Cancer category: 1369 books

Consultation with the Oncologist: Pancreatic CancerOncologist: Oh, you stay in Sea View. What are you working as?Patient: I am a forex trader in a bank.Onco: Do you buy health insurance?P: Yes, I did.He asked me to lie down. Checked here and checked there. He saw the scans. He put on his computer...

Consultation with the Oncologist: Pancreatic CancerOncologist: Oh, you stay in Sea View. What are you working as?Patient: I am a forex trader in a bank.Onco: Do you buy health insurance?P: Yes, I did.He asked me to lie down. Checked here and checked there. He saw the scans. He put on his computer...

Consultation with the Oncologist: Pancreatic CancerOncologist: Oh, you stay in Sea View. What are you working as?Patient: I am a forex trader in a bank.Onco: Do you buy health insurance?P: Yes, I did.He asked me to lie down. Checked here and checked there. He saw the scans. He put on his computer...

Little Asia learns the sad news that mommy has breast cancer. Her family fights to keep it together and  bravely face the disease as one. Then, suddenly it happens - Where's Mommy's Hair? The Ever Digital Media Group, LLC is proud to announce the release of our new children’s book,...

Michael has an absolute passion and belief in people’s ability to change direction and become who they truly want to be and achieve success. This passion stems from his own story … Before Michael was even one year old, he was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer of the central nervous system –...

As women quickly discover, their life when treatment ends is very different from what it was before their diagnosis. Often exhausted, anxious, and emotionally volatile, they are beset by physical discomforts, fearful of intimacy, afraid for their children, worried about recurrence. Anticipating a...

On April 19, 1999, Virginia Garner swallowed capsules of an experimental drug now known as Gleevec and became one of the first few people to take an effective dose of this miracle drug that would change not only the history of chronic myelogenous leukemia, but the history of cancer as a whole.Even...

Living with breast cancer can be absurd. Often, though, the absurdities are kept behind the curtain and shared only with other women living in Cancerland—the tactless comment from a co-worker about how attractive we used to be when we still had hair, breast implants that explode or prostheses that...

This is a moving and realistic look at what it was like to care for children with cancer, particularly leukemia, on night shift in the Hematology-Oncology unit at one of the nation’s top children’s hospitals. Here are some quotations from the book. The first describes how I felt when I...

Finger up the Bum is the no-holds-barred, too-much-information guide to everything you didn’t want to know about Michael Izen’s prostate cancer. Who is Michael Izen? Good question. In his forties, Mike was a happy family man who rarely got sick. Like most men, he wasn’t a fan of dropping...

When an X-ray of a sore arm quickly leads to a diagnosis of Stage IV kidney cancer—one which would soon affect his bones, his lungs, lymph nodes, and brain—Peter Rooney’s life will never be the same. Faced with the prognosis of an incurable disease and armed only with the will to fight back,...

At age forty-one Dawn Schiller begrudgingly had her first mammogram. Though she had no known family history of breast cancer her offspring would forever more depict a different story. While disease was familiar to her family, with her husband’s diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis and her father’s...

Hilarious and heartbreaking, profane and profound, It Takes a Worried Man is the true story of a young husband and father whose life is changed forever by his wife’s breast cancer diagnosis. Following Brendan Halpin’s cranky, irreverent and lustful thoughts through the diagnosis and treatment...

This book is for families who have experience a loved one close or near with Pancreatic Cancer. This book takes you on a long journey from the beginning to end of one's life. One who went from dancing and shopping, to the diagnosis to dying...The steps are so real and still unbelievable. But with faith and family...one can walk through the storm...