"This book will help patients newly diagnosed and struggling with the confusing array of terms, technologies, and choices before them. Organization is the first step to control and this book provides the means to get started"—
Clifford A. Hudis, MD, Chief, Breast Cancer Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center“This book is a wonderful and helpful resource for the woman with breast cancer. It is calming, positive and reassuring. I will recommend it to my patients.”—
John Link, M.D., Breast oncologist and author of The Breast Cancer Survival Manual“I wish
The Breast Cancer Companion was available when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Having this in hand would have simplified matters and made managing treatment far easier. I cannot recommend this enough to any women diagnosed with breast cancer.”—
Maria T. Vargas, Pre-K Teacher, Rockefeller University Child and Family Center and breast cancer survivor"This workbook for patients offers a wealth of tools for keeping track of doctor visits, medications, treatments, and expenses while surviving breast cancer, combined with advice on preparing for different types of treatment and suggestions for regaining health after treatment. There is also an overview of reconstruction and prosthesis and related intimacy issues. The bulk of the book contains forms for organizing the medical team's contacts, space for making notes on medical appointments, a calendar, and logs for keeping track of treatment history, medications, and lab tests. There are also forms for organizing insurance information and itemizing medical expenses. Peppered with boxed quotes from real survivors, the book includes a glossary and lists of books, magazines, organizations, and vendors. Sokolowski is co-founder of Norwalk Hospital's Smilow Family Breast Health Center. Rossi is co-author of a diabetes patient workbook."—
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Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
I recently purchased this book for a friend of mine who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. I purchased it after she had her first chemo. Both she and her husband had said there were already things they had forgotten from earlier doctors appointments. She immediately grabbed the book and started journaling in it. She has had three rounds of chemo now and still has a long road ahead of her but this book never leaves her side. She takes it with her everywhere. I would have asked her to write her own review but she has a little too much on her mind right now. I think if she were to sum up this book she would say that it has been invaluable to her . . . a godsend. So in behalf of anyone newly diagnosed with breast cancer I would whole heartedly recommend this book. I know it has made a huge difference in the way my friend has been able to handle everything that it happening in her life right now. If I won the lottery I would buy up all the available copies of this book and give them to anyone newly diagnosed with breast cancer. I think it is really an indispenable companion for any woman beginning this journey. If I could give it more than 5 stars I would.
