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Author
Publisher
Editorial Sirio
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Nuestra comprensión del cáncer está pasando lentamente por una revolución, lo que permite el desarrollo de tratamientos más efectivos. Por primera vez en la historia, la tasa de mortalidad por cáncer muestra una disminución constante, pero la 'Guerra contra el cáncer' apenas se ha ganado. Fung explica qué es el cáncer, cómo se manifiesta y por qué es tan difícil de tratar. Él identifica muchos errores de la comunidad médica en la investigación...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at a cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss and life.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning children’s book creator grapples with the darker undercurrents of his childhood in this poignant and honest illustrated memoir, for readers of Free Lunch and The List of Things That Will Not Change. Benny's life is slowly unraveling. His parents are newly divorced, his mom chooses to move away, and Benny and his brother and sister are left with their chain-smoking dad, who has just been diagnosed with lung cancer. Benny is lonely,...
Author
Publisher
You Live Right Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A ground-breaking, evidence-based nutrition plan designed to reduce breast cancer risk, manage your weight, and transform the way you think about the power of food. According to the American Cancer Society, 1 in 8 American women will get breast cancer in their lifetimes. This year alone, an estimated 330,800 women will find out they have breast cancer. The right nutrition choices could reduce many of these cases. The American Institute of Cancer Research...
87) The bucket list
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common, except they both have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to make a Bucket List of all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die. In the process of completing the list, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find the joy in life.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Widowed Samantha Arias hasn't spoken to Holly Dunfee in forever. It's for the best. Samantha prefers to avoid conflict. The blisteringly honest Holly craves it. What they still have in common puts them both back on speed dial: a mutual love for Katie, their best friend of twenty-five years, now hospitalized with cancer and needing one little errand from her old college roomies. It's simple: travel cross-country together, steal her loathsome ex-husband's...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Go
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"While the amount of information regarding a breast cancer diagnosis is vaster than ever, online and off, what continues to be missing is the explanation behind the options. Most of the data online on medical sites is generic and often comes from the same source. Then there are the patient sites as well as many social media outlets that provide peer to peer support and information. This is important for emotional support but still leaves out the full...
Author
Publisher
Familius
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Cooking Through Cancer is packed with nutrient-rich recipes--some from Richard's own award-winning restaurant--conveniently organized by tabs for delicious food during treatment and recovery. Each recipe is powered with cancer-fighting ingredients, which are called out on the side of each page. And because cooking can be tough when you're recovering from treatment, this book is packed with helpful shortcuts, kitchen basics, a quick-reference list,...
Publisher
Sociedad Americana Contra El Cáncer
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
"A breast cancer resource for the newly diagnosed from the experts at the American Cancer Society With an easy-to-understand, question-and-answer format, this book guides patients through the important decisions they'll need to make, from diagnosis through treatment. It helps women with breast cancer and their caregivers know what to expect, what to do, and how to get through what can be an overwhelming, life-changing experience. This new edition...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Lia, her husband, Harry, and their daughter, Iris, are a perfectly balanced family of three with a happy life. But when a devasting diagnosis threatens to derail their lives, the world around them begins to warp and transform, and Lia's carefully hidden secrets come rushing out.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"48-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others - like her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the wrong man - call it meddlesome, but there's no arguing with her results: With 42 happy couples to her credit and all of them still together, Dabney has never been wrong about romance. Never, that is, except...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"First published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of Audre Lorde's experience with breast cancer and mastectomy. Long before narratives explored the silences around illness and women's pain, Lorde questioned the rules of conformity for women's body images and supported the need to confront physical loss not hidden by prosthesis. Living as a "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," Lorde heals and re-envisions...
96) Beat cancer daily: 365 days of inspiration, encouragement, and action steps to survive and thrive
Author
Publisher
Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"As the survivor of cancer for over 15 years, Chris Wark, best-selling author of Chris Beat Cancer, knows the daily struggles involved in healing from cancer. In this daily devotional, Wark offers nuggets of inspiration, encouragement, and actions you can take to support your healing path. His trademark positivity and energy will provide you with a life-affirming and forward-looking thought to help each day become more manageable and to get you through...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The masterful story of a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets, tested in the twilight of their lives, set across the arc of the 20th century. Celebrated children's book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy--to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels; and even more consuming, to permanently protect the peninsula of majestic...
99) The snow queen
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A heartbroken man turns to religion after seeing a vision in the sky above Central Park while his musician brother takes drugs he thinks will help him compose a ballad for his seriously ill wife.
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A leading oncologist at the University of California San Francisco, Dr. Pamela Munster has advised thousands of women on how to deal with the life-altering diagnosis of breast cancer. But when she got a call saying that her own mammogram showed "irregularities," she found herself experiencing a whole new side of the disease she thought she was an expert in.
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