Product Description: Revised and updated for the first time since 1999, this invaluable guide to cancer recovery offers an easily accessible plan for patients and family members. Written by a cancer survivor, the book is an inspiring, action-oriented roadmap for those who choose to adopt a stance of hope and take charge of their diagnosis.

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Plume; 3 edition (February 24, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0452290104
• ISBN-13: 978-0452290105
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #19,658 in Books

Cancer: 50 Essential Things to Do: Third Edition (Paperback)

Product Description: Drescher, most famous for her loud, nasal voice and her role on the 1990s TV series The Nanny, advises readers to "open a mouth" when dealing with their doctors in this down-to-earth account of her experience with uterine cancer. In the book which serves as an unexpected follow-up to her 1995 memoir, Enter Whining the actress describes living with symptoms for more than two years while shuttling from doctor to doctor without a diagnosis. She then depicts the hysterectomy that followed as well as her recovery, focusing mostly on the support she received from her friends and family and her first post-divorce boyfriend, who is 16 years her junior. She also devotes a chapter to the loss of her beloved dog, Chester Drescher. Consistently frank about her emotional ups and downs, Drescher addresses important quality-of-life issues such as fatigue and sex.

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (May 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446690589
• ISBN-13: 978-0446690584
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #81,608 in Books

Cancer Schmancer (Paperback)

Product Description: Miller, an oncologist and director of the Yale Cancer Center Survivorship Program, presents a unique and indispensable book for women facing breast cancer, which features individual chapters written by medical experts and breast cancer survivors. Asserting that knowledgeable people make different choices, for different reasons, Miller's overarching message is that each woman is unique, as is her experience with this life-threatening disease. Because there are so many potential scenarios—based upon the tumor's size, the stage of cancer, etc.

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; 1 edition (January 11, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0801886856
• ISBN-13: 978-0801886850
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.2 inches
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Choices in Breast Cancer Treatment: Medical Specialists and Cancer Survivors Tell You What You Need to Know (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book) (Paperback)

Product Description: (S)tartling, original, enormously disturbing... compelling." Spectator "(Devra Davis) is an epidemiologist and public-health scientist at the top of her game...The Secret History of the War on Cancer is a remarkable piece of sleuthing from one of our most brave and knowledgeable scientists.

• Paperback: 560 pages
• Publisher: Basic Books; Reprint edition (February 23, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0465015689
• ISBN-13: 978-0465015689
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.6 inches
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #45,060 in Books

The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Paperback)

Product Description: As the number of patients diagnosed with and surviving breast cancer increases, health care professionals must focus more on the newly diagnosed and have less time to devote to patients who have completed their treatment. It is becoming essential that "breast cancer survivor doctors and nurses" be trained to fulfill this growing and needed role for patients. Cancer care specialists, primary care practitioners, gynecologists, and internal medicine physicians all need to be aware of long term side effects of cancer and treatment side-effects They need to know how to monitor for recurrence, watch for other types of related cancers, and help instill confidence in their patient, who now is a breast cancer survivor.

• Hardcover: 312 pages
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers; 1 edition (December 13, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0763749923
• ISBN-13: 978-0763749927
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
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The Johns Hopkins Breast Cancer Handbook for Health Care Professionals (Hardcover)

Product Description: After being diagnosed with thyroid cancer at the age of 27, Rosenthal, a choreographer and now a patient advocate for young adults with cancer, crisscrossed the country, interviewing other young cancer victims. Rosenthals text is part guidebook, part true confessions (including her own), as she segues between intimate conversations and sound advice on topics ranging from dating and parenting to working the health-care system and coping with pain.

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (February 12, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470294027
• ISBN-13: 978-0470294024
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #71,590 in Books

Everything Changes: The Insider's Guide to Cancer in Your 20's and 30's (Paperback)

Product Description: "If you love your stricken one, this is your Bible." said Denzel Koh of Brisbane, Australia after he healed his daughter's cancer using the information in a previous edition of this book. A cancer diagnosis always causes fear. All of us have seen relatives and friends destroyed by conventional cancer treatment. Now, thanks to books like this one and the Internet, you can quickly learn what you need to know. You can heal the cancer using natural, non-toxic substances that work. What you need is a guide to cut through the overwhelming jungle of information.

• Paperback: 344 pages
• Publisher: Booklocker.com, Inc. (April 23, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1601451830
• ISBN-13: 978-1601451835
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 1 inches
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,497 in Books

Cancer-Free: Your Guide to Gentle, Non-toxic Healing (Third Edition) (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.

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: American Cancer Society; 1 edition (August 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0944235824
• ISBN-13: 978-0944235829
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #195,621 in Books

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.

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Book Clearing House (July 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1890427675
• ISBN-13: 978-1890427672
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #101,540 in Books

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.

• Paperback: 294 pages
• Publisher: VDM Verlag (June 25, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 363904777X
• ISBN-13: 978-3639047776
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,450,149 in Books

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