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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.

These heartwarming and inspiring stories by brave women and men who have survived breast cancer are a must-listen for anyone personally or indirectly afflicted by the disease. How We Beat Breast Cancer brings together the experiences, thoughts, struggles, and victories of unique women and men from all walks of life, who tell the stories of their battles with breast cancer. Their narratives portray both the good and the bad in a real, candid language, sharing everything from diagnosis, through treatment, to life with and after cancer.

COVID changed everything. Mayo Clinic's Edward Creagan, MD, addresses critical changes in the healthcare delivery system and survivorship in this revised third edition of his award-winning book for empowered patients.

Fast Forward to Hope: Choosing to Build the Power of Self recounts Indira’s journey from fear to hope as she struggled to face various challenges, particularly related to her advanced breast cancer diagnosis. Bolstered by her strength of fighting cancer, she fully discovered her true capacity and reconsidered life choices to create the reality she desired. This book is an homage to the journey of life. It is a tribute to the struggle of finding one’s own power, and cultivating life’s trajectory.

D. N. Grace tells her story as a cancer survivor. Still in her 20s, Grace sees her life goals unfolding just as she planned. With a passion to serve God, her dream school within reach, and the love of her life at her side, she suddenly finds her life out of control and turned upside down taking a very different path. In Your Pain Is Not a Waste, Grace tells her story of being diagnosed with stage three soft tissue sarcoma and given two years to live—if the chemotherapy drugs work. Through her journey and after facing cancer, Grace learns how God creates beauty out of ashes.

As a nurse for nearly 50 years, Keith Cox provided expert care and comfort to countless people facing the unimaginable. With insight and sensitivity, A Caring Life takes us behind the scenes of his remarkable nursing career and the moving stories of hope, determination and loss that underpinned it. Along the way, he shares lessons gained from a career spent confronting mortality, from finding joy in difficult circumstances to understanding that true strength comes in thinking of others and being part of a community.

Cancer doctor and best-selling author Dr. EB delivers her rendition of Chapter 10, Higher Ground, by using her intellectual prowess, complemented by interspersed recitals of her original collection of prose, enhanced by commentaries, bonus prose, and a chant for cancer patients. Her unique style is captivating as she describes her passion and purpose for treating cancer patients, treating beyond the cancer by using not only her medical expertise, but embracing her patients’ vulnerabilities, allowing them to share their fears and what lies at the very seat of their souls.

Wie können wir Hoffnung schöpfen und Kraft finden, wenn wir mit Krankheit, Kummer, Schmerz oder Tod konfrontiert sind? Diese Frage beschäftigt auch Julia Baird, als sie schwer an Krebs erkrankt. Im Phänomen der Phosphoreszenz findet sie schließlich die geeignete Metapher für das, was uns in dunklen Stunden Licht bringt: So, wie es die Phosphoreszenz Glühwürmchen, Quallen und sogar ganzen Ozeanen ermöglicht, aus sich selbst heraus zu leuchten, können auch wir Menschen unsere eigene Phosphoreszenz erschaffen.

Knowledge is power, and while in that waiting room, wearing that lovely exam gown, you will be able to handle stress with humor if you listen to this first. It answers lots of questions like, "What if they want more views?" Listen to this journey from one who knows that you need to hold your breath...don’t move...ouch. Breathe. If they don't immediately release you back into the wild, Boob in a Box can help you with all your "what if" thoughts.

After suddenly being diagnosed with a rare form of aggressive cancer, I immediately started spiraling downward. Denial, loneliness, fear, depression, anger, and self-destructive behaviors. My life was a disaster. I was a mess. I was doing just about everything I was instructed not to. All sense of responsibility flew out the window, right along with my sense of morals. Further and further I slid into the deepest, darkest part of my life. I had come to terms with the fact that my life was over. I was going to die. Until I was rescued from not only cancer - but from myself.

Ein berührender Bericht von der Schwelle zwischen Leben und Tod. Manchmal muss man erst sterben, um voll und ganz leben zu können. Dieses Hörbuch führt uns auf die spannendste Reise, die man sich vorstellen kann. Anita Moorjani war an Krebs erkrankt und lag im Sterben. Doch als sie das Bewusstsein verlor, fand sie sich plötzlich in einem von Licht und Ekstase erfüllten Raum wieder.

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.

The Leukaemia Diaries started life as just that, a diary detailing my journey from just before being diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML), to the scary "I’m going to die" bit, to the joys of chemotherapy, getting back to work and beyond. However, with every edit and every conversation with a fellow sufferer, it transformed into what it is now, which is an emotional, honest, and heartfelt account that not only aims to engage, entertain, and inform, but also comfort and inspire.

The book encourages the young to work for realizing their objectives and withstand the difficulties they may face, while at the same time lets the grown-up enjoy the success of a young girl who moves from one continent to another and establishes stability and enjoys happiness to overcome all difficulties.

Passados dois anos da publicação de seu primeiro livro, Enquanto eu respirar, a jornalista Ana Michelle Soares segue inteira na vida. Em 2011, aos 28 anos, ela foi diagnosticada com um câncer de mama. Aos 32, a doença voltou e atingiu outros órgãos, sem possibilidade de cura. Agora, entre tratamentos e remissões, ela busca o que realmente importa: o sentido de estar aqui. Nesta obra AnaMi se rende à liberdade de descobrir que um diagnóstico não se resume ao que dita a biologia. Com mais paixão do que nunca, ela fala apenas de vida.

1 in 8 UK males will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, more than 130 new cases are discovered each day and, on average, one man dies from the disease every 45 minutes. Despite these statistics, and the fact that there are getting on for half a million men living with, or in remission from, prostate cancer in the UK, the condition is rarely discussed publicly and most men ignore the warning signs.

The Smooth River is the remarkable story of how a well-known public relations expert and her husband met her stage 4 pancreatic cancer head-on. With vigor and strength, they deployed all they and medicine had to offer. But in contrast to narrow conventional approaches, the couple developed a far more expansive view of what strength means in response to a crisis for which there are no medical cures. They called this the Smooth River.

When Dr Mary Gunn was diagnosed with cancer, her first reaction was fear and to fight the disease aggressively for the sake of not only herself but her young children and husband. But when it came back - and turned out to be incurable - she knew that she couldn’t live the rest of her life in fear.

Tutto comincia da una singola cellula. Una sola, tra migliaia di miliardi. Una cellula che si divide in due cellule uguali, e poi lo fa ancora, e ancora, e ancora, dieci, cento, mille, un milione di volte; una proliferazione che procede impetuosa e senza freni, seguendo la spinta allimmortalità iscritta nei geni. Una corsa paradossale, che porta la cellula a moltiplicarsi fino al punto di pagarne essa stessa il prezzo, uccidendo il corpo ospitante e scomparendo quindi assieme a lui.

In One Body, Catherine Simpson looks back on her life so far and interrogates how her experiences have shaped her relationship with her body. From being routinely catcalled, objectified and dismissed from a young age, to experiencing severe morning sickness, post-natal depression and early menopause, she has lived with all manner of physical and psychological pains that come with womanhood.