Coping with Chemotherapy: Compassionate Advice and Authoritative Information from a Chemotherapy Survivor [Paperback]

Nancy Bruning (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 26, 2002

After undergoing chemotherapy herself, author Nancy Bruning decided to write a candid and authoritative book to fill the void of information available for patients facing this procedure. In this completely revised, updated, and thoroughly researched edition, she details every step of the process, providing information even doctors neglect to tell their patients, including possible sexual and emotional side effects and ways to combat them.

Coping with Chemotherapy is a must-read for anyone battling cancer.

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

"A very useful book." The New York Times
Based on interviews with over fifty chemotherapy experts, as well as with patients who have had chemotherapy, this book contains solid, honest, and supportive advice from someone who knows what you or your loved one is going through. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Nancy Bruning is the author or coauthor of more than twenty books, including The Real Vitamin & Mineral Book and The Natural Health Guide to Antioxidants.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 446 pages
• Publisher: Avery Trade; Revised and Updated edition (August 26, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158333131X
• ISBN-13: 978-1583331316
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #959,439 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Is it really possible to be healthy without feeling deprived? Yes! I specialize in writing books designed to help you find your way through confusing and sometimes conflicting health information, and discover your new favorite ways to be. Along with writing, I provide wellness and weight management coaching that feels good. From aromatic Ayurvedic remedies to Mediterranean style eating to creative ways to use a park bench to improve your strength, flexibility, coordination, and balance--there's no need to suffer to be beautiful--contrary to what my mother told me!

I combine real-life experiences like facing breast cancer at the age of thirty, world travel, uncountable hours counseling and teaching regular folk with the latest scientific evidence and multiple certifications to create comprehensive, practical programs and books that people can trust

Because life is too short to spend it drinking diet soda on a treadmill.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The basic information book for all cancer patients., March 10, 1999

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Ann Landry Lombardi ([e-mail]) (Maryland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coping with Chemotherapy (Revised Edition) (Mass Market Paperback)

Bruning covers aspects of curing Cancer that no one is prepared for, in a factual, non-pitying way. This book is a departure from many "I Survived the Big C" books that gloss over how to contend with symptoms and side effects that do have remedies.

As she covers each topic, you may find her own personal experience tucked among the information. But her recovery is not the subject here. It was the variety of information, some outside the traditional approaches with their risks, besides what foods may be helpful.

When I joined CANSURVIVORS, a help group through American Cancer Society, I knew that a factual help book like this was immensely important to ease people through their illness. I refer to it all the time, but often have given my copy away again!

After my treatment, with many bumps along the way despite the best of care, I was determined that a different book was needed. I would write it. I organized the topics, and was searching for professionals to interview. I was startled to find that Bruning followed my outline in "Coping with Chemotherapy" two years earlier. She had written my book very well! I thank her again.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Advice for a Bad Situation, September 15, 2004

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Lisa Marie "Lisa Marie" (Southern New Jersey, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coping with Chemotherapy: Compassionate Advice and Authoritative Information from a Chemotherapy Survivor (Paperback)

My mother is currently going thru chemotherapy and this book is incredibly helpful. Nancy Bruning, the author, is herself a breast cancer survivor and went thru chemotherapy.

"Coping With Chemotherapy" covers every physical symptom I have had to look up as well as the emotional aspects of cancer and chemo. In the beginning of the book Bruning also provides information on the "basics" of how cancer and chemo work...WITHOUT using too much jargon. And because Bruning has been thru this HERSELF, you know she's not blowing smoke up your butt. Bottom line? If you or a loved one are currently getting chemo or trying to find out about some options, this book is a refreshingly honest and caring help.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful tool for those facing chemo., January 9, 1998

By A Customer

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This review is from: Coping with Chemotherapy (Revised Edition) (Mass Market Paperback)

I have purchased several copies of this book to give to friends who were facing or coping with chemo. All of them thanked me and said that it helped them so much. I am buying another one today, sadly, for yet another friend. It tells you things that your doctor may not and let you know how to help yourself.