**Meet the editor**

Dr Ravinder Mohan, MD, PhD teaches and practices family medicine in Virginia and also works as a hospitalist physician. He became interested in research on health-related quality of life in Belgium, where he followed clinical outcomes in heart surgery patients. He later used similar methods in Virginia, to evaluate the quality of life of patients who had knee arthritis, and

subsequently of patients before and after treatment of localized prostate cancer. Dr. Mohan's research has been published in over 35 high-impact factor peer-reviewed journals and he has also contributed to chapters in five books.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 2 **Body Image and Cancer 13**  Hanne Konradsen

Chapter 4 **Surgical Prevention of Arm** 

Chapter 3 **Changes in Body Image in Women** 

and Francesco Boccardo

Chapter 5 **Chemotherapy-Induced Alopecia 53** 

J.M. Ussher, J. Perz, E. Gilbert, Y. Hawkins and W.K.T. Wong

Chapter 7 **Cancer-Associated Immune Deficiency:** 

Chapter 8 **Physical Activity and Cancer:** 

Duclos Martine

Karen Y. Wonders

Chapter 1 **Living With and Beyond Cancer: New Challenges 1**  Neel Bhuva, Sonia P. Li and Jane Maher

**with Early Stage Breast Cancer 27** 

Jan A. Roukema and Jolanda De Vries

Corradino Campisi, Corrado C. Campisi

Sudjit Luanpitpong and Yon Rojanasakul

Chapter 6 **Sexuality and Intimacy in the Context of Cancer 73** 

**It is Never Too Late to Get Moving! 109** 

Chapter 9 **The Role of Exercise in Cancer Survivorship 125** 

**A Form of Accelerated Immunosenescence? 95**  Chia-Ming Chang, Chien-Liang Wu and Yen-Ta Lu

Brenda L. Den Oudsten, Alida F.W. Van der Steeg,

**Lymphedema in Breast Cancer Treatment 43** 
