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Cancer Talk
Voices of Hope and Endurance from 'The Group Room,' the World's Largest Cancer Support Group
by Selma R. Schimmel, Barry Fox
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Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Broadway; 1st (May 18 1999)
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Chapter 1: Fear and Anger, Hope and Humor
One of the goals of Cancer Talk is to help people not see themselves as victims, because being a victim implies that you are powerless. Today, people dealing with cancer are not powerless.

Chapter 1: Fear and Anger, Hope and Humor
One of the goals of Cancer Talk is to help people not see themselves as victims, because being a victim implies that you are powerless. Today, people dealing with cancer are not powerless.

Handling Fear and Anger
Feelings of fear and anger are intertwined in the cancer experience. Most people want to feel a sense of control in their lives, but cancer challenges that, and you go through a flurry of powerful feelings.



Book Description

For the first time, Cancer Talk provides a support group in a book.

Research shows that cancer patients who attend support groups can survive longer and lead fuller lives than patients receiving medical treatment alone. Cancer Talk, based on "The Group Room®," the nation's only talk-radio cancer support show, brings hope, information, and inspiration to everyone affected by cancer. Show host Selma Schimmel, a cancer advocate and longtime survivor, has gathered the voices of cancer patients and survivors, family and friends, physicians, therapists, and other healthcare professionals to create an invaluable guide to help you:

  • Deal with the wide range of emotions a cancer diagnosis provokes
  • Cope with relationships, intimacy, and physical changes
  • Optimize the doctor-patient relationship and navigate treatment options
  • Handle the side effects of treatment
  • Understand legal, workplace, and insurance issues
  • Live with and beyond cancer

Anyone whose life has been touched by cancer will find new support from the intimate and empowering voices of the only real experts out there--the people who live with cancer.

About the Author

Selma R. Schimmel

Selma R. Schimmel was diagnosed with breast cancer at age twenty-eight. In the sixteen years since, she has become a leader for numerous cancer programs and a healthcare advocate. Schimmel founded and currently serves as president and CEO of Vital Options®, which produces "The Group Room." She lives in southern California..

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