Navigating Life with a Brain Tumor
1st Edition
Published on 23. October 2012
230 pages
978-0-19-931121-7 (ISBN)
Description
Navigating Life with a Brain Tumor is a guide for anyone affected by brain tumors and their associated conditions-patients, family members, friends, and caregivers. Providing readily accessible information and real-world encouragement to people living with primary and metastatic brain tumors and their caregivers, this book discusses the basics of brain tumors, types of tumors, management of different tumors, related symptoms, treatments and side effects, the role of medical team members, and coping strategies from initial diagnosis throughout the course of the illness. At the same time, it also offers practical suggestions on symptom management and lifestyle modification, as well as real-life anecdotes and advice from both patients and family members and friends who are experiencing this diagnosis.
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Lynne P. Taylor | Alyx B. Porter | Diane Richard
Navigating Life with a Brain Tumor
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12/2012
1st Edition
Oxford University Press Inc
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- About The AAN's Neurology NowT Book Series
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- PART 1: Where Do I Begin?
- Introduction
- Step 1: Take a Deep Breath
- Step 2: Seek Out Information
- Step 3: Assemble Your Team
- Step 4: Keep a Journal
- 1: A Look Inside Your Brain
- Basics About the Brain
- Understanding Brain Tumors
- A Search for Why
- Getting a Diagnosis
- 2: Diagnosis
- Assessment and Plan
- Getting the Medical Help You Need
- Assembling Your Team
- Finalizing Your Treatment Team
- Understanding Your Prognosis
- Time to Take Charge
- 3: Understanding Radiation Therapy
- Members of the Radiation Oncology Team
- Important Considerations
- Side Effects of Radiation Therapy
- Retreatment
- PART 2: How Do I Deal with This?
- 4: Lifestyle Management
- Feel Empowered
- Reduce Stress
- Breathe Deeply
- Consider Meditation
- Move Your Muscles
- Eat Well
- Herbal and Dietary Supplements
- Driving
- Working
- Support Groups
- Cosmetic Issues
- Creativity, Art, and Humor as Therapy
- 5: Symptom Management and Palliative Care
- Symptoms
- "Big Picture" Topics to Keep in Mind
- 6: Care of the Caregiver
- Presurgery
- During Treatment
- Recurrence
- 7: Planning for Your Future: Managing Your Personal Affairs
- Your Emergency Notebook
- Informal and Formal Arrangements
- Durable Power of Attorney
- Trusts
- Health Care Directives
- Guardianship and Conservatorship
- Your Will
- PART 3: What Can I and My Medical Team Do About It?
- 8: Benign Tumors
- Basics About Meningioma
- Treating Atypical and Malignant Meningiomas
- Pituitary Adenoma
- Acoustic Neuroma
- How Will Having One of These Tumors Affect My Life?
- 9: Primary Brain Tumors
- Understanding Your Treatment Options
- Understanding Your Pathology Report
- Radiation Therapy and Chemotherapy
- 10: Metastatic Brain Tumors
- Symptoms
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Prognosis
- Leptomeningeal Disease
- APPENDIX: GUIDE TO DRUGS PRESCRIBED FOR BRAIN TUMORS
- GLOSSARY
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- ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
- ABOUT THE A AN AND THE ABF
- INDEX
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