by Stephen N. Haynes, Luanna H. Meyer, and Ian M. Evans
Our practical, science-based guide for supporters of women with breast cancer is now published and available from Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) Publishers, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other bookstores.
This 2022 book offers advice and information about how to provide the best emotional and practical support you can when helping someone with breast cancer to cope, recover, and thrive–while maintaining your own physical and psychological health. As authors, we translate psychological evidence into concrete and doable advice for caregivers, validated by our own first-hand experience with breast cancer. Different chapters review diagnosis and decision-making along with the range of cancer treatment options including lumpectomies and breast-sparing surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, mastectomies, and going flat or choosing breast reconstruction. We cover issues around privacy and disclosure with practical advice about when and how to tell family members, children, and friends. The guide includes a chapter on metastatic breast cancer and end-of-life for women who will undergo treatment for the rest of their lives, and concludes with a chapter on taking care of yourself as support person.