Cancer category: 1369 books
by Sharon Tregoning
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
What would you do if you had a potential 80% chance of getting breast cancer?
Sharon Tregoning decided to take control with a radical fight-back plan, a double mastectomy and breast reconstruction using her own tummy tissue.
This is her very candid story of that agonising decision, and...
Not the Last Goodbye
On Life, Death, Healing, and Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
At the start of this intimate and moving memoir, Dr. David Servan- Schreiber is returning by bicycle to his Paris home from an unsettling appointment. Following several months of fatigue and fainting spells, he had scheduled an emergency MRI. The results confirm his worst fears: the return of the...
Fighting Cancer with Knowledge and Hope
A Guide for Patients, Families, and Health Care Providers, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
I Am Here
stories from a cancer ward
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
What comfort can an agnostic give people who are suffering or dying?
Looking for more meaning in his work, Johannes Klabbers gave up a tenured academic position to spend his days caring for the sick and dying. He trained as a secular pastoral carer in a cancer hospital, and from the patients...
by Garnet Star Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Hereditary Leiomyomatosis and Renal Cell Cancer (HLRCC) is a very rare genetic condition that was named in 2002. This handbook has been created to help educate and support all those impacted by HLRCC. HLRCC was formerly known as Reed's Syndrome. HLRCC can cause skin bumps, fibroids, and/or kidney...
Prevent, Survive, Thrive
Every Woman's Guide to Optimal Breast Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Are you doing everything you can to make sure your breasts are healthy?If this question gives you pause, you’re not alone. Confusing media and conflicting advice surrounding breast health can make it challenging to know what’s best.In the United States this year, more than 40,000 women will die from...
No Less a Woman
Femininity, Sexuality, and Breast Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 1995
Addresses the emotional and psychological issues that face women with breast cancer, especially those who lose one of their breasts to the disease. Covers femininity, sexuality, intimacy and more.
A Most Clarifying Battle
The Spirit and Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
Part resource and part memoir, this is the work of an extraordinarily courageous and shining figure who finished her manuscript before her illness finally claimed her. A Most Clarifying Battle provides a foundation for the reader to understand the experiential issues involved in living and dying with...
When Nothing Is Impossible
Spanish surgeon Diego González Rivas' global crusade against cancer and pain
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Impossible is nothing. With that as his motto, Spanish surgeon Diego González Rivas takes up his fight against cancer and pain. Using his revolutionary technique, Uniportal VATS, he can remove the most complicated tumors from the lungs through a single incision, sometimes with only local anesthetic,...
by Dick Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
This is the true story of a boy who grew up in a single parent household in the suburbs of Buffalo, New York. He survived two dismal marriages, one involving knives and suicide threats and the other involving a professional hockey goon.
Just when you think it can't get any worse, his father...
Under a Desert Sky
Redefining Hope, Beauty, and Faith in the Hardest Places
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
There comes a time in life when we find ourselves in the desert place of burning questions. Why? Why me? But even as we shake our fist heavenward, the heart whispers another question. Who? Who are you, God? It is a question of relationship, a question we all murmur in the hardest places.
Against...
Bald, Fat & Crazy
How I Beat Cancer While Pregnant with One Daughter and Adopting Another
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Stephanie Hosford has a big decision to make. For her 20-year high school reunion, how should she style her hair? Little does she know, in a few months it won't matter - she'll be bald. And huge. What woman wouldn't go a little crazy? After receiving a cancer diagnosis and a positive pregnancy test...
by Lisa Nicolette
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
The goal of this book is to motivate, inspire, and encourage those that survived cancer, a life threatening illness, or serious accident. Wounded Warriors and servicemen are also welcome. The purpose of this book is to lead by being an example to others. I survived two life threatening illnesses and...
Then Came Life
Living with Courage, Spirit, and Gratitude After Breast Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
The author of Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy dares all women who have had a stumble in life to harness their fighting spirit and stand back up with courage and optimism.
One mastectomy, two C-sections, three pant’s sizes, and lots of red lipstick later, Geralyn Lucas is dealing with...