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| A Letter to my Fellow Physicians | |
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| Preface | |
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| In the Beginning | |
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| Responding to Your Diagnosis | |
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| A deeper decision | |
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| Arriving at a diagnosis | |
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| Responses to diagnosis | |
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| Understanding the language | |
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| Understanding how doctors think | |
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| Diagnosing the person with cancer | |
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| Defining Your Relationship with Cancer | |
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| Understanding cancer | |
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| Understanding the message of cancer | |
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| The cancer/patient relationship | |
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| Redefining the cancer/patient relationship | |
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| Overcoming Fear | |
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| Fear versus danger | |
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| A history of fear | |
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| Three components of fear | |
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| What causes fear? | |
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| Susceptibility to fear | |
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| Five ways to overcome fear | |
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| Living a Larger Life | |
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| Why a new model | |
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| Getting more living room | |
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| Living longer | |
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| Living better | |
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| Enlarging meaning | |
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| Remodeling your living room | |
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| Choosing Treatment | |
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| Setting Goals | |
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| What are your goals? | |
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| Short-term versus long-term goals | |
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| What do I want? | |
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| Developing a Strategy | |
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| What is strategy? | |
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| Principles of strategy | |
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| Knowing yourself | |
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| Cancer's place in your life | |
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| Considering your resources | |
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| Making Action Plans | |
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| Living as long as you can--within limits | |
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| Taking risks for a big win | |
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| Developing your medical team | |
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| Emphasizing the best quality of life | |
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| Using complementary treatments | |
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| Overcoming Barriers to Treatment | |
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| Acknowledging your sovereignty | |
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| Needing to be right | |
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| Searching for ultimate truth | |
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| During Treatment | |
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| Maintaining a Positive Attitude | |
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| Hope | |
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| Fighting spirit | |
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| Determination | |
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| Faith | |
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| Maintaining Your Quality of Life | |
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| I do what I can | |
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| Controlling symptoms | |
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| Accentuate the positive | |
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| Psychological and social quality of life | |
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| Overcoming Fatigue | |
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| Understanding fatigue | |
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| Energy bank accounts | |
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| Brain-fry | |
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| Receiving Support | |
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| The need for support | |
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| Family support | |
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| Medical support | |
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| Support groups | |
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| Remission | |
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| In Remission | |
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| Doctors' views of remission | |
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| Patients' views of remission | |
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| Remission as a threshold | |
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| Using Your Second Chance | |
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| I believe I'm cured | |
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| Keep dancing | |
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| Cleaning up my act | |
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| A different kind of treatment | |
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| Living forward | |
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| Investing my time | |
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| Living Comfortably with Uncertainty | |
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| Practicing living with uncertainty | |
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| Holding precious and fragile in a cup | |
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| Life is beautiful | |
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| Relapse | |
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| Back to Square Two | |
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| But I did everything I was told! | |
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| Confronting old stuff | |
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| Making good decisions | |
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| Desperate measures | |
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| Crisis: Danger and Opportunity | |
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| Accepting risk | |
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| Balancing danger and opportunity | |
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| Opportunity knocks softly | |
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| Making Wise Choices | |
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| Discovering the truth | |
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| Fulfilling your heart's desire | |
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| Exploring the shadow | |
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| Your Last Chance for Today | |
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| Last chance for today | |
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| Resetting priorities | |
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| Endgame | |
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| Playing the Endgame to Win | |
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| The endgame in chess | |
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| The endgame in disease | |
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| The strategy of the endgame | |
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| Expressing your character | |
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| Doing It My Way | |
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| Wanting to feel in control | |
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| Gaining trust in the future | |
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| Getting relief from pain and symptoms | |
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| Legal advance directives | |
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| Creating a statement of your values | |
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| Living Fully Until You Die | |
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| Dispiritedness | |
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| Quality of life | |
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| On Being a Hero | |
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| The hero's journey | |
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| The warrior | |
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| Different kinds of warriors | |
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| Transformative sacrifice | |
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| Different kinds of martyrs | |
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| The spiritual path | |
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| Different kinds of spiritual paths | |
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| Family Matters | |
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| Missed opportunities | |
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| Family matters | |
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| What is left behind | |
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| Resources | |
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| The Medical Uses of Hope | |
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| Pain Control | |
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| Preparing for a Medical Examination | |
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| Values Statement | |
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| A Legend of Sovereignty | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |