The Chemo Diaries


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The Chemo Diaries is an inspirational, humorous look at one womans fight with cancer along with the stretching of her faith. The book is comprised of almost two years of letters to her prayer partners. Through their prayers and Gods presence, she was able to overcome this valley of suffering.




The Cancer Journals


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Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. A Penguin Classic First published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of Audre Lorde's experience with breast cancer and mastectomy. Long before narratives explored the silences around illness and women's pain, Lorde questioned the rules of conformity for women's body images and supported the need to confront physical loss not hidden by prosthesis. Living as a "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," Lorde heals and re-envisions herself on her own terms and offers her voice, grief, resistance, and courage to those dealing with their own diagnosis. Poetic and profoundly feminist, Lorde's testament gives visibility and strength to women with cancer to define themselves, and to transform their silence into language and action.




Chemo Journal


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Chemo Journal Chemotherapy Treatment Cycle Tracker, Side Effects Journal & Medical Appointments Diary, 8" x 10," Over 165 Pages, Notebook ABOUT THIS BOOK: This chemotherapy journal will enable you to accurately document and regularly monitor how you are feeling; your mood and symptoms during your chemotherapy cycles and rest periods. For example you can record mood, side effects, sugar levels if diabetic and temperature. By completing each chart per cycle you will start to see trends and patterns to help manage and raise awareness on how your body reacts to the treatment, and you can share any information with your doctor and nurse if you wish. This decorative 8" x 10" journal contains up to 8 cycle charts in landscape, each consisting of 21 days per cycle. There are examples on how to complete the simple charts at the beginning of each chart. If you have cancer or know someone who does, this journal is a useful gift and self-monitoring tool used in conjunction as a personal diary, to record any type of oncology journey. The charts will assist in jotting down quick notes with ample space to record greater details, facts, thoughts and doodles. There are positive, uplifting quotes to reflect on during rest periods with an 'appointments' and 'dates to remember' section to remind you about medical and other appointments. There are twelve calming images to colour in using colouring pencils at the back of this book as a bonus, plus 100 blank pages for journalling. This journal with a pretty floral design cover, front and back, can be used for after chemotherapy treatment, for recording the after effects of chemotherapy. It is one of the best cancer journals around to monitor any type of cancer e.g. breast cancer, lung cancer etc, to manage any chemotherapy side effects. Another example, it can be used as to review treatment e.g. breast cancer journal impact factor or as a breast cancer treatment journal for breast chemotherapy, or any other form of chemotherapy, according to your prescribed treatment cycle or sessions given to you by your doctor. Keep informative medical records of your treatment, act now and order your Chemotherapy Journal today. Also available in paperback and E-Book Coping with Cancer: How Can You Help Someone with Cancer, Dealing with Cancer Family Member, Facing Cancer Alone, Dealing with Terminal Cancer Diagnosis, Chemotherapy Treatment & Recovery ISBN-13: 978-1544170879 (Part of the Cancer Series). Also available: Coping with Cancer & Chemotherapy Treatment: What You Need to Know to Get Through Chemo Sessions.




Holland-Frei Cancer Medicine


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Holland-Frei Cancer Medicine, Ninth Edition, offers a balanced view of the most current knowledge of cancer science and clinical oncology practice. This all-new edition is the consummate reference source for medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, internists, surgical oncologists, and others who treat cancer patients. A translational perspective throughout, integrating cancer biology with cancer management providing an in depth understanding of the disease An emphasis on multidisciplinary, research-driven patient care to improve outcomes and optimal use of all appropriate therapies Cutting-edge coverage of personalized cancer care, including molecular diagnostics and therapeutics Concise, readable, clinically relevant text with algorithms, guidelines and insight into the use of both conventional and novel drugs Includes free access to the Wiley Digital Edition providing search across the book, the full reference list with web links, illustrations and photographs, and post-publication updates




The Undying


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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




A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Chemo


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This book is the opposite of a misery memoir and is certainly safe to give to cancer patients as a cheerful present. More importantly, it sheds new light on:• Why Kim Kardashian is worth Keeping Up With• What playlists to make for MRI scans• The truth behind the legend of Medea• Bikini etiquette on a deserted beach• What to do with a glut of rainbow chard• What an Oscar-winner should say in an acceptance speech• How to deal with cold-callers selling life insurance• And what to wear on a March Against Menopause (layers, obviously)




