A Woman's Guide to Navigating the Invisible Cancer Load (eBook)

This is the book that every woman with cancer, her supporters, and her healthcare team needs to read for an easier cancer journey. When we receive our cancer diagnosis, we enter into a new world of the unknown. Our medical team carefully explains our treatment plan, procedures, and next steps. But is it really possible to be prepared to navigate a cancer recovery? For Sally-Anne, a mother of two little boys, wife and nurse, some of her greatest recovery challenges came from what she now describes as the 'invisible cancer load'. She found that even with her 18 years of experience in health care, some of the lesser-discussed effects of cancer became her greatest recovery challenges. The invisible load of parenting through recovery, nutrition myth-busting, exercising through symptoms, carer strain, financial strain, cancer fog, body image hurdles, end of life discussions, returning to work, and the mindset challenge of a lifetime, all needed navigation through trial and error. In her book, Sally-Anne unpacks her own recovery experience, shares words of wisdom from the cancer community and collaborates with experts to help shed light on some of the unspoken, yet greatly important impacts of cancer. If you are on your own cancer journey, or you are a health care professional seeking to understand more about the needs of women in their cancer recovery, this book is a must-read.