Beat Breast Cancer Like a Boss
Beat Breast Cancer Like a Boss

Author: Ali Rogin

Publisher: Diversion Books

Published: 2020-09-15

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1635767105

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Edie Falco, Sheryl Crow, Athena Jones, and other breast cancer survivors and “previvors” tell their powerful, inspiring stories in this collection. Drawing from first-hand interviews of successful, high-profile women from myriad industries and perspectives, award-winning journalist Ali Rogin brings together an all-star support and recovery team to inspire anyone confronting a cancer diagnosis, along with their loved ones. Learn how preeminent actresses, musicians, politicians, journalists, and entrepreneurs faced a formidable disease and put it in its place. In their own words, the women of Beat Breast Cancer Like a Boss inform and encourage other women by sharing their experiences and advice. Learn how they told loved ones about their diagnoses, navigated treatment options, and managed the work/life/cancer balance. Rogin, too, faced great uncertainty when she tested positively for the BRCA1 genetic mutation at age twenty. She found answers in the vibrant community of breast cancer survivors and “previvors” who also stared down the odds. With her brave decision to undergo a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy before even graduating college, Rogin joined this diverse sisterhood of women confronting breast cancer in its many forms with dignity, strength, and humor.

The Undying
The Undying

Author: Anne Boyer

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2019-09-17

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0374719489

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WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION "The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer,' Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experience of life itself." —Sally Rooney, author of Normal People "Anne Boyer’s radically unsentimental account of cancer and the 'carcinogenosphere' obliterates cliche. By demonstrating how her utterly specific experience is also irreducibly social, she opens up new spaces for thinking and feeling together. The Undying is an outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique." —Ben Lerner, author of The Topeka School A week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care, the catastrophic illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. A twenty-first-century Illness as Metaphor, as well as a harrowing memoir of survival, The Undying 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, pro-pain ”dolorists,” the ecological costs of chemotherapy, and the many little murders of capitalism. It excoriates the pharmaceutical industry and the bland hypocrisies of ”pink ribbon culture” while also diving into the long literary line of women writing about their own illnesses and ongoing deaths: Audre Lorde, Kathy Acker, Susan Sontag, and others. A genre-bending memoir in the tradition of The Argonauts, The Undying will break your heart, make you angry enough to spit, and show you contemporary America as a thing both desperately ill and occasionally, perversely glorious. Includes black-and-white illustrations

Chicken Soup for the Breast Cancer Survivor's Soul
Chicken Soup for the Breast Cancer Survivor's Soul

Author: Jack Canfield

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-08-07

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 145327913X

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Along with the shock, fear and loss many women face upon a breast cancer diagnosis comes unexpected strength, wisdom, and strong networks of sharing, support and healing. In Chicken Soup for the Breast Cancer Survivor's Soul, survivors and their family members talk openly about how difficult their fight with breast cancer has been and how they made it through the dark times with a belief in a higher power and the support of those closest to them.

The American Cancer Society's Principles of Oncology
The American Cancer Society's Principles of Oncology

Author: The American Cancer Society

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2018-03-20

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 1119468841

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Developed by the American Cancer Society this new textbook designed for a wide range of learners and practitioners is a comprehensive reference covering the diagnosis of cancer, and a range of related issues that are key to a multidisciplinary approach to cancer and critical to cancer control and may be used in conjunction with the book, The American Cancer Society's Oncology in Practice: Clinical Management. Edited by leading clinicians in the field and a stellar contributor list from the US and Europe, this book is written in an easy to understand style by multidisciplinary teams of medical oncologists, radiation oncologists and other specialists, reflecting day-to-day decision-making and clinical practice. Input from pathologists, surgeons, radiologists, and other specialists is included wherever relevant and comprehensive treatment guidelines are provided by expert contributors where there is no standard recognized treatment. This book is an ideal resource for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of cancer prevention, screening, and follow-up, which are central to the ACS's worldwide mission on cancer control.

