Ticking Off Breast Cancer
Ticking Off Breast Cancer

Author: Sara Liyanage

Publisher: eBook Partnership

Published: 2019-09-26

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1916161723

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Sara is a married forty-something mother of two and part-time lawyer in London, Sara managed her life by to-do list after to-do list. However, when breast cancer appeared on her list, Sara's life as she previously knew it, was thrown upside down. Ticking Off Breast Cancer is a chronological narrative of Sara's life from the day of her diagnosis and throughout treatment. It follows her as she deals with the physical, emotional and mental challenges thrown at her by cancer and provides an honest insight into the treatment given to a breast cancer patient together with the impact that this has on someone's life. By sharing many of her to-do lists in the form of checklists at the end of each chapter, Ticking Off Breast Cancer provides thoughtful, helpful advice for every step of the way.

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 Complete Guide to Breast Cancer
The Complete Guide to Breast Cancer

Author: Trisha Greenhalgh

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2018-09-20

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 147355702X

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The book you can trust to support you at every stage of your treatment - and beyond Winner of best 'Popular Medicine' book, BMA Medical Book Awards 2019 Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, an academic GP, and Dr Liz O’Riordan, a Consultant Breast Cancer Surgeon, are not only outstanding doctors, but they have also experienced breast cancer first-hand. The Complete Guide to Breast Cancer brings together all the knowledge they have gathered as patients and as doctors to give you and your family a trusted, thorough and up-to-date source of information. Designed to empower you during your breast cancer treatment, it covers: -Simple explanations of every breast cancer treatment -Coping with the emotional burden of breast cancer -Frank advice about sex and relationships -Staying healthy during and after treatment -Dealing with the fear of recurrence -Living with secondary breast cancer Packed full of all the things the authors wished they’d known when they were diagnosed, and tips on how to cope with surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and beyond, this is the only book you need to read to guide you through your breast cancer diagnosis. 'A much needed guide which is both humane and based on robust evidence.' – Macmillan Cancer Support

Writing Out the Storm
Writing Out the Storm

Author: Barbara Abercrombie

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Published: 2002-10-09

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1429970030

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This powerful and deeply inspirational handbook is for anyone coping with serious illness or injury-be it theirs or that of a loved one-who wants and needs to help themselves through the healing process. Offering her own experience with breast cancer, as well as stories from other authors who have suffered from illnesses or severe injuries-from Stephen King to Lance Armstrong-Abercrombie encourages readers to write what is in their hearts and to benefit from the power of shared experience. Using writing as therapy, Writing Out the Storm is a book about healing the soul.

Take Breast Cancer Off Your Menu
Take Breast Cancer Off Your Menu

Author: Hilda Glickman

Publisher:

Published: 2015-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780572045432

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Every ten minutes another woman is diagnosed with breast cancer. It has become a permanent anxiety for too many women. New medical research has confirmed the existence of protector foods with amazing chemical properties that can change the body into a hostile environment for cancer. This book identifies all of the foods and explains how to plan them into everyday living. It also explains how sleep, exercise and avoiding pollutants can prevent breast cancer and how you can help make your body healthier and more resistant to this disease. Written in a positive and upbeat style the book aims to empower women everywhere to take control of their own health and enjoy doing it!

Better
Better

Author: Amy Robach

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0553392980

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"In this very personal book, Good Morning America anchor Amy Robach retraces the 12 months following her breast cancer diagnosis in October 2013, revealing details about her on-air mammogram on GMA, her treatment and its impact on her work life and family life, and her emotional journey from initial shock and devastation to resilience, bravery, and hope."--

B is for Breast Cancer
B is for Breast Cancer

Author: Christine Hamill

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2014-03-06

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 0349401357

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'The day after I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I was standing in the chemist with a basket in my hand, blinking back tears and thinking, "Now what does a breast cancer patient need?" All I could come up with was waterproof mascara. I put some in my basket and thought someone should write an alternative guide to breast cancer. Step one - buy waterproof mascara. You're going to need it. A few short months later, I found I was writing the guide myself. I sat in bed in between hospital appointments with my laptop, furiously, desperately trying to make sense of this alien world I had entered.' Written entirely while Christine Hamill was undergoing cancer treatment, this book is an honest and frank account of the emotional and physical impact of a cancer diagnosis. It is at turns funny, sad, angry and ultimately optimistic. Written without sentimentality, B is for Breast Cancer offers bite-size chunks of help and hope - a daily pep talk to anyone affected by the disease. It's packed full of the practical information that you really need. Read this book. It helps to know you are not alone.

Garden of Angels
Garden of Angels

Author: Lurlene McDaniel

Publisher: Laurel Leaf

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0307433404

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It is 1974 and the country is still struggling to come to terms with the Vietnam War. In the small town of Conners, Georgia, Darcy has just started high school, her older sister Adel goes to weekend dances at the local Army base, and their mother tends her beautiful garden–the biggest and best in town. But Darcy’s world is soon changed forever when her mother goes to Atlanta for tests. The diagnosis is not good–breast cancer. There is so much Darcy wants to talk to her mother about: the war and what happened to the soldiers who were there; the feelings she is having for the new (and troubled) boy in school. But she can’t. So she finds solace in her mother’s garden. There she can help the flowers her mother planted bloom.

Screw Cancer
Screw Cancer

Author: Molly Kochan

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08-18

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578743080

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Imagine you just found out you only had a few years to live what would you do? From Molly Kochan, the subject of the popular acclaimed podcast Dying for Sex comes her honest, raw, and insightful memoir about love and loss, and what it looks like to take a swan dive straight into the depths of darkness, searching for the light. When Molly was diagnosed as terminal with Stage IV Metastatic Breast Cancer at age 42, she realized for the first time that "life is short" was a hell of a lot more than some stupid cliche. With this new ticking-clock hanging over her head Molly made a decision... to start living HER life. She left her husband and went on a quest, searching for life's answers via a sexual exploration. From juggling dozens of online suiters, to bringing kinks and fetishes into the real world, all while dealing with the ups and downs of her cancer treatment. But then something happened. As Molly lay in her hospital bed fighting through the last months of her existence, she decided she wasn't finished yet, she still had things to say. Molly decided to dig deep wanting answers to her lifelong questions. She pulled out her laptop and finished the story she'd been waiting her whole life to write.Molly leaves no stone unturned, with a sense of dark humor and a bright spirit that will leave you with a satisfying ache. From her days of enduring childhood trauma to navigating her relationships through the lens of never feeling good enough, to her final days of forgiveness where she found enlightenment and the answer she had been looking for all along.In Screw Cancer-Becoming Whole, Molly Kochan takes us on a profound journey into the life of a truly amazing woman who left us all too soon. It's a deeper dive and a perfect companion to the Dying for Sex podcast. Her courageous memoir is a must-read testament for anyone who has ever felt life should be something more, something special, something alive. This is Molly's love letter to life.