Cancer category: 1369 books

El mejor aliado del médico en la lucha contra el cáncer es un paciente motivado e informado. ¿Qué esperas? Todo lo que necesitas saber para prevenirlo, o dar la pelea y hasta ganar la batalla, ¡está en tus manos! El cáncer es una de las enfermedades más frecuentes y más temidas de...

A young man battles Hodgkin's disease and survives--with more than a little help from his Mom--in this wry and uplifting memoir about life, love, and beating the odds. When Dan Shapiro's decidely anti-drug mom put aside her convictions and grew marijuana in her backyard garden (behind a discrete...

New York Times Bestseller “Time is something that cannot be bought, it cannot be wagered with God, and it is not in endless supply. Time is simply how you live your life.” —Craig Sager Thanks to an eccentric wardrobe filled with brightly colored suits and a love of sports that...

À 29 ans, Lili apprend qu’elle a un cancer du sein. Elle partage avec humour et transparence ses états d’âme selon les épisodes de sa maladie. L’annonce de son diagnostic, ses traitements, sa grande opération, ses changements physiques...

I didn’t just lose my voice. I lost everything that I was and everything I had to give. After a first lifetime of travel and books and moving and culture and art and family and friends. After all that I’d become: I lost myself. Just South of the Solar Plexus, a memoir, is a story about growing...

"Regardless of how much money you have, your race, where you live, what religion you follow, you are going through something. Or you already have or you will. As momma always said, "Everybody's got something." So begins beloved Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts's new...

In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to...

Susan Conley, her husband, and their two young sons say good-bye to their friends, family, and house in Maine for a two-year stint in a high-rise apartment in Beijing, prepared to embrace the inevitable onslaught of new experiences that such a move entails. But Susan can’t predict just how much...

"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade." Tolerating unexpected disappointments is par for the course in tough times, but how does one begin the process of true alchemy, of turning bitter into sweet? In this short guide to making the best of things when they're at their worst, breast...

This is the story of my journey from stage four cancer (breast and colon tumor) to good health. A colorectal tumor was removed surgically, and I was told to have six weeks of chemotherapy, with radiation in the middle of the course of treatment. I declined, went home, and proceeded to heal myself...

This is a story of the last year of Marti Speckman's life from the time she was diagnosed with breast cancer until her death much too young at 49. It is told by her care-giver husband, the author, Ray Speckman. This story details the strength and mental fortitutude of a very strong woman...

At the age of fifty-seven, movie critic Joel Siegel both became a father for the first time and learned that he had cancer. In Lessons for Dylan, Siegel shares all the things he wants his son to know-in case he's not around to tell him. It's a story about a life well-lived and about living life well....

Where do you go when the Doctors tell you there is nothing else they can do?   Whom do you turn to?  We do not have all the answers but we know a man who does.  Yes, I am talking about the healing power of Christ to heal you. ...

A remarkably frank, deeply moving, and inspiring memoir by Jai Pausch, whose husband, Randy, wrote the bestseller The Last Lecture while battling pancreatic cancer. "Jai is such a giver that she often forgets to take care of herself," Randy Pausch wrote about his wife*.* "Jai...