Titlebook: Coping with Cancer Stress; With an Introduction Basil A. Stoll (Honorary consultant physician to o Book 1986 Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, D

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IntroductionThese are difficult times for practitioners and researchers in psychosocial oncology and the truly important questions are still with us: What can be done about problems that we don’t understand as yet, and can scarcely formulate? How shall we differentiate between facts and traditional fictions?

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Denial in Cancer PatientsThe mental defence mechanism of “denial” is often invoked when cancer patients appear inappropriately unconcerned or optimistic about their illness. The term is often used in a pejorative sense, but despite its potential negative consequences, denial among cancer patients can have a valuable role in enhancing both mental and physical wellbeing.

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Help Given by Fellow PatientsIn recent years, mutual support by cancer patients has spread rapidly. The most important characteristic of the mutual support groups is that support is given in a face-to-face contact between a volunteer and a new patient; the support is based on an exchange of their experiences.

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Coping with Cancer Surgery may be routine, is often a once in a lifetime experience for the patient dying in an alien environment away from the support of family and friends. Usually he has two main areas of concern: the first is the degree of pain and discomfort he might have to suffer and the second is fear of the outcome.

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Coping with Cytotoxic Therapyreal and may be severe, but they are by no means uniform in severity. Unfortunately, people often assume the worst possible side effects when decisions about chemotherapy are made. Discussion of the effects to be expected usually need to be repeated in order to overcome the communication difficultie

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Coping with Radiation Therapyivity, nuclear power and even death ray guns! It causes radiation sickness, is dangerous, can burn and even cause cancer. Some will have had a friend or relative in the terminal stages of malignancy who has had radiotherapy, and the event may sometimes be recalled as a harbinger of death.

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Depression in Cancer Patientsant to review our knowledge of the cause of depressive illness in cancer patients, its symptoms and the diagnostic difficulties Also the prevalence of depressive illness in cancer practice and the prevention of such illness.

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