Cancer Has Increasingly Attracted The Dread And Fascination Of Human Beings. Non-Medical People Fear It More Due To Ignorance Of Its Causes, Symptoms, Treatment And Implications. And The Medical Fraternity Continues To Attempt Finding The Answers To Their Questions Regarding The Disease Which Is Today Responsible For Nearly One In Every Eight Deaths. Stress, Personality And Cancer Is Probably The First Detailed Examination In India Of The Relationship Of Psychological Factors And The Disease. Mrs. Sumitra Srivastavas Thorough Investigation Of A Large Sample Of Cancer Investigation Of A Large Sample Of Cancer Affected And Cancer Free Individuals Is An Admirably Motivated Study. By Examining The Remote And Recent Stress And The Variables Of The Individuals? Personalities, Dr. Srivastava Has Made An Excellent Start In A New Field ? The Possible Prevention And Slowing Down Of The Cancer Process Through Advanced Psychological Therapy. Stress, Personality And Cancer Is A Well-Researched And Documented Study And Ought To Find An Extremely Wide Readership.

Psychosocial Stress and Cancer Edited by Cary L. Cooper University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology The importance of stress in the development of heart disease is well established, but its role in cancer is only just beginning to be investigated. Recent research in humans indicates that various life events, personality pre-dispositions, as well as immunological and central nervous system interactions, may trigger the cancer process, or at the very least accentuate its development. In this book, a number of recognized international authorities provide state-of-the-art statements on the key issues of the subject. Beginning with a review of the findings to date, there follows more in-depth analysis of potential social/psychological precursors to cancer, and the way in which they may influence the aetiology and development of the disease. The final section deals with the way in which psychosocial factors may be managed in cancer patients, and provides a comparative summary of the various methodological approaches utilized in studies exploring the field of psychological oncology. The book will provide a unique digest of current knowledge as well as a starting point for future research, and will be invaluable to all concerned with the study and management of the cancer process. Other Wiley titles on this subject include: Stress Research: Issues for the Eighties Edited by Cary L. Cooper 160 pages February 1983 Mind and Cancer Prognosis Basil A. Stoll, St Thomas’s Hospital and Royal Free Hospital, London 214 pages December 1979 All about Cancer Chris Williams, CRC Medical Oncology Unit, University of Southampton 404 pages April 1983

In recent years interest has increased in the links between stress and breast cancer, reflecting the growing concern at the continuing increase in the disease. This book brings together leading researchers in the field to review the evidence available.

Annotation This book/manual package provides a clinical framework for health professionals who wish to offer group psychosocial support to breast cancer patients. The package trains therapists to help group members cope with the diagnosis of breast cancer and its treatment and provides empirical validation for the program's techniques. Session- by-session guidelines are supplied in the therapist's manual for each module of the program. A separate companion workbook for group participants is also available. Antoni is professor of psychology, psychiatry, and behavioral sciences at the University of Miami. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP) for advanced cancer patients is a highly effective intervention for advanced cancer patients, developed and tested in randomized controlled trials by Breitbart and colleagues at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. This treatment manual for group therapy provides clinicians in the oncology and palliative care settings a highly effective, brief, structured intervention shown to be effective in helping patients sustain meaning, hope and quality of life.