"Speak Slow I've Had Chemo" An A - Z Guide to Surviving Breast Cancer

Book excerpt: An alphabet Patient Handbook utilized for the "need to knows" of breast cancer in a colorful presentation utilizing bold messages and clip art for visual imagery and healing. It addresses the psychosocial aspects a woman encounters in her life crisis with breast cancer. Serious take action issues as fertility that must be addressed before medical treatment are critical before a treatment plan is in place! 1 This material is presented patient to patient in a less medicinal way to create medical awareness. 2 Discuss the "unmentionables" as sexuality, chemo brain, lymphedema, hair loss, fertility, etc providing solutions to improve body image and increase self esteem. 3 Promote healing to overcome adversities A wonderful patient handbook to be utilized with simplified messages by a survivor with a bold message! "Speak Slow I've had Chemo" An A - Z Guide to Surviving Breast Cancer makes a wonderful medical setting book, gift for a patient, caregiver, or used for education for nursing students and other med students, survivor groups, gynecology, etc