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Our aim with this narrative is to share our journey through the labyrinth of cancer treatment—the decisions we faced, the paths we chose, and, most importantly, the lessons we learned. We hope to offer guidance, support, and perhaps a sense of solidarity to others who find themselves on a similar journey. This is not your typical medical guide; it is a well-researched companion for every aspect of your cancer journey and a deeply personal account of battling cancer from the perspective of a spouse.

Grab your martini and pull up your barstool.... Here is the behind-closed-doors, ins-and-outs of living life to the fullest as you or someone you know and love goes through light to medium breast cancer to come out stronger, prettier, happier, and healthier than ever before! This audiobook has practical advice about sex, wigs, medical appointments, and gift-giving suggestions.... A must-have!

The Gift of Cancer: A Miraculous Journey to Healing speaks to anyone on a journey of wellbeing, whether suffering from a life-threatening disease or merely desiring to live a better, more fulfilling life. After Brenda's third cancer diagnosis and being told she had a year to live, she boldly stepped away from the accepted medical model, said "no" to chemotherapy, and chose alternative treatment.

This is a practical guide for those diagnosed with cancer, carers, anyone coping with cancer, and those who are about to undergo or are undergoing chemotherapy treatment. It is for anyone diagnosed with cancer or those with a loved one or friend diagnosed with cancer.

Almost daily, headlines announce newly discovered links between cancers and their genetic causes. Science journalist Jessica Wapner vividly relates the backstory behind those headlines, reconstructing the crucial breakthroughs, explaining the science behind them, and giving due to the dozens of researchers, doctors, and patients whose curiosity and determination restored the promise of a future to the more than 50,000 people diagnosed each year with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML).

Information is everywhere, and yet many women still don’t truly understand how our bodies work and specifically how our lower genital tract works. Dr Anita Mitra, aka The Gynae Geek, believes that we can be empowered about our health only when we have accurate information. This audiobook will be that source. This audiobook takes you from your first period to the onset of menopause and explains everything along the way.

In Purgatory to Paradise, award-winning designer Mahwish Syed celebrates beauty as a vehicle for healing. When Mahwish was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019, she faced a crossroads. She could run from the fear, the distress, and the ominous history the word "cancer" holds in our imagination. Or she could walk proudly into illness to find her way through to wellness, remerging from her personal underworld empowered and burnished like many of mythology’s greatest heroines.

Through the lens of the natural world around her, the young cancer survivor reveals the intensely private and deeply emotional aspects of fighting for her life. Sometimes with a pinch of humor but always with raw honesty, she holds on to bright hope that warmly invites you to share in her journey.

Every year, 18 million people worldwide are diagnosed with cancer. If you, or your loved ones, are one of them, you know exactly how overwhelming, scary, and confusing it is to navigate the journey through diagnosis, treatment, prognoses, and all their accompanying emotions. Entrepreneur, business leader, IRONMAN triathlete, and five-time cancer survivor Bill C. Potts has waged a 20-year battle against the disease. In this valuable patient and caregiver guide, he shares his personal cancer story, and those of others, outlining everything you need to know to take on this fight.

No two men are alike, and there will be variations in progress with each individual situation, but there are key things that are common amongst most men who have had the radical prostatectomy. By following simple directions and practicing simple techniques, you have a better chance of having a satisfying sex life after your surgery. This audiobook covers some of the techniques, methods, and devices used to restore satisfying sex to men after surgery.

Ewan Cameron is a Vancouver-based health researcher that has uncovered the truth about cervical cancer and how the pharmaceutical industry has kept this hidden from the public. A graduate of the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, he completed his journalism studies in the early 2000's before joining a local newspaper, where he became disillusioned by his editor's refusal to publish health-related and pollution-related news stories. The reason? They would upset their corporate clients on which the newspaper depended for advertising revenue.

When Travis Brady was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer, she sought advice from friends, and their friends, and their friends of friends—women who had been treated before her. She needed tips to make this process smoother, gentler, and more manageable. With this book, Travis offers you all the information she wished she had when she was first diagnosed—tips and practices that made her feel more in control in an uncontrollable situation.

With two young boys, a new lecturer position, and all the commitments of an active life, Ros Ben-Moshe had no plans for a tumor to take over her life. Yet after the news came on her 43rd birthday, medical appointments turned into hours of surgery, casual conversations disappeared, and even her children started asking questions. In recovery rooms, as the clock slowly ticks, Ros Ben-Moshe starts writing. Through ups and downs, she tells it all, in an honest account of fighting the Big C, or should we say the small c?

After being diagnosed in her early forties with metastatic melanoma - a "rapidly fatal" form of cancer - journalist and mother of two Mary Elizabeth Williams finds herself in a race against the clock. She takes a once-in-a-lifetime chance and joins a clinical trial for immunotherapy, a revolutionary drug regimen that trains the body to vanquish malignant cells. Astonishingly, her cancer disappears entirely in just a few weeks. But at the same time, her best friend embarks on a cancer journey of her own - with very different results.

Shortly before he passed away, on January 4, 2015, Stuart Scott completed work on this memoir. It was both a labor of love and a love letter to life itself. Not only did Stuart relate his personal story - his childhood in North Carolina, his supportive family, his athletic escapades, his on-the-job training as a fledgling sportscaster, his being hired and eventual triumphs at ESPN - but he shared his intimate struggles to keep his story going.

Cancer patients may suffer with Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD) at any time post transplant. This highly regarded book, by the National Bone Marrow Transplant Link, www.nbmtlink.org, covers it all and educates survivors, loved ones, and health care professionals of what to look for and how to treat acute and chronic GVHD post bone marrow/stem cell transplant. This popular book brings together the knowledge of many experts in the field. There are also quotes of inspiration from survivors throughout the book.

"C'est un cancer !" Pour qui a pu l'entendre prononcée de la bouche d'un médecin, cette phrase est toujours terrifiante - pour le patient comme pour son entourage. Et si la maladie n'avait aujourd'hui plus rien d'irrémédiable ?

Optimizing Radiation Therapy is designed to help maximize the effectiveness of radiation treatment while minimizing or eliminating any side effects. As you listen, learn to use the power of focused concentration, guided imagery, deep relaxation, and other mind tools to manage the reactions and responses of your body. In addition to reducing side effects, you will focus upon directing the radiation you receive toward the disease cells instead of your healthy cells.

Forget everything you think you know about supporting and caring for a loved one with cancer. Assume that you don’t know the journey that lies ahead, because unless you’ve already been on this path, you will not know the challenges and the joys. This handbook will provide you with suggestions for creating smooth and organized methods of assisting someone who is battling cancer, and also help you to discover that even through the stress of it all, there are still many joys to be had and much to be grateful for.

Cancer rates continue to skyrocket, and the overall survival rate for stage IV cancer patients in the United States is a grim 2.1 percent. Clearly, the extensive use of expensive - sometimes ineffective - toxins in conventional oncology protocols is a failing strategy. Even the few survivors of these harsh slash-and-burn treatments can have a dismal quality of life, suffering with ailments such as nerve damage, heart muscle disease, and liver and kidney failure.