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In a world where cancer was once synonymous with despair and finality, a new reality emerges: survivors now live a decade beyond their diagnosis. This seismic shift presents us with fresh challenges to confront head-on. How do we navigate life after hearing those dreaded words in the doctor's office? It's a question that reverberates through the hearts of those grappling with cancer today. While society educates us on the risks, we've yet to master the art of truly living with cancer.

As a diagnostic radiologist who has watched patients, friends, and family suffer with and die from cancer - and who was deeply affected by the enraged husband of one particular patient - Dr. Margaret I. Cuomo has been inspired to seek out new strategies for waging a smarter war on cancer. About 1.6 million new cases of cancer are diagnosed a year, and more than 1,500 people die each day. We’ve been asked to accept the disappointing strategy to “manage cancer as a chronic disease.”

Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. A Penguin Classic First published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of...

This book is a practical guide for those diagnosed with cancer, carers, and anyone coping with cancer, who are about to undergo or are undergoing chemotherapy treatment. It is for anyone diagnosed with cancer or those with a loved one or friend diagnosed with cancer. You know how distressing and overwhelming it feels - so what do you do next? This book will explain the necessary coping strategies on how you can cope with cancer.

Sneaky and often silent, many dental issues may go undiagnosed for years, if ever. Mercury and other toxic heavy metals used in fillings, crowns, bridges, partials, dentures, and implants continually seep into every cell in our bodies creating heavy metal poisoning that triggers disease. Whether or not we know it, over half of us harbor gum infections.

Do you feel like you are barely holding on? Let the golden thread of God's presence be the calm on the other side of chaos. It could be that He is weaving a brilliant new beginning in the middle of your mess. “I know your faith will be lifted and increased with this new treasure.” —Chris...

Invalid teenager Leroy Wiley Gresham left a seven-volume diary spanning the years of secession and the Civil War. He was just 12 when he began, and he died at 17, just weeks after the war ended. LeRoy’s diary offers an inside look at a fateful journey that robbed an energetic and likeable young man of his youth and life. I Am Perhaps Dying adds considerably to the medical literature by increasing our understanding of how tuberculosis attacked a young body over time, how it was treated in the middle 19th century, and the effectiveness of those treatments.

When Jane, a world-famous Harvard oncologist, suddenly collapses at work, the medical team resuscitating her makes a shocking discovery: she has advanced breast cancer that she’s been hiding for years. The results are catastrophic. In Sickness shows how even the most rational people can be nearly destroyed by their irrational fears. Tragic, moving, and wryly funny at times, this is an unflinching portrayal of a complicated marriage and its secrets.

“Where is the handbook for widows?” Mary Kenyon lamented as she planned a funeral for the beloved husband whose triumph over cancer she chronicled in Chemo-Therapist: How Cancer Cured a Marriage. During the ensuing weeks, as she attempted to make sense of his untimely death, she filled two journals, blogged, and read the inspirational writings of others who had gone down the road of grief before her.

Ewan Cameron is a Vancouver-based health researcher that has uncovered the truth about uterine cancer and how the pharmaceutical industry has kept this hidden from the public. After setting up his own blog and publishing more than 30 health-related books under a pen name, Ewan was contacted by a whistle-blower working at a US pharmaceutical company. Some of the explosive material he revealed is contained within this audiobook.

Diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2008, Susan Gubar underwent radical debulking surgery, an attempt to excise the cancer by removing part or all of many organs in the lower abdomen. Her memoir mines the deepest levels of anguish and devotion as she struggles to come to terms with her body’s betrayal and the frightful protocols of contemporary medicine. She finds solace in the abiding love of her husband, children, and friends while she searches for understanding in works of literature, visual art, and the testimonies of others who suffer with various forms of cancer.

After being diagnosed with cancer when she was 32, Elissa Goodman explored holistic alternatives and combined them with traditional treatments and was able to beat the disease. Her husband wasn't as fortunate; he succumbed to Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma when he was only 45 after a regimen of doctor-prescribed chemotherapy and two bone marrow transplants. In Cancer Hacks, Goodman has put together a comprehensive plan designed to offer some common-sense, natural, and holistic advice to deal with the fear and uncertainty so many people face when confronted by this terrible disease.

The highly anticipated second edition of Cancer Secrets carries forth integrative oncologist Jonathan Stegall, MD’s commitment to disseminate the latest, most forward-thinking and practical information about cancer in an easy-to-understand cancer book. Dr. Stegall’s insights are rooted in his thriving integrative oncology practice located in Atlanta, GA. Through hands-on involvement with his patients, Dr. Stegall’s open-minded approach has garnered a comprehensive understanding of which approaches have proven effective and which ones fall short in the realm of cancer treatment.

Did you just receive a cancer diagnosis? Are you in the midst of chemotherapy and radiation therapy and losing hope? As a medical doctor who is thriving with multiple myeloma, I will show you five scientifically proven ways to naturally confront this horrific disease.

By the time she was thirty, Gila Pfeffer was the oldest living member of her family, having lost her mother to breast cancer and her father to colon cancer. A simple blood test confirmed she carried the BRCA1 gene-which put her at high risk of developing cancer herself. Determined to break the cycle of early death in her family, Gila decides to undergo an elective double mastectomy. This memoir follows her journey as she becomes a reluctant expert on how to sit shiva, grows up, falls in love, and enters motherhood, before her life is derailed yet again. 

In this short, accessible guide, Mayo Clinic breast-cancer specialists Tufia C. Haddad, M.D., and Kathryn J. Ruddy, M.D., and colleagues offer their insights on how to navigate this new phase of the journey, including monitoring for signs of recurrence; optimizing diet, sleep, and exercise habits; coping with lingering treatment effects; improving sexual health; managing money and insurance issues; and much more.

Going through your loved one's illness is a personal and unique journey. Author Jelena Spasovski has been on both sides, surviving breast cancer herself and nursing her mother through the same illness. In Know How to Help Your Loved One with Cancer, Jelena offers her CIJ Clarity Catalyst for Healing process, bringing forth your best and most creative self to tackle your loved one's illness with resilience, inspiration, and love.

Lymphedema is a disease characterized by a swelling in the limbs and certain other body parts due to a condition in one’s lymphatic system. Because there is no cure, it can be easy for people diagnosed with the condition to think there is simply nothing they can do. The fact is lymphedema and its symptoms can certainly be successfully managed. There are many things you can do, from diet to exercise modifications to at-home therapies, to help manage lymphedema.

Com a precisão de um biólogo, a visão de um historiador e a paixão de um biógrafo, o oncologista Siddhartha Mukherjee traça uma biografia detalhada do câncer, do primeiro registro às mais avançadas pesquisas, últimas descobertas e expectativas para o futuro, abrindo caminho para a desmitificação dessa doença tão temida.

A legendary New York Times war correspondent delivers his unforgettable final dispatch: a deeply moving meditation on life inspired by his sudden battle with terminal brain cancer. For thirty years, Rod Nordland shadowed death. As one of his generation's preeminent war correspondents, he...