Cancer category: 1369 books
Is Breast Cancer Preventable?
Your Guide to Basic Body Maintenance
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Not all of the causes of breast cancer are avoidable, but with Bernie Searle’s toolset you can give your body the best chance possible to prevent this devastating disease. Searle’s mission is to provide health awareness that will strongly position your body for good health as you age.'Is...
Cancerland
A Medical Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
An Amazon Best of the Month Book
"For all the insight he offers into the hard science and thorny logistics of studying cancer, Dr. Scadden’s most moving passages consider the effect of the disease on the people who suffer from it and those who care for them." —The Wall Street...
Dear Cancer, Love Victoria
A Mum's Diary of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Fully updated to include a new introduction by Lynda Thomas, CEO of Macmillan Cancer Support.
'I can't bear not to be with these three most important people in my life. I can't bear not to be there alongside Mark as my children grow up. My bright, funny, affectionate boys who are never embarrassed...
by Barbara Ramsey
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
BARBARA RAMSEY knew from childhood on that she would someday write a book. As an avid reader all her life, years passed, and the main subject of that book kept evading her. Until . . . one defining day in June, 2010, when brain cancer rudely crashed into the middle of her normal existence, creating...
So Much to Be Done
The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
“What kind of cancer is it?” was the first question Barbara Brenner asked her doctor after hearing that the lump in her breast was malignant. His answer: “You don't need to know that.” Wrong response. Brenner, who was already an activist, made knowing her business and spreading knowledge her...
Cancer with Joy
How to Transform Fear into Happiness and Find the Bright Side Effects
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Readers will be drawn in by the personal details shared in the true inspiring story of Joy Huber, Author & Stage Four Cancer Survivor (in her 30’s). They will be encouraged as they recognize early on in their battle they have a choice in how they respond to everything life throws at us, and...
by Debra Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
For David Oliver, it was hearing “Stage IV” and “not curable,” that made his knees go weak. Receiving the bad news that he had terminal cancer was devastating. His choices, like most persons given a death sentence, were to retreat, fight, or accept it. He chose the latter, to accept and seize...
Diary of a Radical Cancer Warrior
Fighting Cancer and Capitalism at the Cellular Level
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
When American saxophonist and social activist Fred Ho was diagnosed with stage 3b colo-rectal cancer in 2006 he underwent immediate surgery to remove the tumor and began preparing for chemotherapy. Within days his friends mobilized to arrange grocery deliveries, transport, companionship, and housekeeping...
by Dr. Ben Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Written by acclaimed integrative oncologist Ben Johnson, MD, DO, NMD, No Ma’am-ogram! Radical Rethink on Mammograms refutes the medical myths and fallacies at the root of today’s conventional breast health care protocols, offering readers safer solutions to breast cancer prevention, diagnosis,...
You Can Fight For Your Life
Emotional Factors in the Treatment of Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 1980
The reason why clinical science has not solved the riddle of cancer may not lie totally within the realm of the laboratory. It may lie in part in the mind and emotions of the patient.
After two decades of research and psychotherapeutic work with cancer patients, Lawrence LeShan offers new evidence...
One Piece of Advice
Words to Guide You Through Early Breast Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
If you've just been diagnosed with early breast cancer, this is the book to help you through it. It's a wealth of advice from the 'been there, done that' cancer club. Yvonne Hughes was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011. Like most people diagnosed with a serious illness. Yvonne immediately looked for...
by Shirley Alarie
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Delve into the breast cancer journey and beyond in Losing the Girls, a unique memoir differentiated by the author’s cutting-edge nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM)―a little-known breast cancer surgery technique that leaves the breast completely whole. Shirley Alarie shares her story to boost awareness...
But Hope is Longer: Navigating the Country of Breast Cancer
Navigating the Country of Breast Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
When Tamara Levine received her breast cancer diagnosis, in a state of shock, she decided to inform her friends and colleagues by writing to them. That letter was the first of thirteen communications she calls her healing journey. As well as sharing the letters, Tamara tells us what she learned maneuvering...
Hug Everyone You Know
A Year of Community, Courage, and Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Antoinette Martin believed herself to be a healthy and sturdy woman—that is, until she received a Stage 1 breast cancer diagnosis. Cancer is scary enough for the brave, but for a wimp like Martin, it was downright terrifying. Martin had to swallow waves of nausea at the thought of her body being...