Women's Cancers
How to Prevent Them, How to Treat Them, How to Beat Them--THIRD EDITION
Third Edition
by Kerry A McGinn R.N.
, Pamela J Haylock R.N.
This highly praised guide offers women information, ideas, and support for treating and surviving cancer-from lung and colon cancer to the malignancies that exclusively affect women: breast, cervical, ovarian, uterine, and vaginal cancer, as well as rarer forms of reproductive cancers.
The authors clearly and sensitively address the issues around a cancer diagnosis, from finding the right physician to psychological factors that can affect health. They discuss risk factors and complementary therapies, and give advice for coping with all aspects of chemotherapy, including nausea and hair loss.
This updated third edition includes a whole chapter on the physiologic, functional, cosmetic, sensory, cognitive or psychosocial late and long-term effects of cancer and how to cope with them. Other updates include information on the role of genetics in cancer, the new FDA approved drugs, and possible environmental factors in cancer development.
PUBLICATION DETAILS
PUBLICATION DATE: 2002 November
EDITION: Third
PAGES: 512
SIZE: 7-1/4 x 9-1/4
ILLUSTRATIONS: 70 illus
INDEXED: Yes
BIBLIOGRAPY: Yes
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kerry A. McGinn received her BSN in Nursing from the University of California, San Francisco, in 1976 and her Oncology Nursing Certification in 1991. Since 1976 she has been a staff nurse at the United States Public Health Service Hospital in San Francisco, staff nurse and ostomy resource specialist at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in San Francisco, per diem staff nurse at San Francisco General Hospital, and, most recently, a clinical nurse at the Planetree Model Hospital Unit and Oncology Unit at the California Pacific Medical Center.
McGinn earned a Master's degree in English from San Francisco State University in 1982, and is an experienced medical writer. Her previous books include __The Informed Woman's Guide to Breast Health and The Ostomy Book. She has also written articles for medical publications, including "When People Ask About Mammography . . .," published in The Nugget (San Francisco Bay Area Oncology Nursing Society, April 1992) and "Living with an Ostomy," published in Everyone's Guide to Cancer Therapy (Andrews and McMeel, 1992).
McGinn lives in San Francisco and is a member of both the national and local chapters of the Oncology Nursing Society. She is also a member of the Bay Area Vascular Access Network. She frequently addresses health care consumers and providers on benign breast changes, cancer survivorship, and breast cancer patient issues. Since 1990 she has served as a volunteer in the
American Cancer Society's Reach to Recovery Program.
Pamela J. Haylock earned her BSN from the University of Iowa College of Nursing, Iowa City, in 1971 and her MA in Nursing of Adults from the University of Iowa College of Nursing in 1977.
Since then she has been, among other things, a public health nurse for the Linn County Health Department in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, an enterostomal therapy nurse at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital and Home Health Care Agency in San Francisco, and an oncology clinical nurse specialist and Director of Oncology and AIDS Services at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco. She is presently a cancer care consultant, owner, and partner of Haylock Cantril Associates in Woodside California, providing cancer-specific resources to health care facilities and community organizations for planning cancer care services, cancer program management and implementation, and programs for professional staff development, staff support, and public and professional education.
Haylock is Associate Editor of Oncology Nursing Society Nursing Scan in Oncology and has published numerous articles in medical publications including ONS News, Homecare Therapies for Cancer Patients, Seminars in Oncology Nursing, American Journal of Nursing, and The Aids Forum. She has also taught college-level courses in general health, basic nursing and adult nursing care.
Haylock lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is an active member of both the national and local chapters of the Oncology Nursing Society. She has been the editor of The Nugget, the newsletter of the local ONS chapter, and from 1984 - 1986 was President of the local chapter. She has served on various committees for the national ONS chapter, and has recently been appointed to a 3-year term as Secretary of the national chapter. She is on the board of directors of the
Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation, and is a member of the Cancer Center of San Francisco Planning Committee, the Association of Community Cancer Centers, and the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship.
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