By John Leifer
After You Hear It’s Cancer
A Guide to Navigating the Difficult Journey Ahead
Nonfiction
For a newly diagnosed patient, it is like going on a trip without knowing the destination or method of transportation, with no map to guide you and no planned arrival time. It is little wonder that patients often feel overwhelmed and unable to participate in critical decisions about their care. Our logical minds stop working just when we need to be thinking with absolutely clarity about our next steps.
After You Hear It’s Cancer is a survival guide for this difficult time. It helps you see through the initial fog of distress, anticipate the curves and bends in the road ahead, and make the right decisions for you and your family. This book covers a broad range of topics: from the selection of your care team to critical decisions at the end of treatment.
You will find important information on:
- Understanding your diagnosis and treatment options
- How to select your cancer care team and facility for treatment
- The importance of second opinions
- What to do when you are presented with multiple options for treatment
- How to anticipate and manage the side-effects of treatment
- How to manage the emotional roller-coast of cancer
- What to do when cancer treatment seems unaffordable
- How to care for your family caregivers
- What happens when initial treatments fail
- Understanding clinical trials
- The challenges that await cancer survivors
- The importance of hope throughout the journey
The book is divided into three sections so that patients may read those sections that are most relevant to them.
Best Selling Author
John Leifer
John Leifer is a senior health care executive, consultant, academic, and writer. He is the author of The Myths of Modern Medicine: The Alarming Truth About American Health Care and After You Hear It’s Cancer: A Guide to the Difficult Journey Ahead.
John is also an accomplished fiction author – writing thrillers that draw upon his experiences with key governmental agencies and scientists, including serving on a presidential panel led by former national security advisor, Brent Scowcroft.
John's Books
The Dark Ark
Fiction
A devastating chain of events is unfolding aboard Navy vessel Prometheus. Known as the Dark Ark, the ship's official mission was to catalogue the DNA of every known life-form, but its research extended far beyond its genetic library. The Prometheus possesses secrets that could change the world - secrets about to be stolen..
Thou Shall Not Kill
Fiction
Thou Shall Not Kill reads like breaking news from the Jerusalem Post. Based upon exhaustive research into Israeli military history, Israeli doctrine regarding the use of non-traditional weapons, and the current state of threat posed by Israel’s foes, it is not only captivating, but credible.
8 Seconds to Midnight
Fiction
8 Seconds to Midnight takes the reader on a non-stop thrill-ride that begins with the clandestine transfer of nuclear material from a secure Pakistani military installation thirty miles north of Islamabad to a group of radical Islamists.
Terminal
Fiction
In this chilling prequel to 8 Seconds to Midnight, the most devastating terrorist attack ever recorded on American soil begins and ends without spilling a single drop of blood.
After You Hear It's Cancer
Nonfiction
When your doctor utters the word “cancer”, life changes in an instant. It is a moment when time stands still, a moment laden with anxiety and uncertainty. A new journey is beginning, and it is one for which you are likely ill prepared.
The Myths of Modern Medicine
Nonfiction
The American health care system is terminally ill. It is astonishingly expensive, remarkably variable in quality, and incapable of stemming the rising tide of chronic illness in our population.