ONS Resources

Available ONS Books

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  A Patient's Guide to Cancer Symptom Management
  A Patient’s Guide to Cancer Symptom Management, written by Carlton Brown, is meant to be shared with your patients and their families. This new book details the effects of cancer symptoms ranging from anemia to sleep problems and in plain language free of medical jargon. Each chapter explains the nature of the problem, including the causes and symptoms, and presents details on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

• I Have Cancer: Now What?: A Patient's Guide to Cancer Symptom Management
  I Have Cancer. Now What?, a new book from ONS, will help you through your cancer experience, providing information and resources to guide you through your diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up. It will also help you keep track of your appointments, important phone numbers, medications, and symptoms.
• Help Wanted: Caregiver: A Guide to Helping Your Loved One Cope With Serious Illness
  Help Wanted: Caregiver, a new book from Hygeia Media written by Laura J. Pinchot, provides a guide to help those who have been tasked with caring for a loved one, friend, or family member. This book offers a primer on in-home care as well as options for institutional care, the next logical step as the scope of care becomes too much to handle. You will also find information on financial and legal issues as well as challenges that caregivers face in their relationship for the person under their care.
• Woman Cancer Sex
  Sexuality after a diagnosis of cancer is a real issue for women and their partners. In her book, Woman Cancer Sex, Dr. Anne Katz explains the changes that many women with cancer experience and offers practical and compassionate advice on how to handle these changes.
• Coping With Cancer: A Patient Pocket Book of Thoughts, Advice, and Inspiration for the Ill
  Coping with Cancer: A Patient Pocket Book of Thoughts, Advice, and Inspiration for the Ill will empower your patients with the knowledge, wisdom, and good judgment they need when facing illness while your patients deal with upcoming treatment, physical struggles, physical pain, and an uncertain future, this book will help them manage their private thoughts and personal emotions.
• Man Cancer Sex
  A follow-up to her popular book, Woman Cancer Sex, this new book by Anne Katz explores how men are affected by a diagnosis of cancer and how they can seek help. Written for men and the women and men who love them and live with them through the cancer experience, Man Cancer Sex explores issues ranging from loss of libido to communication with a partner and problems and concerns in between.

Survivorship Websites With Information for the Cancer Survivor

• The Cancer Journey
• The Journey Forward