After the diagnosis is given

A library for patients and families across the cancer arc.

Diagnosis day is its own week. Treatment is its own year. Survivorship, or its alternative, is its own life. Patients and families need different reading at each of these points, and what you find in waiting rooms is rarely the right thing.

The newly diagnosed patient who needs to re-meet their own body. The partner trying to figure out who they are now. The patient finishing treatment whose friends think it’s over. The family in early bereavement after a long illness.

Transitional.life covers each of these arcs in its own register.

Featured Companions for this work

Living With Chronic Pain — When ‘fine’ becomes relative
For long-treatment patients.
Your Body Changes Permanently — When ability becomes past tense
For post-surgical adjustment.
Your Diagnosis Is Invisible — When sick doesn’t look sick
For survivorship invisibility.
The Hope — Finding light when the data says it’s dark
For difficult-prognosis weeks.
The Long Adjustment — Year two of grief
For bereaved families.

The clinical concept lookup

The clinical concept lookup spans chronic illness adjustment, body image disturbance, anticipatory grief, meaning reconstruction, and family conflict in illness, useful at every stage of the arc.

Questions

Are these appropriate for active treatment patients?: Yes. The reading is short and undemanding. The Hope in particular is often shared in chemotherapy waiting rooms.
Pediatric oncology?: The library is written for adults. Family-of-pediatric-patient titles exist (the bereavement and chronic illness titles).

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