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This book is written from an actual survivor who wants to provide helpful information to anyone, who is going through their own serious health issue or is close to someone who is battling through a major medical problem. The author was a caregiver and then went through his own cancer diagnosis and treatments. These provided the experiences to learn how to recognize and manage the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual challenges that everyone must face during these difficult times.

So, you were just diagnosed with breast cancer - what now? Hold on! There is hope. You can take control of your journey to recovery, feel connected to yourself and others, and get through this. Join Birgitte (Deda) Wilms as she recounts her breast cancer journey and learn how she got through all of her therapy, treatments, surgeries, and turned her experience into a blessing. Birgitte's road wasn't easy, but she is now fully cured and thriving, and you can be as well. Don’t go through this journey alone; listen to Live Well beyond Breast Cancer today.

This book is written from an actual survivor who wants to provide helpful information to anyone who is going through their own serious health issue or is close to someone who is battling through a major medical problem. The author was a caregiver and then, went through his own cancer diagnosis and treatments. These provided the experiences to learn how to recognize and manage the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual challenges that everyone must face during these difficult times.

If you’ve ever been ugly dumped, knocked off your feet, financially devastated, stunned by a potentially fatal diagnosis, or paralyzed by fear, you’ll find comfort and strategies for surviving and eventually thriving in this book. Her surprising journey through the maze of illness, treatment, surgery, and recovery, along with her stubborn daily practice of gratitude, even when she wanted to throw her gratitude journal off a cliff, will leave you laughing, crying, and hopefully feeling grateful, even when it seems impossible.

Being diagnosed with cancer is frightening; learning that the cancer is late stage takes that fear to unknown depths. After a year of brutal treatment, Mo Haque heard the dreaded words, 'There is nothing else we can do for you.' His cancer was terminal and left him questioning the price we put on life. Three years on from the 'small chance' of survival the experts had given him, Mo shares his incredible story: of despair and suffering, of hope and healing, of vulnerability and authenticity. This audiobook is for anyone going through the most challenging of times.

When Henry Scowcroft's partner, Zarah, was diagnosed with stage-four bladder cancer in 2016, their world fell apart. An award-winning science writer for Cancer Research UK, Henry had spent 14 years at the coal-face of cancer research, but now the disease had infiltrated his personal life too. Henry uses this unique perspective to tell the story of Zarah's illness, how he tried in vain to use everything he'd learnt in his professional career to try to save her and in doing so, how he realised that even a career writing about cancer daily isn't enough preparation for what comes next.

In November of 2017, Cort Davies was given just three years to live. He was diagnosed with stage 4 malignant paraganglioma, one of the rarest forms of cancer on the planet. After seven surgeries, radiation, chemotherapy, and experimental drugs, he felt like he was at the end of the road but something changed him one night as he laid in a hospital bed. He realized that his prognosis was simply a haunting opinion, and the true cause of his suffering was fear and the stress of the unknowns.

Reimagine cancer survival. That’s what stage-4 cancer survivor Dr. Mark Roby wants you to do. On December 30, 2002, Roby was diagnosed with one of the rarest cancers in the world and told it was unresponsive to all known chemotherapy. His oncologist suggested he “accept the inevitable”, but Roby thought otherwise. Quickly realizing that conventional thinking would do little to help him, he created his own, personalized treatment plan targeting his specific tumor. And he survived!

Finding a cancerous lump in her breast seven weeks after a clean mammogram was terrifying. But fitness expert and race announcer Fitz Koehler refused to play the victim or allow cancer to steal her extraordinary career or time with family. In My Noisy Cancer Comeback, Fitz reveals the juicy and gory details of her 16-month battle, all while zigzagging across the United States.

Over the span of a few years, I battled breast cancer twice. This is my story - a story of perseverance, endurance, and hope, and of what I learned along the way, from what cancer is to how to eat to maintain the body. A survival guide for women fighting their own battles, this book is also a battle cry and a story of hope and strength. Your life doesn’t have to be ruined by this diagnosis. You can choose not to let cancer define you. You can choose to fight, to find support, and to keep yourself informed so that the unknown that you will face will become a little bit less murky.

