NEW BOOK FOR COUPLES WITH BREAST CANCER CO-AUTHORED BY JUDITH HABER PH.D

Judith Haber, PhD at New York University Is Co-Author of Breast Cancer Journey To Recovery

Breast Cancer Journey To Recovery, is a just published book written for consumers of health care as well as professional health care providers. This new book guides consumers and professionals alike through each phase of breast cancer, diagnosis, treatment and recovery trajectory. Breast Cancer Journey To Recovery is the adaption of the award-winning four-part educational video series, Journey To Recovery: For Women with Breast Cancer and their Partners, a series of unique instructional videos designed to help women and men cope with the severe stress of the breast cancer experience.

Throughout Breast Cancer Journey To Recovery, readers meet real couples dealing with breast cancer and learn how they have coped with this experience. They also meet noted healthcare professionals who provide important information advice and information about meeting the challenges of coping with breast cancer. Readers also obtain important information about essential community-based and internet breast cancer resources.

The book and the series of educational videos are based on an intensive four-year study of how 121 couples dealt with the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. The study first documented couple's differing emotional needs during each of four treatment phases. The study also documented the critical factors that promote physical and emotional well-being for both patients and partners.

"Most notably, the study found that breast cancer patients often adjust better emotionally than their male partners," said Co-author, Judith Haber, PhD, APRN, CS, FAAN, a resident of Stamford, and a professor of Nursing at New York University's Division of Nursing. "The study also found that male partners often enter periods of acute anxiety and distress just as patients are finally growing more hopeful. Breast Cancer Journey to Recovery speaks to women, to their partners and to them as a couple, guiding them through each phase of the breast cancer experience. It brings much needed clinical research to life in a way that helps couples more effectively cope with breast cancer."

"In our research we found that the physical and emotional adjustment of most breast cancer patients and their partners can be greatly enhanced by education, effective communication and support," said Co-Author, Carol Noll Hoskins, PhD RN, FANN, professor of Nursing at New York University's Division of Nursing "These must be sensitive to needs as they vary across the phases of illness."

Breast Cancer Journey to Recovery is published by Springer Publishing Company of New York City.wwwspringerpub.com.