Cancer category: 1369 books
by Fran Di Giacomo
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Pearls of wisdom balance hilarious fun in this shameless exploitation of the chemo lifestyle. Fran Di Giacomo shares the game plan she has used for survival, for quality of life and to maintain her career as a professional artist. I'd Rather Do Chemo is an amazing approach to living with the big C....
by Raz Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
A funny, irreverent take on the cancer memoir that combines painful insight with the ability to find humour in the darkest corners of illness and addiction, as explored recently by Amy Liptrot (The Outrun), Marion Coutts (The Iceberg) and Jenny Diski (In Gratitude).
Raz Shaw is an accomplished...
Time for a Heart to Heart
Reflections on Life in the Face of Death
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
“A sweeping chronicle of life and heart transplantation . . . Reminiscent of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It is a Truth Well Told.” (Craig R. Smith, MD)
Quite suddenly, Bob Mitchell became a very sick man. He would endure three near-fatal episodes of ventricular tachycardia...
A Mighty Boy
A Mother's Journey Through Grief
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
A powerful, beautifully written, emotionally driven memoir about illness, loss, grief and learning how to say goodbye.
‘One of the most profoundly moving and honest books that I have read. The author writes about grief in a way that is both clear-eyed and emotionally charged. Silas inhabits...
It's Okay to Die
Shirley Dando's Story - Dying Graciously
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
When Shirley and Graeme Dando were both diagnosed with cancer they began a journey which would test their faith and change them forever. This book tells that story, making use of Shirley’s diaries and writings, along with Graeme’s recollections. To Shirley, healing was never based on an...
The Hardest Peace
Expecting Grace in the Midst of Life's Hard
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Don’t miss The Long Goodbye: The Kara Tippetts Story on Netflix now, featuring Ann Voskamp, Ellie Holcomb, and Joanna Gaines!
Kara Tippetts knows the ordinary days of mothering four kids, the joy of watching her children grow ... and the devestating reality of stage-four cancer. In The Hardest...
I'll Shave My Head Too
A Father's Stories Through the Happy Hell of Childhood Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Spencer was diagnosed with Stage IV neuroblastoma at the age of six. Tracey and Steve did what most parents try to do: provide a fun and stimulating environment for their kids to grow in and reach their full potential. Foster did what brothers do: he offered up his bone marrow and rode shotgun in the...
Whitewash
The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
It's the pesticide on our dinner plates, a chemical so pervasive it's in the air we breathe, our water, our soil, and even found increasingly in our own bodies. Known as Monsanto's Roundup by consumers, and as glyphosate by scientists, the world's mpopular weed killer is used everywhere from backyard...
by MD JD Levy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Primal man benefited from a powerful cure-all that continually coursed through his blood vessels. This substance — made in the liver — protected him from an overwhelming list of health challenges that, until recently, were rare causes of death. Due to a genetic error of metabolism, the vast majority...
Battling Melanoma
One Couple's Struggle from Diagnosis to Cure
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
In June 2013, Gordon Cornwall’s melanoma went metastatic and spread to his brain. He and his wife, Claudia, thought it was “game-over.” But his oncologist encouraged them to look for a clinical trial that might work for his form of melanoma. After embarking on a continent-wide search, they found...
Stay Healthy During Chemo
The 5 Essential Steps
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Chemotherapy works to beat your cancer, but it also takes its own toll on your body and your health. During treatment, it is more important than ever to do what you can to keep yourself strong and healthy. The best way of doing that is to work with your body's innate healing powers.
This...
by Kenneth Kee
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
This book describes Myelofibrosis, Diagnosis and Treatment and Related Diseases
This is my 5th book on Fibrosis which as can be is a very destructive disease ending in organ failure or death or needing organ transplant (Lung, liver, heart, kidney and now bone marrow).
Like all organs, the bone marrow...
by Claire Laishley
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Claire Laishley wasn't particularly concerned when she found a lump in her breast. She'd had two others removed over the years, both benign, and at the time the doctor had intimated there would probably be more. But this time things would be different. The Diary of Delores D'Lump covers the twelve-month...
by Michael McCord
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Laura had it all. She worked her way through college while raising a family, earned her registered-nursing credentials, advanced through the ranks of hospital administration, moved to the town people lined up to vacation in, and fell in love.
That was this morning. Now she’s alone on the...