Eine Geschichte aus und über das Leben. Wie man mit Mut, Lebensfreude und einer guten Portion Selbstironie eine Chemotherapie sowie den ganz normalen Krankenhaus-, Behörden- und Versicherungswahnsinn überleben kann! Ich möchte Menschen, die vor ähnlichen Herausforderungen stehen, helfen, nicht den Mut zu verlieren. Ich habe auf meinem Weg auch viel über mich als Person gelernt und ich freue mich, wenn Sie mich jetzt rückblickend begleiten und ich Ihnen etwas von meiner Lebensfreude abgeben kann.

Frightened by cancer? Riddled with questions? Perhaps you or a loved one is battling this disease. Do you know where to turn for encouragement, comfort and support? In Her Shoes: Dancing in the Shadow of Cancer is a collection of vignettes, highlighting the stories of everyday women with everyday lives interrupted by cancer - their challenges, heartbreaks, questions, and triumphs. Each devotional focuses on one aspect of their cancer journey.

Is there more we should know about cancer and could we do more ourselves in times of need? Are we receiving the best treatment our doctors can possibly offer? Is chemotherapy, radiation or surgery the only answer? This journey started some nine years ago having witnessed the loss of many loved ones to cancer. The ideas and methods outlined in this book are inexpensive solutions that can be integrated into any routine. Avoiding and switching our perceptions cost nothing and can have the biggest impacts when we become conscious consumers.

Marlene ist 18 Jahre alt und auf der Überholspur: Abi, Jobben, vielleicht in eine WG ziehen, studieren - nur was? Das sind die Fragen, die sie beschäftigen. Bis ihr Leben von einem auf den anderen Moment zum kompletten Stillstand kommt: Diagnose Hirntumor. Bösartiger. Marlene will es nicht wahrhaben, die Zeit zurückdrehen, will, dass alles wieder so ist wie vorher. Erst nach und nach gelingt es ihr, ihren Weg in dem Kampf gegen den Krebs zu finden.

Most of us will be touched by cancer in some way during our lifetimes. Paint Your Hair Blue will empower you, no matter what your circumstance, to take control of your own destiny. Sue Matthews and her sister, Andrea Cohane, take you through the heartwarming tale of heroic courage and the power of love and determination that characterized Sue's daughter Taylor's odyssey through the underfunded world of pediatric cancer.

Cancer is a monster. Aside from cancer itself, a patient’s biggest enemy is fear. Fear paralyzes us. It affects our thinking, decisions, actions, and well-being. For all my family and friends who know me and helped support me through my diagnosis and treatment, they will tell you I appeared like a rock, strong and determined to get through the treatments, to beat cancer’s ass, and to come out stronger.

Rarely does someone so joyfully authentic come along and flash a light so bright, you can’t help but feel a rush of hope. Ryder Buck was such a guy. He was charming and hilarious, ornery and aggravating, and he delighted in his love of music. Nothing more and nothing less than himself, his self-acceptance fueled his audacious dreams and taught him to have faith and just let go.

My Ex-Breast is a 7-episode series from Audible Suno, by Tahira Kashyap Khurrana. In this series, Tahira takes you on an intimate journey through a mad storm called Breast Cancer. In a single moment, she went from praying for her breast to grow, to life throwing her a curveball in the form of a mastectomy and reconstruction. Poignant, honest and radically hopeful, Tahira shares how she and her loved ones chose joy in the face of fear.

In the autumn of 1994, Michael Korda was diagnosed as having prostate cancer. For several years, he had been examined, tested, and medicated, always with the assurance that everything was all right - until it wasn't. But the discovery of the actual cancer was only the beginning of his ordeal.

Un libro que le enseñará al paciente, a sus familiares y amigos, la mejor forma de enfrentar el difícil diagnóstico.