Navigating Breast Cancer or Fitness Swimming

Navigating Breast Cancer: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed

Author: Lillie D Shockney

An invaluable guide for newly diagnosed breast cancer patients, Conquering Breast Cancer: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosed offers expert, practical advice from a breast cancer survivor and medical professional. This handbook is packed with information to help lead you through your journey, offering key information on initial consultations, treatment options and the decision-making process, breast cancer centers, communicating the news of diagnosis to your loved ones, pre- and post-surgery quality of life, sexual intimacy, adjuvant treatment after surgery, targeted therapy, financial issues of treatment, celebrating treatment completion and survivorship, as well as the future of breast cancer, additional resources for patients and their families, and much more.

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Reviewer:Betsy Frank, RN, PhD, ANEF(Indiana State University School of Nursing)
Description:This overview of treatment options for breast cancer provides general facts about the nature of breast cancer and discusses a woman's expected psychological response. An excellent glossary is incorporated within the chapters.
Purpose:This book is targeted at women who are newly diagnosed with breast cancer. The information provided is intended to guide a woman through the trajectory of care.
Audience:Written at a lay level, the book is straightforward without being condescending. Family members and other support persons as well as patients will find this useful.
Features:The book takes newly diagnosed women through the process of initial diagnosis to the follow-up care needed after initial treatment. The decision-making process is stressed. The author focuses on the need for arming women with as much information as possible so that they can ask questions of care providers and take control of the decisions regarding treatment options. Quick decision-making is discouraged. The author's upbeat approach should instill in women the sense that breast cancer is generally not fatal and living a full life is possible perhaps during and certainly after treatment. The author spends considerable time on describing care given at academic health science centers, as well as the breast reconstruction option following mastectomy. Some women may not choose to seek care at these centers, nor have access to them. In addition, some women may not want to feel pressured into seeking breast reconstruction.
Assessment:This book is a goodstarting place for women who are newly diagnosed with breast cancer. The web sites listed in the book will help women and their support system to seek further information needed to consider all treatment options.

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Fitness Swimming

Author: Emmett W Hines

Want more from your workout? Whether you seek to improve your technique, trim your times, swim greater distances, or simply improve your fitness level, Fitness Swimming will help you achieve your goals, all in full-color.

Expert swim coach Emmett Hines has created 60 new workouts and 16 sample programs, each arranged into suggested training zones to correspond to your fitness level and performance goals. Over a dozen cutting-edge technique drills help you progressively build an effective freestyle stroke. The text covers stretching, warm-up and cool-down methods, heart rate zone targets, expanded instruction for stroke efficacy, progressive drills, conditioning tips, and fitness assessments. Fitness Swimming has all the information you need to chart progress and maintain peak performance.

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Bill Volckening
"Emmett Hines is an influential coach-a pioneer among masters swimming coaches. In Fitness Swimming he shares the very latest on swimming technique, and his no-nonsense approach to stroke analysis is refreshing. No swimming library would be complete without this book."--(Bill Volckening, Editor, USMS Swimmer )

Glenn Mills
"Emmett has done a great job of creating a resource for swimmers on the technique and conditioning fundamentals of the sport. No matter what level, the drills and workouts will help you become a better all-around swimmer."--(Glenn Mills, U.S. Olympic Swimmer and Founder of GoSwim.tv)

Table of Contents:

Part I Preparing to Swim
Chapter 1. Swimming for Your Life
Chapter 2. Getting Equipped
Chapter 3. Assessing Your Swimming Fitness

Part II Swimming the Right Way
Chapter 4. Your Relationship With the Water
Chapter 5. Posture and Balance Drills
Chapter 6. Stroke Integration Drills and Turns
Chapter 7. Warming Up, Stretching, and Cooling Down

Part III Swimming Workouts
Chapter 8. Level 1
Chapter 9. Level 2
Chapter 10. Level 3
Chapter 11. Level 4
Chapter 12. Level 5
Chapter 13. Level 6

Part IV Training Over the Long Haul
Chapter 14. Planning Seasonal Training
Chapter 15. Sample Programs
Chapter 16. Charting Your Progress