Oncology category: 2472 books
L'attrape-chance
Le récit d'un homme qui s'est battu contre le cancer
Language: French
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Pour lutter contre un cancer, il est prêt à tout expérimenter C’était l’unique et dernière chance Envahi par un cancer inguérissable, Dominique Eudes se soumet, dans la « Clinique d’expérimentation humaine » de Bethesda, aux violences d’un traitement révolutionnaire dont les résultats...
The Big Squeeze
A Social and Political History of the Controversial Mammogram
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
In 2009, an influential panel of medical experts ignited a controversy when they recommended that most women should not begin routine mammograms to screen for breast cancer until the age of fifty, reversing guidelines they had issued just seven years before when they recommended forty as the optimal...
News from Lake Boobbegone
A Breast Cancer Memoir from the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Question: Does the world really need another breast cancer memoir?
Answer: Probably not.
But writing is the only way Carolyn Redman knew how to process a heartbreaking breast cancer diagnosis and the year-long treatments that ensued. These honest, heartfelt, and sometimes humorous e-mails...
Stand By Her
A Breast Cancer Guide For Loved Ones
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
One in eight American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetimes—over 246,000 women in 2016 alone. That means one in three Americans will be a breast cancer caregiver for their wife, partner, mother, daughter, or sister (and that doesn’t count their friends or coworkers)....
The Elephant in the Room
Stories About Cancer Patients and their Doctors
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
The Elephant in the Room is a collection of short stories that creatively communicate the cancer patient’s journey. The stories, based on real-life accounts, are built around the idiosyncratic relationships between patients and their doctors. Using humor, empathy and wisdom, Jonathan Waxman explores...
First, You Cry
First You Cry
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
NBC News correspondent Betty Rollin, glamorous, successful, and happily married, had it all -- and then she learned that she had a malignant tumor in her breast. Written with wit, warmth, and soul searching honesty, First, You Cry is the inspiring, true story about how one woman transformed the...
Betrayed by Nature
The War on Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Seven million people die from cancer each year around the world, and many more are impacted by this universal scourge. In Betrayed by Nature, research scientist and lecturer Robin Hesketh demystifies the nature of cancer.
Hesketh provides a concise and comprehensive history of both the science...
by CancerCare
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Colorectal cancer can change everything for patients and families. But it is important to keep in mind that treatment advances have led to great progress in managing this diagnosis. This publication provides a reader-friendly overview of new treatment options and strategies that are helping people...
Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers
No More Unnecessary Biopsies, Radical Treatment or Loss of Sexual Potency
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Every year almost a quarter of a million confused and frightened American men are tossed into a prostate cancer cauldron stirred by salespeople representing a multibillion-dollar industry. In this flourishing business, the radical prostatectomy is still the most widely recommended treatment option....
by Edie Jean Burnside-Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
Edie offers her readers a personal insight of her journey with breast cancer. The authors painful journey with breast cancer is definitely a spiritual journey. Faith and hope kept her living a positive life. Edie realized that her journey with breast cancer is not an individual involvement. Breast...
Hearing the Stream
A Survivor's Journey into the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Hearing the Stream: A Survivor’s Journey into the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer weaves together the author’s own story of her struggle with breast cancer with those of five others also diagnosed. Through each of their eyes Chambers brings to life the complexities of this disease,...
How to Run Your Nurse Practitioner Business
A Guide for Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2010
Designated a Doody's Core Title!
*"This is a wonderful resource for current and future nurse practitioners. The information is valuable and timely. This is an essential addition to resource libraries for nurse practitioners."*Score: 100, 5 stars
--Doody's
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Cancer Research and Clinical Trials in Developing Countries
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
This book describes the principles around which cancer research and clinical trials can be developed. Additionally, by describing the particularities of planning and implementing cancer research in developing countries, this book provides valuable practical information for researchers in resource-rich...
Mastering Communication with Seriously Ill Patients
Balancing Honesty with Empathy and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
Physicians who care for patients with life-threatening illnesses face daunting communication challenges. Patients and family members can react to difficult news with sadness, distress, anger, or denial. This book defines the specific communication tasks involved in talking with patients with life-threatening...