Women's Cancers: Pathways to Living

"Doctor-patient collaboration in care and self-management approaches are a cornerstone of 21st century cancer care. This book is an excellent resource to help patients and equip them with information they need to anticipate some disease and treatment-related difficulties so they can, where possible, self-manage these with professional support."

Dr Anne Lanceley
Senior Lecturer in Women's Cancer
UCL

Taking patients through all aspects of cancer care, this book provides specific, accurate information on various tumour types and treatment modalities, surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and complementary therapy. Unlike many patient guides, it explores holistic health and wellbeing as well as psychological responses, recognising distress and the treatments and interventions to help.

World-renowned surgeon Richard Smith, founder of Uterine Transplant UK, uses inclusive, accessible language as well as pictorial models of doctor-patient communication to describe all of the common gynaecological cancers, their epidemiology, staging and treatment. Speaking directly to the patient and her family, he discusses not only the medical but also the psychological, spiritual and religious aspects to coping and living with a cancer diagnosis.

Written for patients and their families, this book will also be an invaluable resource for nurses, and medical and nursing students, working within the field of gynaecological cancers.