The American Cancer Society's Oncology in Practice
The American Cancer Society's Oncology in Practice

Author: The American Cancer Society

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 727

ISBN-13: 1118517644

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Developed by the American Cancer Society this new textbook designed for a wide range of learners and practitioners comprehensively addresses all aspects of clinical management for cancer taking a balanced, authoritative and, -where possible- evidence-based stance and may be used in conjunction with the book, The American Cancer Society's Principles of Oncology: Prevention to Survivorship. Edited by leading clinicians in the field and a stellar contributor list from the US and Europe, this book is written in an easy to understand style by multidisciplinary teams of medical oncologists, radiation oncologists and other specialists, reflecting day-to-day decision-making and clinical practice. Input from pathologists, surgeons, radiologists, and other specialists is included wherever relevant and comprehensive treatment guidelines are provided by expert contributors where there is no standard recognized treatment. This book is an ideal resource for anyone seeking a practical understanding of the field of oncology.

The Truth in Small Doses
The Truth in Small Doses

Author: Clifton Leaf

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-07-16

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 1476739986

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A decade ago Leaf, a cancer survivor himself, began to investigate why we had made such limited progress fighting this terrifying disease. The result is a gripping narrative that reveals why the public's immense investment in research has been badly misspent, why scientists seldom collaborate and share their data, why new drugs are so expensive yet routinely fail, and why our best hope for progress-- brilliant young scientists-- are now abandoning the search for a cure.

B. O. O. B. S.
B. O. O. B. S.

Author: Ann Kempner Fisher

Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781581825237

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This is a collection of personal stories by ten courageous women about how they are living with breast cancer, not dying from it. Written with humour, insight, raw emotion and honesty, each story details one woman's personal experience - from the shocking diagnosis to surgery and beyond.

Breast Cancer! You're Kidding... Right? Living Life Through the Prism of Uncertainty and Having a Good Time!
Breast Cancer! You're Kidding... Right? Living Life Through the Prism of Uncertainty and Having a Good Time!

Author: Catherine Doughty

Publisher:

Published: 2011-11

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780615498591

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For the first time ever, there is a brand new Award Winning Breast Cancer Book titled Breast Cancer! You're kidding...right? Living Life Through The Prism Of Uncertainty And Having A Good Time! The book speaks to anyone, with any stage of breast cancer, and provides scientific methodology with accompanying tools, decision matrices, guidance and support, peppered with amazing humor through breast biopsies, bilateral mastectomies, chemotherapy, radiation therapy and breast reconstruction. If you want to be cancer free and look hot, naked to the heterosexual male, then this book is an adrenaline thrill ride that will keep you on the edge of your seat and provide a clear and calming strategy to see you from any point in the cancer treatment planning stages and post treatment. You can't put the book down because you will be mesmerized by what is going to happen next as the author introduces you to each and every physician and clinician that she consulted with during her battle with breast cancer. You will meet the Super Hero's, the Kahuna Ha Ha, Dr. Love, St. Liseth, and her fascinating family and friends. Throughout the book, readers will be given advice and counsel on how to navigate the often confusing health care maze, manage the treatment scenarios proposed and make a critical decision eliminating as much uncertainty as possible to ensure survival, and be given instruction on how to communicate a cancer diagnosis with employers, family and friends. The book continually provides strategy on how to determine and select life saving or life threatening treatment planning in an uncertain decision space reducing variation, and increasing survival while minimizing the risk and rate of a breast cancer recurrence. The author will show you how to utilize criteria decision matrices and discussion documents to make treatment plans that will get your life back in control quickly. You will also learn that information being presented to you may be misrepresented and how to drill down to get the answers you need. Finally, you will begin to see uncertainty for the gift it is, while learning to live your life through the prism of uncertainty and have a rocking hot good time as you emerge absolutely stunning!

Pink Ribbon Blues
Pink Ribbon Blues

Author: Gayle A. Sulik

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2012-10-18

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 0199933995

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Explores the hidden costs of the pink ribbon as an industry and analyzes the social impact on women living with breast cancer -- the stereotypes and the stigmas.