Fertility issues: the perceptions and experiences of young men recently diagnosed and treated for cancer.
Chapple A, Salinas M, Ziebland S, McPherson A, Macfarlane A.
Journal of Adolescent Health 40 2007 69-75
No Time to Die
Liz Tilberis
Weidenfeld and Nicholson
The author had ovarian cancer.
Courage: the Testimony of a Cancer Patient
Barbara Creaturo
Random House, Pantheon, New York, 1991
ISBN 0394222237
The decision to have a prosthesis
Chapple A, McPherson A.
Psycho-Oncology 2004; 13: 654-664
A qualitative study of men with testicular cancer. A HERG publication.
Qualitative study of men's perceptions of why treatment delays for those with testicular cancer
Chapple A, Ziebland S, McPherson A.
Qualitative study of men’s perceptions of why treatment delays occur in the UK for those with testicular cancer Br J Gen Pract 2004; 54: 25-32.
Still with Me: A Daughter's Journey of Love and Loss
Andrea King Collier
Simon and Schuster, New York
Describes the author's 12 month battle with and ultimate surrender to her mother's ovarian cancer. A tender, honest, headstrong and at times hilarious account of Collier's experience as health care advocate and caretaker for her mother.
All that really matters
Campbell Armstrong
Time-Warner Books, 2001
Moving memoir about his first wife Eileen and the daughter she gave up for adoption. Daughter in UK has and after long searching finds mother who is in Arizona - discovers she also has ovarian ca and is having chemotherapy. ISBN 0751530794
Trust Me I'm a Cancer Patient
By Wesley C. Finegan
The author of this book was diagnosed with cancer (non - Hodgkin's lymphoma) in 1994 whilst he was working as a consultant in palliative medicine. He tells how when he was diagnosed, someone said to him, "you will cope better because you know what to expect" when in actual fact he didn't know what to expect - he had never been a cancer patient before. This book offers practical advice from someone who's 'been there', on many of the common issues that cancer patients find themselves having to deal with - pain, physical problems and personal, social and spiritual problems. The author aims to help the cancer sufferer work in tandem with medical staff/carers; he has produced this excellent 'handbook' that is well worth reading by patients and carers alike, either from cover to cover or by dipping into it when the need arises. ISBN 1 85775 877 3
How the Internet affects patients' experience of cancer. A qualitative study.
Ziebland S, Chapple A, Dumelow C, Evans J, Prinjha S, Rozmovits L.
BMJ 2004; 328:564-7 (abridged version; the full version is on BMJ.com) Available on http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/content/vol328/issue7439/ A DIPEx publication.
Chimiofolies
Anne Matalon
HB Editions, 30670 Aigues-Vives, France, 2000
Amazingly poetic realistic description of author's experience of 6 cycles of chemotherapy for ovarian cancer [in French].
The role of humor for men with testicular cancer
Chapple A, Ziebland S.
Qualitative Health Research 2004; 14 No 8: 1123-1139
The Race for Life
By Bryony Carr and Others
A book of poems written by a young person who had cancer.
Have Men been overlooked? A comparison of young men and women’s experiences of chemotherapy-induced alopecia.
Hilton S, Hunt K, Emslie C, Salinas M, Ziebland S.
Psycho-Oncololgy 2007
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