Cancer category: 1369 books
When Your Life Is Touched by Cancer
Practical Advice and Insights for Patients, Professionals, and Those Who Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Even those who are ordinarily calm and thoughtful find themselves spinning when first diagnosed with cancer. When Your Life Is Touched by Cancer helps sort out the issues involved with a cancer diagnosis, including conversations about cancer with friends, family, and doctors; traditional and nontraditional...
by Losciale, Diana
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The diagnosis of cancer is something many people experience. The sense of hopelessness and helplessness can be overwhelming, and many need to find the strength to fight the disease. Prayers for Coping with Cancer is a collection of meditations, reflections, and prayers written by survivors of the disease.The...
One in Three
A Son's Journey into the History and Science of Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2008
How close are we to defeating cancer? A “calming and illuminating” blend of memoir and medical history (Janet Maslin, The New York Times).
When his father was diagnosed with cancer, documentary filmmaker Adam Wishart couldn’t find a book that clearly answered his most basic questions: What...
Journey
Making Decisions When Your Life Depends on It
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Follow Anje on her journey from the diagnosis of breast cancer to health. Find courage in every line and humor in every chapter when she relates her confusion and her victories. It is a journey, not a war; Anje refuses to say she is fighting her cancer, instead she sees it as something that came on...
Recovery from Cancer
The Remarkable Story of One Woman’s Struggle with Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
The words slowly sank in—“Mrs. Nussbaum, you have cancer.” So began Elaine Nussbaum’s personal struggle with this frightening disease. Despite surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, the cancer spread to Elaine’s bones and lungs. Finally, she stopped all treatments and began to practice macrobiotics...
by Katherine Bruss, Joy Fincannon
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Cancer can be a disruptive and stressful element in a relationship, and this guide provides information about the illness, suggesting ways to work through conflict to create intimacy and to deal with it more successfully. It shows couples how to solve or avert problems, allowing partners to become...
by Ellyn Sanna
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
A Prayer Guide for the Difficulties Cancer Brings Here’s a practical guide of prayer starters that will help you pray confidently while living through cancer. Cancer patients as well as family members and loved ones will find hope and encouragement through prayers that cover times such as diagnosis,...
Catching Cancer
The Quest for its Viral and Bacterial Causes
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
The idea that you can “catch” cancer is radical, and yet several renowned scientists have shown that it is possible to do just that. Catching Cancer takes you inside a medical revolution and reveals the struggles of the scientists who persisted with their novel ideas despite opposition, disbelievers,...
Living with Learning Disabilities, Dying with Cancer
Thirteen Personal Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
This book is a powerful and moving account of the experiences of 13 people with learning disabilities who were living with cancer. The author followed their lives as part of a 3-year research study, during which 10 people died. She spent extensive periods of time with them at their homes and day centres,...
by Chris K. H. Teo
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The stories of these people must be told and shared so that many others who come after them can learn from their experiences. We know that lung cancer is a fatal disease. After being diagnosed with lung cancer you are often told that you only have three or at most six months to live if you don't...
by Miriam Kinai
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Cancer uses plain and easy to understand English to teach you about the causes, risk factors, symptoms, tests, treatment, prognosis and prevention of the following tumors:
* Ampullary cancer
* Bile duct cancer
* Osteosarcoma
* Throat cancer
by Dr. Robert Rutledge, MD, Timothy Walker
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
How can you heal after a cancer diagnosis?The Healing Circle helps readers to answer this question for themselves. The book integrates science, wisdom and compassion, and offers a practical approach and fresh perspective on how to heal at the levels of body, mind and spirit. The Healing Circle is primarily...
by David Khayat, MD
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
With the huge number of studies on nutrition and cancer available, it's impossible for a person to sort through them all to come up with practical recommendations. Now, Dr. David Khayat, a world-renowned oncologist, has done that hard work for you.
In this international bestseller, Dr. Khayat...
Triumphs of the Human Spirit
Real Cancer Survivors, Real Battles, Real Victories
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2001
Whether you have cancer or someone you love and care about does, here are 48 powerful stories from cancer survivors who prove that it is what you do with the cancer that matters so much more than what the cancer does to you. Grab it with determination and know that a diagnosis of cancer does not define who you are and that you are not alone.