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The Cancer Guide is a definitive and inspirational book designed to help patients, partners, family and work colleagues navigate the trials and difficulties associated with cancer and its treatment. The Cancer Guide is a definitive and inspirational book designed to help patients, partners, family and work colleagues navigate the trials and difficulties associated with cancer and its treatment. With over forty years worth of experience to her name, O'Dwyer writes about cancer with humanity and clarity, helping to combat the myths and misinformation surrounding the disease in an age of information overload. Adopting an integrated biological and psychological perspective, O'Dwyer highlights the person at the heart of every treatment, providing helpful advice and shared experiences that are able to destigmatize the shame, fear and denial faced by those affected by cancer. The Cancer Guide is an empowering and informative book for all those whose lives and loved ones have been touched by cancer.

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Professor Anne-Marie O'Dwyer is a clinical professor at Trinity College, Dublin and a psychiatrist with almost four decades of clinical experience. She has worked at the Maudsley and Addenbrooke's Hospital and long-term at Trinity College and St James' Hospital in Dublin. O'Dwyer spent more than half of her career working directly with patients who have cancer and wrote the textbook Practical Psychiatry for Students and Trainees on the psychological aspects of medical care for Oxford University Press. This is her first book designed for everyone.

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