By
Julie K. Silver, M.D.
A cancer rehabilitation specialist and breast cancer survivor, Dr. Julie Silver has written a practical and powerful guide to help cancer patients who are exhausted and physically devastated after treatment. Drawing on her professional experience and personal journey, she offers a step-by-step plan for physical healing, including sound advice on improving strength and fighting fatigue, monitoring mood, and overcoming setbacks.
Julie K. Silver, M.D., is the medical director of one of Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital’s outpatient centers and director of RESTORE, an oncology rehabilitation program. Dr. Silver is also an assistant professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School and on the medical staff of Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals. She has edited and written more than a dozen books and received the American Cancer Society’s 2006 Lane Adams Quality of Life Award.
“Dr. Silver is a remarkably insightful patient and physician. She has built upon her own professional experiences in rehabilitative medicine and her personal experience with a breast cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment. She seeks to make lemonade out of lemons and she has done so with remarkable success.” — Eric P. Winer, M.D., Director, Breast Oncology Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
“A diagnosis of cancer changes one’s life forever. After her diagnosis, Dr. Silver chose to continue healing— this time, healing herself. Her book is a gift to all cancer patients.” — Irene Pollin, M.S.W., author of Taking Charge and Medical Crisis Counseling
“Very helpful, meaningful, and insightful for those who are journeying through cancer, and those who have recovered. Dr. Silver’s book encompasses not just emotional and physical healing but spiritual as well. Her credentials as a young mother and cancer survivor, in addition to being a physiatrist with a specialization in rehab medicine, make her work both authoritative and compassionate.” — Paula J. Anastasia, R.N., M.N., O.C.N., Outpatient Gynecologic- Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles