Navigating Your Cancer Journey: A Handbook for Cancer Patients and Caregivers by an Oncology Nurse Navigator

Navigating your Cancer Journey is a book that dares to understand the unique challenges that exist for cancer patients and caregivers at home, during treatment. This book was written by an oncology nurse navigator to empower cancer patients and caregivers with knowledge on topics like:

Financial Resources • Exercise and the Cancer Patient • Nutrition • Complementary and Alternative Therapies • Clinical Trials • Self Help • Cancer Medications • Medical Insurance • What is Cancer Anyway? • Cancer and Sexuality • End of Life Counseling • Care for the Caregivers • How to travel with cancer • Survivorship and more...

The compassion and understanding with which Marais writes feels like a warm, calming hug from a beloved best friend. Her obvious and refreshing belief in the power of the patient takes center stage and is solidified through eloquently penned patient stories that bring home the message: You are not alone. Marais is a natural writer whose descriptions gently move the reader from one vivid landscape to another with ease and grace. We sincerely hope she continues to put pen to paper!

Angela Wade

Dog Ear Publishing Editor

Jenny Marais RN, BN, OCN obtained her Associate of Nursing Degree in South Africa in 1988 at the age of 21. She has years of experience working with cancer patients. She has a Bachelor's of Nursing Degree through a distance learning program from the University of Dundee in Scotland, and is Oncology Nurse Certified in the USA. She has applied her 27 plus years of nursing experience to the world of Oncology nursing, where she shares her insight into the complexity of cancer care in the USA.

Jenny is tri-cultural having called Zimbabwe, South Africa and the USA, home. She has been married to Robert for 27 years and has 2 children and 4 grandchildren. Nursing is a passion that runs in her family, and both her twin sister Gilly, and daughter Lucy, are both RNs living and working in the USA.