Yoga and Breast Cancer

Ingrid Kollak holds a doctorate in literature and is a registered nurse. Currently she is Professor, Alice-Salomon University of Applied Sciences (ASFH), in Berlin, and since 1995, has acted as chair Division of Health and Nursing Management there, with previous teaching in the Bachelors and Master programs. She is well noted in the US for her work in the conceptual bases for nursing theories and in the EU for her work on intercultural perspectives at play in health care. She is editor of three books in the field of nursing, and is the author of Springer Publishing's title ""Yoga for Nurses"" Dr. Kollak authors a monthly yoga column in the German journal Health Professions.||Isabell Utz-Billing is a medical doctor in the department of gynecology and obstetrics of the German Red Cross Hospital Westend in Berlin. During her residency she specialized in diagnosis and therapy of breast cancer patients. Her interest lies on the topics of psychosocial support of patients with breast cancer. Both co-authors cooperated in the randomized clinical study The Effects of Yoga on Patients with Mammacancer (2008-2009) funded by the German Statutory Health Insurance (AOK).

Foreword; Introduction; I: Yoga for Women with Breast Cancer: 1. How Yoga Works; 2. A Short History of Yoga; 3. Self-help and Yoga; 4. Rehabilitative and Supportive Yoga; 5. On Your Way with Yoga; 6. Exercises for Everyday Life; 7. Yoga Exercises with Continuous Effects; 8. Beyond Exercising; II: About the Disease: 9. Types of Breast Cancer and Their Origins; 10. State-of-the-art Methods of Surgery; 11. Therapies, Effects, Side Effects, and Helpful Means; 12. Body Image and Intimacy; III:Further Reading: Web Links; Literature; Glossary; Index