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English
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"For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
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An Emmy Award-winning writer and activist describes the harrowing years she spent in early adulthood fighting leukemia and how she learned to live again while forging connections with other survivors of profound illness and suffering.
Author
Publisher
Skirt!
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
203 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Actress and photographer Kris Carr thought she had a hangover, but a Jivamukti yoga class didn't provide its usual kick-ass cure. A visit to her doctor confirmed her "liver looked like Swiss cheese," covered with cancerous tumors. She entered trench warfare (wearing cowboy boots into the MRI machine, no less), vowing, "Cancer needed a makeover and I was just the gal to do it!" She began writing and filming her journey, documenting her interactions...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A wry, witty account of what it is like to face death--and be restored to life. After being diagnosed in her early 40s 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,...
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Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Atria Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 273 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The author draws on her experiences as both a nurse and a patient with breast cancer to share positive insights about the disease's diagnosis, treatments, side effects, and recovery.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Draws on the experiences of patients, physicians, and researchers to explain the revolutionary development of immunotherapy as a treatment for cancer and how that information is being harnessed to create more effective patient therapies.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia by her grandmother, only to then flee the political upheaval of the late 1970s with her family. Loaded into a rickety boat with three hundred other refugees, Julie made it to Hong Kong and, ultimately, America, where a surgeon at UCLA gave her partial sight. Against all odds, she became a Harvard-educated lawyer, with a husband, a family, a life. Then, at age thirty-seven, with...
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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The world-champion cyclist recounts his diagnosis with cancer, the grueling treatments during which he was given a less than twenty percent chance for survival, his surprising victory in the 1999 Tour de France, and the birth of his son.
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Publisher
Da Capo Lifelong
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Sixth edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 690 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An authoritative guide to breast cancer diagnosis and treatment discusses such topics as common breast problems, screening and diagnostic techniques, cancer treatment and research, genetics and diet, implants, and hormone use.