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1) The whole-food guide for breast cancer survivors: a nutritional approach to preventing recurrence
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"The Whole-Food Guide for Breast Cancer Survivors presents an integrative whole-foods nutrition and lifestyle plan for enhancing immunity and preventing cancer reoccurrence. The program highlights the foods, supplements, and natural remedies that can help people keep cancer from coming back"--
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"This new edition addresses current developments in cancer research and offers more tips on how people living with cancer can fight it and how healthy people can prevent it. The new edition includes: the latest research on anticancer foods, including new alternatives to sugar and cautions about some that are now on the market; new information about how vitamin D strengthens the immune system; warnings about common food contaminants that have recently...
4) Punk wig
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Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
c2008
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
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When a mother loses her hair during chemotheraphy, a son gives her constant support as he helps her choose a wig.
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"Featuring 102 new dishes, this second edition provides practical suggestions to help patients and their caregivers anticipate--and overcome--the major challenges of eating well during treatment. What to Eat During Cancer Treatment offers evidence-based research and clinical information about the seven most common eating-related side effects of cancer treatment--nausea, diarrhea, constipation, trouble swallowing, sore mouth, unintentional weight loss,...
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New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
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x, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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An Insider's Guide to Understanding & Receiving the Best Treatment, Receiving a cancer diagnosis can be terrifying, and the first thing you'll probably want to know is: How am I going to survive this? Cancer care requires important decisions from numerous health care professionals, using treatments that can be highly effective when delivered properly, but also carry risks. So, how can you take charge of your health, choose the right medical team,...
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
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1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common, except they both have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to make a Bucket List of all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die. In the process of completing the list, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find the joy in life.
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Celestial Arts
Pub. Date
c2009
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x, 222 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
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A cookbook for cancer patients with more than 100 specially formulated recipes for their specific nutritional and appetite needs, featuring a step-by-step guide to nutritionally preparing for chemotherapy and radiation, and using powerhouse ingredients to create a cancer-fighting culinary toolkit --Provided by publisher.
10) Get a life
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A young man's treatment for cancer inspires profound changes in his family.
Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in South Africa, believes he understands the trajectory of his life, with the usual markers of vocation and marriage. But when he's diagnosed with thyroid cancer and, after surgery, prescribed treatment that will leave him radioactive, for a period a danger to others, he begins to question, as Auden wrote, "what Authority gives / existence its...
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Rodale
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
ix, 372 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"We've all heard the statistic: 1 in 8 women will get a breast cancer diagnosis at some point in her lifetime. But there's another just-as-relevant number that isn't as widely broadcast: 76 percent of those women will be alive 10 years later. This guide from America's most trusted health magazine helps women navigate treatment, medical costs, and lifestyle changes and emerge with their physical and mental health intact. Organized to take readers from...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
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3 videodiscs (365 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Suburban mom Cathy Jamison seeks a second opinion, which causes a strain on her relationship with Dr. Todd, Cathy and Paul experience frustration in the bedroom, Adam's downward spiral continues, Lee reveals that he is attracted to 'bears' (large, hairy men), and much more.
14) Torch
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Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books, a division of Random House
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
xvi, 410 pages ; 21 cm
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Grounded in the everyday particulars of life in a small town, leavened by earthy humor, this book presents the saga of a family coming to terms with death--a tale of love and loss, grief and redemption set in rural Minnesota.
15) Cancer rebellion
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Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
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1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A cancer survivor travels throughout the US to uncover stories of teenagers who have been diagnosed with cancer.
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
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274 pages ; cm
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"In this international bestseller, Dr. Khayat provides easy-to-follow?and often surprising?guidelines on what are now known to be the foods most likely to reduce the risk of cancer. For those of a scientific bent, he explains what cancer is and how it develops. Bringing together his own research with that of other major cancer specialists, he breaks down what the studies mean, which ones provide the most solid evidence, and how to use their results...
17) Ikiru
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Criterion Collection
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Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quietly fulfilled.
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Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 24 cm
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"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,...
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Annie Parker finds out she has breast cancer, a devastating blow to a woman who's already lost her mother and sister to the same disease. Mary-Claire King is a geneticist researching the still unknown link between DNA and cancer in the wake of skeptical colleagues and funding challenges.
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