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Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 258 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Updated and Expanded Edition, formerly titled "Tripping Over the Truth" A masterful synchronization of history and cutting-edge science shines new light on humanities darkest diagnosis. In the wake of the Cancer Genome Atlas project's failure to provide a legible roadmap to a cure for cancer, science writer Travis Christofferson illuminates a promising blend of old and new perspectives on the disease. The Prime Origin of Cancer, follows the story...
Author
Publisher
Plain Sight Publishing
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xx, 236 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Charge head on into the battle with breast cancer, armed with these outstanding survivor's tips on how to stay sane, focused, and in charge. Complete with checklists geared toward streamlining your new life, this book helps you eliminate stress and boost your spirits with positive thinking and humor. Don't let your cancer control you; empower yourself and ease the transition with this all-inclusive guide." -- Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Hunter House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 132 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Your Life Is Touched by Cancer helps sort out the issues involved with a cancer diagnosis, including conversations about cancer with friends, family, and doctors; traditional and nontraditional treatment options; the often-difficult period when treatment ends; and breaking the news to parents and children, including tips on what to say.
Author
Publisher
Addicus Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Third edition.
Physical Desc
186 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"William Lydiatt, M.D. and Perry Johnson, M.D., have worked with hundreds of mouth and throat cancer patients. They understand the emotional turmoil patients and their families go through after a cancer diagnosis, and they know how being informed can relieve some of that stress. Topics covered in this book include: how early detection leads to high cure rates; symptoms that could mean cancer; the emotional side of the cancer; how doctors make a diagnosis;...
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
viii, 453 p. : ill., map, ports., charts, photos. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Covers all aspects of breast cancer, including prevention, diagnosis, treatment, medication, alternative remedies, coping mechanisms, and communicating with children.
Author
Publisher
American Cancer Society
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Featuring 102 new dishes, this second edition provides practical suggestions to help patients and their caregivers anticipate--and overcome--the major challenges of eating well during treatment. What to Eat During Cancer Treatment offers evidence-based research and clinical information about the seven most common eating-related side effects of cancer treatment--nausea, diarrhea, constipation, trouble swallowing, sore mouth, unintentional weight loss,...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Life & Style
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A veteran beauty industry insider presents the ultimate resource to looking your best during and after cancer treatment When beauty editor Caitlin Kiernan received the shattering diagnosis of cancer, she was obviously concerned about her health. But as a working professional, she knew she had to learn, quickly, how to look her best while feeling her worst. Caitlin called on her list of extensive contacts--from top medical doctors to hair stylists,...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In her groundbreaking and inspiring book, Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds, Dr. Kelly A. Turner, founder of the Radical Remission Project, uncovers nine factors that can lead to a spontaneous remission from cancer--even after conventional medicine has failed.While getting her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkley, Dr. Turner, a researcher, lecturer, and counselor in integrative oncology, was shocked to discover that no...
Author
Language
English
Description
When Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer, the illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. Here she explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer vloggers, corporate lies, John Donne, the ecological costs of chemotherapy, and the many little murders...
Author
Language
English
Description
Eat your way to better health with this New York Times bestseller on food's ability to help the body heal itself from cancer, dementia, and dozens of other avoidable diseases.
Forget everything you think you know about your body and food, and discover the new science of how the body heals itself. Learn how to identify the strategies and dosages for using food to transform your resilience and health in Eat to Beat...
Forget everything you think you know about your body and food, and discover the new science of how the body heals itself. Learn how to identify the strategies and dosages for using food to transform your resilience and health in Eat to Beat...
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxv, 373 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Comprehensive Guide for Patients and Practitioners. Although evidence supporting the benefits of ketogenic diet therapies continues to mount, there is little to guide those who wish to adopt this diet as a metabolic therapy for cancer. Keto for Cancer fills this need. Inspired by the work of Dr. Thomas N. Seyfried, PhD, nutritionist Miriam Kalamian has written the first book to lay out comprehensive guidelines that specifically address the many...
Author
Publisher
Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xvi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Winning the War on Cancer: The Epic Journey Towards a Natural Cure reveals the visionary discoveries of a French scientist whose suppressed research led to improvements in the prevention and treatment of cancer...naturally and without toxicity.
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
x, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Provides guidance and advice to those who have just received a cancer diagnosis by helping them choose between treatment options, select the best medical team, and learn how to be their own advocate.
Author
Publisher
Health Communications
Pub. Date
[2012].
Physical Desc
xv, 296 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Newsday columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning social journalist Lauren Terrazzano championed the causes of abused children, the elderly, and the homeless, truly becoming a voice for the voiceless through her writing by taking global issues and personalizing them to dramatize how they affected individual families and people. Not infrequently, her stories would force change in people's thinking and in governmental policies. Lauren infused every journalistic...
Author
Language
English
Description
""The self-described black feminist lesbian mother poet used a mixture of prose, theory, poetry, and experience to interrogate oppressions and uplift marginalized communities. She was one of the first black feminists to target heteronormativity, and to encourage black feminists to expand their understanding of erotic pleasure. She amplified anti-oppression, even as breast cancer ravaged her ailing body." -- Evette Dionne, Bustle Magazine Winner of...
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