Product Description: If stories are medicine, then this collection will help keep hopes up and spirits alive on the road to recovery. Readers will applaud the bravery of 50 exceptional survivors as they tell their unique experiences with breast cancer. Every breast cancer survivor has a different story, but they all have one thing in common: courage. From dealing with diagnosis to undergoing chemotherapy, facing hair loss and possibly the loss of a breast, these fearless women undergo more than anyone ever should. These stories pay tribute to these women and their battles, and celebrate their victories. In this stunning new collection, readers will find compelling, inspiring, and uplifting personal essays about the experiences and emotions of living with—and after—breast cancer.

A Cup of Comfort for Breast Cancer Survivors: Inspiring Stories of Courage and Triumph (Paperback)

Product Description: When a loved one is diagnosed with cancer, it is often difficult to know what to do. Those who want to help can sometimes make matters worse. Written in a frank conversational manner, this book offers readers specific advice on what to do for a friend or loved one in need, such as offer to do the weekly grocery shopping, pick up the kids from school or bring them to practice, choose to be a chemobuddy, and keep up with bills and other important deadlines. This stressful and uncertain time is difficult for the patient’s family and friends. This book provides the support and guidance everyone needs to make this time easier.

How Can I Help?: Everyday Ways to Help Your Loved Ones Live with Cancer (Paperback)

Product Description: After undergoing chemotherapy and surgery for brain cancer, Servan-Schreiber, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, asked his oncologist if any lifestyle changes would prevent a relapse; the answer was no. Certain this was wrong, Servan-Schreiber spent months researching a mass of scientific data on natural defenses against cancer.

Anticancer: A New Way of Life (Hardcover)

Product Description: Empower yourself with the knowledge to face your cancer head on. GETTING CANCER: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment is the ultimate cancer resource guide. It will help you understand common cancer symptoms and how cancer is diagnosed. It will also explain cancer treatment options, including chemotherapy, radiation therapy, cancer surgery, biological therapy, hormone therapy, and alternative treatments for cancer. In addition to discussing cancer symptoms, cancer treatments, and cancer diagnosis, this handbook will provide information about cancer support groups, paying for cancer treatments, and respite for caregivers. It also discusses minimizing chemotherapy side effects as well as side effects of radiation therapy. This valuable information has been extensively researched in order to provide you with the latest information about cancer, and is organized in an easy-to-understand handbook.

Getting Cancer: Symptoms, Diagnosis, & Treatment (Paperback)

Product Description: Carr spins off her original Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips in this uplifting guide. She begins with her own story—the discovery of inoperable Stage IV cancer in her liver and lungs—then covers four main topics: diagnosis, mind, body and spirit. Though she admits to having bad days, Carr follows her own advice to shake off passive malaise.

Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor: More Rebellion and Fire for Your Healing Journey (Paperback)

Product Description: Peltason, an editor and breast cancer survivor, founded and hosted the First Person Plural Web site project, an online forum for women facing the disease. Their dialogue provides the content for this book, culled from the entries of 800 women across the U.S. and around the world. Peltason organizes the material into three general parts: Diagnosis, Living with Breast Cancer and The Big Picture, with such subtopics as Sharing the News, Being Womanly and Anniversaries and Milestones.

I Am Not My Breast Cancer: Women Talk Openly About Love and Sex, Hair Loss and Weight Gain, Mothers and Daughters, and Being a Woman with Breast Cancer (Paperback)

Product Description: Despite cancer being one of the biggest killers, lifestyle choices can greatly reduce the risk of developing this disease and can significantly improve the chance of surviving it, if it occurs. The first section of the book explains what cancer is, the second section explains how lifestyle can reduce the risk of developing cancer and the final section demystifies cancer treatment in an attempt to remove the uncertainty faced by patients. This book is the newly revised version of Dr. Goyns' previous book, "Cancer and You".

The Cancer Challenge (Paperback)

Product Description: More than 1.3 million Americans will be diagnosed with various forms of cancer this year. They, their families, and their caregivers will all be seeking information about their specific cancer type. This guide from the experts at the American Cancer Society gives them what they need to know, right from the start.

Quick FACTS Thyroid Cancer (Quickfacts) (Paperback)

Product Description: A diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer does not have to be a death sentence. Recent advances in medicine have made this once incurable disease treatable and manageable. You can beat advanced and even recurring, ovarian cancer. Simple but significant lifestyle changes can produce big results when it comes to healing.

Beating Ovarian Cancer: How To Overcome The Odds And Reclaim Your Life (Paperback)

Product Description: Cancer! The diagnosis used to be a death sentence! This is the story of my journey through diagnosis and treatment. It tells of chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant. It tells of visits from my family. But the true story is told in the actual email messages that were sent to family and friends along the way. There were days of despair and days of light. There were times of isolation and times of connection. This book has a beginning and an end. It is a true story. Hopefully this book is one that will touch not just the patient, but their caregivers and their medical team and all the family and friends who are touched by cancer. It is a story of hope.

The Cancer Emails: Running Raw in the Wild (Paperback)