Picking Up the Pieces
Moving Forward After Surviving Cancer
by Sherri Magge, PhD and Kathy Scalzo, MSOD
1-55192-901-5
CDN $24.95 paper
Raincoast
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There are over 11 million people living with cancer in North America and over 1 million new cases of cancer diagnosed every year. The good news is that early detection and better treatment are allowing more people
to live with and beyond the disease. The bad news is that cancer survivors are unprepared for the ways in which the disease can affect their lives long after treatment ends.
Sherri has had five members of her family diagnosed with cancer. Those who survived experienced a particularly challenging and difficult time as they tried to move through the recovery process.
This inspired her to pursue a Ph.D. looking at the short- and long-term effects of cancer and its treatment. For over 15 years she has designed personal recovery programs and trained health care professionals to work with survivors.
Kathy has been assisting individuals, groups and organizations in change and transition planning and management for over 20 years. Building on our shared rehabilitation medicine background and our interest in working together, we knew that by combining
our complementary but diverse skills, we could design a unique and practical recovery process for survivors once their treatment for cancer had ended.
While we were aware that there was little information available for cancer survivors trying to navigate the recovery process, we found the need was even greater than we first thought. We heard hundreds of stories all saying the same thing: life after treatment was a very
vulnerable and lonely experience. There certainly were no guidelines for what to do once someone finished treatment, no bridge from hospital to home. Hence, we were distressed to discover that the majority of survivors were left struggling to address the side-effects of treatment on their own,
often through trial and error.
Whether it is assistance with developing a Healing Plan that addresses the multitude of side-effects or help with making choices that bring survivors closer to living the life they want,
we wrote Picking Up the Pieces to offer reassurance as well as practical guidance to the ever-growing number of people who have survived cancer.
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