Cancer category: 1369 books
Holy Shift! Everything's a Gift
A Spirit-Led Journey through Illness to Wellness
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
New Thought Advocate and well-known musician and workshop facilitator, Lauren Lane Powell, discovered she had developed Stage 3C Ovarian Cancer in the prime of her life. When she went within for guidance she heard, "Do it differently." Follow Lauren's different journey, from diagnosis, through...
by Maverick Devereux
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
A brain tumor is a mass or growth of abnormal cells in your brain.
Many different types of brain tumors exist. Some brain tumors are noncancerous (benign), and some brain tumors are cancerous (malignant). Brain tumors can begin in your brain (primary brain tumors), or cancer can begin in...
by Carolyn Mustian
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Breast Cancer is a Mean DiseaseThat Strikes One in Eight Women In Their Lifetime. And now you've got it (or you know someone who does. You are about to embark on an amazing journey with many good lessons and blessings that will accompany the inevitable challenges and difficulties in store. And...
Grace and Grit
Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2001
Here is a deeply moving account of a couple's struggle with cancer and their journey to spiritual healing. Grace and Grit is the compelling story of the five-year journey of Ken Wilber and his wife Treya Killam Wilber through Treya's illness, treatment, and, finally, death.
Back to Life
One woman’s inspiring triumph over a series of terminal diagnoses
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Kathy McLaughlin was a senior corporate executive when she learned she had Hodgkins Lymphoma. She survived, only to learn years later that her cancer had returned — but this time, it was accompanied by a terminal autoimmune liver disease. Neither disease was treatable because of the presence of the...
by Jim Plautz
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
This is a story about a courageous woman who is Fighting Back against long odds. On 3/5/11 Rosann Plautz underwent emergency brain surgery. A nonsmoker, she had lung cancer that had already spread to the brain. The operation left her weak and legally blind, 900 miles from home Doctors told her she...
Rise
A first-aid kit for getting through tough times
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
'A week after my 50th birthday and just as our family was about to move home, something happened that changed the way I looked at life. I spoke to others about how they rebuilt their shattered worlds after very different personal traumas, emerging stronger than before. I hope our experiences, together...
The Language of Cells
A Doctor and His Patients
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
As a surgical pathologist for more than twenty-five years, Spencer Nadler was not content with the distance between his lab and the patient. Meeting with those whose diseased cells he has diagnosed, he offers them a rare understanding.
Hanna Baylan is a woman as determined as he is to confront the...
by Manjusha Pawagi
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Manjusha Pawagi, a successful family court judge, has written a not-so-typical memoir about her experience with cancer. Wryly funny and stubbornly hopeful, this is her quirky take on what it's like to face your own mortality when, to be honest, you thought you'd live forever. She describes how even...
Now What?
A Patient's Guide to Recovery After Mastectomy
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
All the information you need after mastectomy and breast reconstruction surgery so that you can focus on what matters most: healing and staying well.
Why am I so tired all the time? What about these drains? Should I worry about lymphedema? Your mastectomy (with or without reconstruction) doesnít...
by William Potter
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Bill Potter is a steely-eyed killer. At least he thinks he is. But when a disease, which normally strikes small children in sub-Saharan Africa, stops the retired Army Infantryman in his combat boots, he discovers what bravery, love, and fighting are really all about. The Long Walk is the devastatingly...
Choose to Live
Our Journey from Late Stage Cancers to Vibrant Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
This remarkable story of survival—with determination, humor, and joy—“can show you how to turn a curse into a blessing” (Bernie Siegel, MD).
Life is good for Joyce and Kevin—traveling, having fun with friends, holding down a successful Wall Street career, building their dream home...
by Veronica Neave
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Pieces of Me is a beautifully written, informative and thought-provoking account of Veronicas journey from initial diagnosis with the BRCA2 breast cancer gene to her decision to remove her healthy breasts.
by V.J. Norton
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
It’s no secret, I discovered breast cancer at the very early stages. A strong message for the world, honestly describing how indiscriminate and cruelly it creeps into your life and takes over. By sheer determination, I was able to nip this bugger in the bud. I share my frustrations, highs and lows...