New book offers guidance on transition from hospital to home

Press Release (Vancouver)— An estimated 153,100 Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer in 2006: 2 out of every 5 men and 1 out of every 3 women. Of those, about 45% will not survive. What will happen to the remaining 82,700?

These cancer survivors are told they are the lucky ones: they beat a horrible disease and can now go back to normal life. But what is normal for someone who has just faced death? Stepping back into everyday life is not as simple as it sounds.

Raincoast Books is proud to publish Picking Up the Pieces: Moving Forward After Surviving Cancer. Written by the leading Canadian experts on life after cancer, Picking Up the Pieces is the first book to offer a practical recovery process that acts as a bridge from hospital to home.

Authors Sherri Magee, Ph.D and Kathy Scalzo, M.S.O.D. have spent a combined 20 years working in cancer care and research, rehabilitation medicine and change and transition management. They interviewed hundreds of cancer survivors and combine these inspiring voices with practical methods to help ease the journey to recovery.

Podcast
A podcast featuring Sherri Magee and Kathy Scalzo is available at www.raincoast.com/pickingupthepieces

More on Picking Up the Pieces
Content for media, including sample interview questions and author commentary, is also available on the site:
www.raincoast.com/pickingupthepieces

For review copies and interviews, please contact
Selina Rajani, Publicist, Raincoast Books
604-323-7100
selina at raincoast dot com

About Raincoast Books
Raincoast Books is a Canadian publisher and distributor based in Vancouver, BC. Raincoast Publishing, which includes the Polestar imprint and key titles from Press Gang Publishers, produces a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles for adults and children. Raincoast Distribution is the exclusive Canadian distributor for publishers from the U.K., the U.S. and Canada.
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