Braving Chemo: What to Expect, How to Prepare and How to Get Through It - Softcover

Zavaleta MD, Beverly A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1733456503 ISBN 13: 9781733456500

Verlag: Sugar Plum Press, LLC, 2019

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Getting cancer is like a bomb going off in your life.

Having chemotherapy can feel like another bomb.

If you’re getting ready for chemotherapy, you probably have many questions—but searching for answers on the internet can be overwhelming and the pamphlets from your oncologist don’t begin to tell you all you need to know. You may be scared, confused or exhausted. You’ll want to know what to expect and how to prepare for chemotherapy – and so will your loved ones who are supporting you.

In this concise and comforting guidebook, Braving Chemo, Harvard-educated physician and breast cancer survivor Beverly A. Zavaleta MD cuts through the confusion to provide you with clear answers to your most urgent chemotherapy questions, such as:

• Can I keep my hair from falling out?
• What should I eat?
• How can I keep my spirits up when I’m worried about dying?

Combining her medical expertise with a survivor’s experience and insight, Dr. Zavaleta provides practical advice on topics such as where to find reliable information about your treatment regimen, what you should take to your chemo session, and how to keep up your strength. Braving Chemo also confronts the challenges of cancer recovery and coping with fear and pain.

Whether you’re a chemotherapy patient or a cancer caregiver, Braving Chemo is a valuable resource about what to expect during chemo, how to minimize the side effects and how to live life as normally as possible when life itself is on the line.

For more information on Braving Chemo and Dr. Zavaleta, visit her website at www.BeverlyZavaletaMD.com or follow her on Twitter and Instagram @BZavaletaMD.

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Beverly A. Zavaleta, MD is a board-certified family physician, cancer survivor and long-time advocate of patient education. She graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with a BS in anthropology and subsequently worked as an English teacher in Ciudad Victoria, Mexico. After returning to the US, she received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School, where she designed and implemented an asthma patient education program. She completed her residency training in family medicine at Christus Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio, Texas and spent several years in private family medicine practice. In 2015 she was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer and underwent a grueling chemotherapy regimen. That experience, along with her experience as a doctor treating patients with cancer, led her to turn her attention to filling the gap in chemotherapy-focused patient education materials by writing Braving Chemo. Dr. Zavaleta practices as a hospitalist and her health-related articles have appeared in the Brownsville Herald and on KevinMD. She lives in South Texas with her husband, two sons and two dogs, and when not making a mess of her garden, she is reading or doing yoga. For bonus material, more chemotherapy tips and Braving Chemo updates, sign up at BeverlyZavaletaMD.com or follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @BZavaletaMD.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Sugar Plum Press, LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1733456503
• ISBN 13: 9781733456500
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar