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August 17th, 2010 
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Product Description
As women quickly discover, their life when treatment ends is very different from what it was before their diagnosis. Often exhausted, anxious, and emotionally volatile, they are beset by physical discomforts, fearful of intimacy, afraid for their children, worried about recurrence. Anticipating a return to œnormalcy,” they discover that the old version of normal no longer applies.
There could be no more knowledgeable guide for women embarking on this comp… More >>
After Breast Cancer: A Common-Sense Guide to Life After Treatment
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For those breast cancer patients finishing treatment or who have finished treatment, I highly recommend After Breast Cancer: A Common-Sense Guide to Life After Treatment by Hester Hill Schnipper. This book is filled with excellent information on what to expect after breast cancer treatment.
Many valuable books have been written on being diagnosed with breast cancer and what it is like to undergo treatments. But Schnipper’s After Breast Cancer is necessary for people who have lived through treatments and now must face the very difficult post-breast cancer world.
And she should know. An oncology social worker who has worked for years helping women through breast cancer psychosocial support programs, the author found herself diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993 and a second primary breast cancer in 2005. Being on the clinician and patient sides of the spectrum, Schnipper was the perfect person to write this book.
This step-by-step primer on coping after breast cancer offers information and tips on navigating life after breast cancer diagnosis and treatments — from the first few weeks after treatment ends to the first few months — as well as physical and emotional recovery, fertility issues with young breast cancer survivors, and various work and family issues that survivors face.
The book reads beautifully, thanks to Schnipper’s easy-flowing writing style. I couldn’t put it down, and even though I have been out of treatment for years, the book resonated deeply with me. As a breast cancer survivor, I know first-hand the post-cancer fears and vulnerability the author writes about.
This book works as a type of support system for those facing a post-cancer life. Readers who are finishing treatment or have finished treatment will find this book immensely helpful and will feel that they are not alone: For many survivors, the hardest part of the breast cancer experience is acclimating to a world that mistakenly believes that once breast cancer and its treatments are “over,” that it’s really all “over,” and the breast cancer survivor should now return to “normal.”
The truth is, life after cancer is exceedingly difficult — physically and emotionally — and the author has the courage, honesty, and integrity to focus on this important topic.
And I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the beautiful, touching foreward by the author’s husband, Lowell E. Schnipper, a medical oncologist at the same hospital that the author works at: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Schnipper’s foreward was so moving, it brought me to tears. As a physician and the husband of a breast cancer patient and now-survivor, he is on the professional and personal side of the breast cancer spectrum, and I cannot think of a better person to have written this foreward.
After Breast Cancer: A Common-Sense Guide to Life After Treatment is a must-read for those facing the aftermath of breast cancer. The book helps readers understand how to better make the transition from patient to survivor.
– Beth L. Gainer, “Calling the Shots,” [...].
Rating: 5 / 5
I was so happy to come across this book. I have received many uplifting emails from an online support group that the author of this book is head of, very helpful. So to find this book that she had written, and to find out that she is a 2 time survivor of breat cancer, it was two real. I found the book very helpful, now I know that many of the things I have been feeling is completly normal once you complete active treatment. I’m not going crazy! So for anyone out there who need help in understanding the next leg of the Cancer Jounery, this book is a must HAVE!!!!!!!! I would highly recommed it to all!!!!!!!
Rating: 5 / 5
I have purchased 9 books since I was diagnosed with breast cancer. This one book covered it all and is now my bible. Excellent read and so informative while touching the emotional issues that go with the challenges of BC. Must have for anyone diagnosed.
Rating: 5 / 5
I found this book extremely helpful and helped me understand what was happening with me and my breast cancer. It also explains other treatments, how to deal with other people and their reaction to my cancer, and understand my friend’s cancers. Highly recommend for anyone who is dealing with this diaease!
Rating: 5 / 5
My sister just finished chemo and radiation for stage 3c breast cancer and this book, she says, is the best book she’s read on the subject. Not all sunshine and roses, or something that is just too depressing for words. But like hearing from a good friend who is relating the same struggles that you are now going through.
Rating: 5 / 5