Charting Your Course : Seminar IV - Setting Your Sails : Further Reading

• National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship Publications. Many of NCCS' publication are free for a single copy. Please call (888-650-9127), fax (301-565-9670), or visit www.canceradvocacy.org for more information on these and new publications or to place an order.
  • A Cancer Survivor's Almanac: Charting Your Journey, updated version (1996) edited by Barbara Hoffman, J.D., with contributions from thirteen of the country's leading cancer survivorship experts. Minneapolis: Chronimed Publishing.
    Explores the full spectrum of cancer survivorship and provides up-to-date practical information and expanded resources section.
  • You Have the Right to be Hopeful. Discusses cancer and fear, hope, denial, family hope, and more. Includes worksheets.
  • Trabajo en Equipo: Guia del Paciente de Cancer Para Harblar con su Medico. Spanish version of Teamwork.
  • Working It Out: Your Employment Rights as a Cancer Survivor.
  • What Cancer Survivors Need to Know About Health Insurance.
• Advice for the Patient: Drug Information in Lay Language, the United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc.,Mack Printing Company.
  Provides information on drug uses, precautions, and side effects. Your pharmacist may have a desk copy for your use. A bookstore edition. United States Pharmacopeia Drug Information for the Consumer, is published by Consumer Reports Books.
• After Cancer: A Guide to Your New Life. Wendy S. Harpham, M.D. NY: Norton, 1994.
  For readers in later stages of treatment and afterwards. Includes medical, insurance, financial, employment, family issues, and emotional issues of survivorship.
• Beyond Miracles: Living With Cancer. Stephen P. Hersh, M.D. Chicago: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company, 1998.
  Explores practical ways of increasing healing skills; taking control of pain; and coping with costs and insurance. Also discusses non-traditional treatments, family issues, living with uncertainty, and dying.
• Choices, third edition, by Marion Morra and Eve Potts, Avon Books, NY, 1994.
  Highly praised book contains a chapter on every major cancer type, presenting common questions and answers about diagnosis, tests, treatments, coping.
• Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer. Michael Lerner, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996.
  A comprehensive review of conventional and complementary therapies for cancer.
• Coping Magazine, P.O.Box 682268, Franklin, TN 37068-2268.
  Bimonthly magazine on all aspects of cancer for those wanting to take an informed, active role in their cancer care.
• Diagnosis Cancer: Your Guide Through the First Few Months. Wendy S. Harpham, M.D., N.Y: Norton, 1992.
  Written by a doctor who is also a cancer survivor, this book helps others to understand their cancer diagnosis and treatment.
• Facing Death and Finding Hope: A Guide to the Emotional and Spiritual Care of the Dying. Christine Longaker. Doubleday, 1997.
  Recommended.
• Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness. Joanne Lynn, M.D. and Joan Harrold, M.D. Oxford University Press, 1999.
  Highly recommended. You can read the full text of this book online at www.medicaring.org.
• Informed Decisions: The Complete Book of Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment and Recovery. Harmon Eyre (Editor), Dianne Partie Lange, Lois B. Morris. Second edition, 2001.
  An American Cancer Society publication that contains the latest information on all aspects of cancer. Designed to help patients and families make their decisions.
• Living Beyond Limits: A Scientific Mind-body Approach to Facing Life-Threatening Illness. David Spiegel, NY, Fawcett, 1994.
  A powerful guide on how to discover within oneself the resources to live more fully, and possibly longer, with life-threatening illness. [Out of print, limited availability]
• Managed Care Made Easy. Vikram Khanna, Allentown, PA: People's Medical Society, 1997.
  Written for the consumer, this book is a comprehensive, but basic, guide through the complexity of managed care.
• Ready to Live: Prepared to Die. Amy Harwell. Wheaton. Il: Harold Shaw Publisher, 1995.
  Identifies issues, options and decisions needed to be addressed in dying, so that the individual can more forward with living.
• Sexuality and Fertility After Cancer. Leslie R. Schover, PhD. NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1997.
  Excellent resource written by a clinical psychologist and sex therapist. Provides detailed explanations on a wide range of physical and psychological concerns related to sexuality following a cancer diagnosis. Includes extensive resource list.
• The Activist Cancer Patient: How to Take Charge of your Treatment. Beverly Zakarian. NY: Wiley, 1996.
  Discussion why you should be an activist patient and how to fight for your case when dealing with others.
• Triumph: Getting Back to Normal When you Have Cancer. Marian Morra and Eve Potts. NY: Avon Books, 1997.
  General information on basic, everyday issues in a question and answer format. Written with the goal of empowering cancer survivors to lead full, active lives.
• What you Really Need to Know About Cancer. Robert Buckman, MD., Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
  Written by a medical oncologist, this book provides basic facts about cancer and treatment based on up-to-date medical information.
• When a Parent Has Cancer: A Guide to Caring for Your Children. Wendy S. Harpham, M.D. NY: Harper Collins Publishers, 1997. Provides comfort, reassurance, and practical advice to families facing cancer. Includes a companion children's book, "Becky and the Worry Cup".

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This content is derived from the "Charting Your Course Seminars: A Whole Person Approach To Living With Cancer", provided by Norris Cotton Cancer Center.