Cancer Survival Toolbox®

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

April 6, 2015 33 mins
Communicating means letting someone else know clearly what you think and feel, and also learning what the other person thinks and feels.
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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.
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April 6, 2015 30 mins
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.
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April 6, 2015 33 mins
Solving Problems describes how to identify and follow the steps needed to solve a difficult situation in your life or daily activity.
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April 6, 2015 33 mins
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.
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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.
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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.
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April 6, 2015 67 mins
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.
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April 6, 2015 74 mins
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...
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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.
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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.
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