Tales from the Tail End


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When she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer, writes Ananya Mukherjee, she was 'stunned and disappointed in myself but quickly found my resolve. I chose to fight cheerfully...with a deep belief and faith that I'd be okay.' Tragically, and for perhaps the first time in her life, her will could not overcome circumstances, and she lost the fight on 18 November 2018. But she left behind a host of memories for those who knew her, and a beautiful legacy for the world--an intimate and inspiring diary of her 'cheerful fight'. It is a book that makes light of the darker moments of cancer (comparing her balding head to the dishevelled crow on her windowsill); gives practical advice on gifts to bring a cancer patient (piping hot machcher jhol along with a good story or two); and gives an insight into what cancer patients dream of (a road trip to Jaisalmer and a gondola ride in Venice). Tales from the Tail End is a book of hope, courage, even sunshine--not only for those living with cancer, and their caregivers and loved ones, but for anyone determined to live life on her or his own terms despite adversity. Peeyush Sekhsaria's skilful sketches are a delightful accompaniment to the text. Part of the proceeds of this book will go to the Yuvraj Singh Cancer Foundation and the Muskaan Foundation for Road Safety.




The Great Secret: The Classified World War II Disaster that Launched the War on Cancer


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The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, the cover-up, and how one American Army doctor’s discovery led to the development of the first drug to combat cancer, known today as chemotherapy. On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey, an American Liberty ship carrying a top-secret cargo of 2,000 mustard bombs to be used in retaliation if the Germans resorted to gas warfare. When one young sailor after another began suddenly dying of mysterious symptoms, Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Alexander, a doctor and chemical weapons expert, was dispatched to investigate. He quickly diagnosed mustard gas exposure, but was overruled by British officials determined to cover up the presence of poison gas in the devastating naval disaster, which the press dubbed "little Pearl Harbor." Prime Minister Winston Churchill and General Dwight D. Eisenhower acted in concert to suppress the truth, insisting the censorship was necessitated by military security. Alexander defied British port officials and heroically persevered in his investigation. His final report on the Bari casualties was immediately classified, but not before his breakthrough observations about the toxic effects of mustard on white blood cells caught the attention of Colonel Cornelius P. Rhoads—a pioneering physician and research scientist as brilliant as he was arrogant and self-destructive—who recognized that the poison was both a killer and a cure, and ushered in a new era of cancer research led by the Sloan Kettering Institute. Meanwhile, the Bari incident remained cloaked in military secrecy, resulting in lost records, misinformation, and considerable confusion about how a deadly chemical weapon came to be tamed for medical use. Deeply researched and beautifully written, The Great Secret is the remarkable story of how horrific tragedy gave birth to medical triumph.




My-Can Planner- Cancer Treatment Planner/Journal


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MADE FOR CANCER PATIENTS, BY A CANCER PATIENT: Stacey, the author of My-Can planner was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma in 2019. She couldn't find a planner suitable for her needs during treatment and decided to create her own. A planner especially for cancer patients, with their needs in mind.UNDATED, LASTS 12 MONTHS: Unlike dated planners, My-Can planner can be started at any date during the year, without wasting pages. This journal includes monthly and weekly planners that can be started at any date during the year.WEEKLY & MONTHLY PLANNING: Monthly plan includes monthly priorities, notes and a symptom tracker. Weekly planner includes diary pages, weekly appointments, to do list, symptom tracker, medication reminder, notes section and more.PERSONAL/MEDICAL DETAILS: A section for all important medical, personal details and contact information which may be important to have easily accessible during treatment.APPOINTMENTS AT A GLANCE: Pages to fill in appointments during the year, where they can be easily found.GLOSSARY OF TERMS: List of common medical terms and their definitions.PERFECT GIFT FOR NEWLY DIAGNOSED: Receiving a cancer diagnosis is overwhelming. With the My-Can planner we aim to help you to gain control of your life again, and easily keep on top of your treatment plan.




Camp Chemo


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Young, vibrant, and very much alive, Camille Scheel shares her true tale of living with uncertainty. Through journalistic updates dubbed ''Postcards from Camp Chemo,'' Scheel communicates her unfiltered hopes, struggles, and successes in the face of what many people fear most. With astounding fortitude and grit, and often with a surprising sense of humor, Scheel shows us that light shines in even the darkest of hours if only we know where to look. Written with tenderness and wisdom, Camp Chemo presents insights for anyone--with or without cancer.