Cancer Survival Toolbox®

National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
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Cancer Survival Toolbox®

The Cancer Survival Toolbox is an award-winning series of audio programs developed by leading cancer organizations to help people develop important skills to meet the challenges of their illness. The audio programs address scenarios for many topics and issues cancer patients/survivors face during their cancer journey. The conversations touch on issues from how to communicate with your doctor, family and loved ones, to understanding complicated financial issues. Each scenario is inspired by true stories of real cancer patients/survivors.

Episodes

  1. 04/06/2015

    Program 01 - Communicating

    Communicating means letting someone else know clearly what you think and feel, and also learning what the other person thinks and feels.

    33 min

  2. 04/06/2015

    Program 02 - Finding Information

    Finding Information explains how to use many of the different resources available to find information that will help you understand your kind of cancer and its treatment.

    31 min

  3. 04/06/2015

    Program 03 - Making Decisions

    Making Decisions is designed to help you identify how you make decisions, how your style of decision making can work or be improved, and how you can weigh the pros and cons of deciding about cancer treatment.

    31 min

  4. 04/06/2015

    Program 04 - Solving Problems

    Solving Problems describes how to identify and follow the steps needed to solve a difficult situation in your life or daily activity.

    34 min

  5. 04/06/2015

    Program 05 - Negotiating

    Negotiating means talking with people involved in your healthcare so that you can get what you need to have the best quality of life possible.

    34 min

  6. 04/06/2015

    Program 06 - Standing Up for Your Rights

    Standing Up for Your Rights means learning to actively do something in your own best interest. This is also known as self-advocacy. This program aims to help you feel more in control about your life, build confidence to face challenges that seem too difficult to ocvercome, reach out to others, and feel hopeful rather than hopeless.

    26 min

  7. 04/06/2015

    Program 07 - First Steps for the Newly Diagnosed

    First Steps for the Newly Diagnosed refers to the information that needs to be gathered and the decisions that need to be made in the initial days and weeks after you are diagnosed with cancer. In this program, we offer practical guidelines designed to help you take those first steps toward successfully meeting the challenges that a cancer diagnosis can impose.

    1h 13m

  8. 04/06/2015

    Program 08 - Dying Well

    Dying Well-The Final State of Survivorship. Although death is an inevitable part of life, few of us know just what to do or say or how to find the support we need when we are nearing the end of our lives and saying our final goodbyes.

    1h 7m

  9. 04/06/2015

    Program 09 - Caring for the Caregiver

    Caring for the Caregiver was developed specifically to provide resources and support for cancer caregivers to help them address the issues they face on an ongoing basis. As a caregiver, it is easy to be overwhelmed by caring for a cancer survivor. An important point to remember is that you, as a caregiver, are also a survivor because you, too, are surviving the challenges, responsibilities, and life-changing effects of this disease and its treatment.

    1h 14m

  10. 04/06/2015

    Program 10 - Living Beyond Cancer Part 1

    Living Beyond Cancer discusses a number of important issues that are specific to life beyond the diagnosis and initial treatment of cancer. Surviving cancer is more complicated than simply being sick or well, having cancer or being cancer free. Instead, it is a continual process that is constantly changing.

    1h 6m

  11. 04/06/2015

    Program 11 - Living Beyond Cancer Part 2

    Living Beyond Cancer discusses a number of important issues that are specific to life beyond the diagnosis and initial treatment of cancer. Surviving cancer is more complicated than simply being sick or well, having cancer or being cancer free. Instead, it is a continual process that is constantly changing.

    46 min
  • 11 Episodes

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About

The Cancer Survival Toolbox is an award-winning series of audio programs developed by leading cancer organizations to help people develop important skills to meet the challenges of their illness. The audio programs address scenarios for many topics and issues cancer patients/survivors face during their cancer journey. The conversations touch on issues from how to communicate with your doctor, family and loved ones, to understanding complicated financial issues. Each scenario is inspired by true stories of real cancer patients/survivors.

Information

  • Creator
    National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    11
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2015 National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
  • Show Website
    Cancer Survival Toolbox®

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