Cancer category: 1369 books
Blood Matters
From BRCA1 to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
A National Book Award winner’s personal journey through the ethical dilemmas and unsettling choices raised by the new frontier of DNA testing.
Several years after Masha Gessen’s mother died of breast cancer, she discovered she too had the BRCA1 gene mutation, which predisposes women to...
Tu n'es pas seule
L'expérience du cancer : paroles de femmes
Language: French
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Tu n'es pas seule réunit les témoignages de 18 femmes qui ont traversé l'épreuve du cancer. Elles transmettent ici leur expérience sans chercher à en minimiser la difficulté. Chacune a vécu une profonde remise en question de ses valeurs et de ses priorités?; chacune s'est retrouvée face à...
by The Wall Street Journal
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Since the 1990s, thousands of women have undertaken a surgical procedure that may have risked their lives.
After Dr. Amy Reed had surgery to remove uterine fibroids, involving a procedure known as power morcellation, she learned that it had worsened her prognosis by spreading a cancer she and...
by Karen Foster
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2013
This book covers several topics including:
- Stages of Breast Cancer - Symptoms - Exams and Tests - Treatment Options - Prevention
and so much more!
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by Helen DeVries
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
In 2013, Helen DeVries received a death sentence – stage IV cancer of the appendix. Her only hope was a drastic surgery that would take twenty hours and require removing the contents of her abdomen and flushing the peritoneal cavity with highly concentrated, heated chemotherapy – an extremely...
Red Sunshine
A Story of Strength and Inspiration from a Doctor Who Survived Stage 3 Breast Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Dr. Kimberly Allison diagnoses breast cancer for a living. But as a 33-year-old healthy new mother, she never expected to find herself looking at her own malignant cells under the microscope. Like many others diagnosed with cancer, Dr. Allison was starving for stories of other survivors. She wanted...
by Therese Swarts Iverson
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
The biopsy shows a malignant cancer. Six words words that changed Therese's life forever... Gone was her future, her family, her life. How many other women had been blind-sided by this diagnosis? How many had felt this fear burning deep inside them? How many had searched for answers and found none?...
Getting Well Again
The Bestselling Classic About the Simontons' Revolutionary Lifesaving Self- Awar eness Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Based on the Simontons' experience with hundreds of patients at their world-famous Cancer Counseling and Research Center, Getting Well Again introduces the scientific basis for the "will to live."
In this revolutionary book the Simontons profile the typical "cancer personality":...
by Angie Gennaro
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2012
Pancreatic cancer begins in the tissues of your pancreas — an organ in your abdomen that lies horizontally behind the lower part of your stomach. Your pancreas secretes enzymes that aid digestion and hormones that help regulate the metabolism of sugars...
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Bearing Witness
Living with Ovarian Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Bearing Witness is a collection of stories from women who went through the diagnosis of ovarian cancer, and treatment for it, only to find that the cancer recurred and any hope of recovery was gone. These women represent a spectrum of ages, ethnic backgrounds, marital circumstances, and professional...
by Antoinette Ratliff
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
In one of the toughest neighborhoods in Chicago and while her husband is locked up for a nine year prison sentence, Antoinette is left raising her children alone. Despite robberies, and a plethora of health issues, she pushes forward and miraculously receives clemency for her husband. But that was...
by Paul Manwaring
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Redefining victory through the eyes of a cancer survivor!
by Ken Wachsberger
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2013
You just found out that your partner has breast cancer.
You’re feeling panic because you will be expected to be her main support partner, her caregiver, during her recovery period and you don’t think you can do it.
Good.
Panic is step one. It means you care.
But now...
The Healing Power of Hope
A Family Confronts Cancer with God’S Grace
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Youve received what feels like the worst news imaginable: CANCER. A dreaded diagnosis, a merciless disease, a relentless foe. Life as youve known it seems irrevocably lost; the future, hopeless.
But what if all is not lost and the future holds promise? What if you could enlist an ally so powerful...