Women's Cancers

Pathways to Living

Taking patients through all aspects of cancer care, this book provides specific, accurate information on various tumour types and treatment modalities, surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and complementary therapy. Unlike many patient guides, it explores holistic health and wellbeing as well as psychological responses, recognising distress and the treatments and interventions to help.

World-renowned surgeon Richard Smith, founder of Uterine Transplant UK, uses inclusive, accessible language as well as pictorial models of doctor–patient communication to describe all of the common gynaecological cancers, their epidemiology, staging and treatment. Speaking directly to the patient and her family, he discusses not only the medical but also the psychological, spiritual and religious aspects to coping and living with a cancer diagnosis.

Written for patients and their families, this book will also be an invaluable resource for nurses, and medical and nursing students, working within the field of gynaecological cancers.

All royalties from this book are being donated by the authors to Womb Transplant UK, Registered Charity no.1138559. For more information please visit http://wombtransplantuk.org/.

Contents:

• General Information:

  • General Introduction
  • Anatomy Overview
  • The 4 Cusp Approach to Cancer Care
  • General Concepts of Surgical Management
  • Sex, Cancer and Surgery

• Information on Specific Cancers:

  • Cervical Cancer and Pre-Cancer (Cervical Intra-Epithelial Neoplasia (CIN)/ Squamous Intra-Epithelial Lesion (SIL))
  • Ovarian Cancer Including Cancer of the Fallopian Tube
  • Endometrial Cancer
  • Vulval Cancer
  • Breast Cancer by Adam Stacey-Clear
  • Choriocarcinoma — Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia (GTN)

• General Treatments and Care:

  • General Concepts of Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy
  • Pain Management
  • Complementary Therapies
  • Hypnotherapy by Shaun Hammond
  • Nutrition by Nigel Denby
  • Cardiac Synchronicity, the Secular Approach to Chant: How Might Understanding the Heart's Role in Our Emotional Responses Apply to the 4 Cusp Approach?
  • Bereavement and Grief by the Rev. Gary Bradley and J R Smith
  • Spiritual Approaches to Living with Cancer by J R Smith
  • Conclusion
  • Suggested Further Reading

Readership: Patients and their relatives, medical students, doctors, nursing students and nurses working within the field of gynaecological cancers.
Key Features:

• Patient centred approach to healthcare
• Multiple tips on how to deal with a cancer diagnosis
• An resource on survivorship