. What If I Have a Sudden Fever?
15. Bleeding and Clotting Issues
16. Why Am I So Exhausted? When Will I Have Energy Again?
17. Why Do People Keep Asking Whether I Am Depressed or Anxious?
18. How Does Cancer Affect My Brain?
Part III: Dealing with Progressing Cancer
19. They Tell Me the Cancer Is Progressing
20. Living and Hoping with Advancing Cancer
21. What about Practical Concerns?
22. My Doctor Says That Chemotherapy Is No Longer Effective
23. My Body Feels Like It’s Shutting Down
24. What Is a Good Death?
A Final Note
Index
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