For The Women We Love: A Breast Cancer Action Plan and Caregiver's Guide for Men

When a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, it is vital that the men in their life move beyond traditional roles, adding new responsibilities like that of caregiver and nurturer. They can be crucially helpful with treatment, recovery and dealing with a myriad of issues that are sure to arise.

Some men will take to the challenge fairly easily. Many more will have doubts, questioning whether they are equal to the uncertain and serious task ahead. Every man will need information, advice and support.

To meet this need, and offer men the assistance and tools they will need to successfully confront the challenges ahead, Men Against Breast Cancer produced a guidebook for men.

This handbook is a no-nonsense highly-focused essential manual for men who are serious about helping women recover from breast cancer. It is invaluable in helping men develop needed skills, and reach new heights of awareness and effectiveness, maximizing the potential to be both stronger men and more compassionate human beings.

This step by step problem-solving approach will enable you to be helpful to the woman in your life who has been affected by breast cancer.

With the right tools, knowledge, skills, and attitude, all men can be extremely helpful in supporting women affected by breast cancer. This survival guide distills what is most important to some key strategic interventions that will lead to a deeper understanding of what the woman and you may experience and more importantly, to meaningful activities.
It is not a long list of superficial social niceties and personalized emotive stories, but a highly structured road map based on many years of practical clinical experience and scientific research as to how men can best help women to negotiate the many complex problems and disruptions caused by breast cancer.

This book adds to your existing strengths and problem solving abilities to walk you through new ways to use your intelligence, creativity and courage.

Although the skills you will refine and learn through the information and exercises in this book will help you to support the woman with breast cancer, your own functioning will also be enhanced as you become an even better problem-solver as your creativity, optimism, confidence, and courage increase. The benefits to the woman in your life, others who see you taking on challenges in an honest, creative, hopeful, and courageous manner will all be changed.

You are cordially invited to assume your rightful position in leading the effort to humanize the breast cancer experience for the woman you love. You can do this by enhancing your present strengths and learning new ways to be an effective man who makes the commitment to control his own fear in order to role-model commitment, support, and effective problem-solving. Welcome aboard, you have just taken the first step -- and you are very much needed!