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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...
3) 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,...
7) 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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Spanish Pubs Llc
Pub. Date
2021.
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256 pages
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"Este libro ofrece una innovadora mirada al papel del agua en los organismos vivos y nos acerca a la respuesta al enigma de la etiología, la terapia y el tratamiento del cáncer. En 1971 el presidente Nixon «declaró» la guerra al cáncer. Inicialmente, la investigación se centró en la genética. Cincuenta años después los diagnósticos siguen al alza y las opciones de tratamiento siguen siendo prácticamente las mismas: cirugía, radiación...
9) Promises
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Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2000
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32 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
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A young girl experiences a range of emotions when her mother undergoes treatment for cancer.
10) Positive results: making the best decisions when you're at high risk for breast or ovarian cancer
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Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2010
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395 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Discovering you are at risk allows you to make informed choices about lifestyle and medical interventions. But genetic information may still leave individuals overwhelmed by anxiety and fear. Learn about women who are coming to grips with the information of their genetic and medical tests.
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Random House
Pub. Date
c2013
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251 p. ; 22 cm.
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A collection of stories includes "Home," a wryly whimsical account of a soldier's return from war; "Victory Lap," a tale about an inventive abduction attempt; and the title story, in which a suicidal cancer patient saves the life of a young misfit.
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A 15 year-old boy goes on a mission to determine if what Dr. Max Gerson wrote in his controversial book is a legitimate alternative cure for cancer. After numerous interviews with doctors, skeptics, members of Gerson's family, and cancer patients, it became abundantly clear that a cure for virtually all cancers and chronic diseases does exist, and it has existed for over 80 years.
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Pub. Date
2018.
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"The scientific data on the link between lifestyle, environmental factors, and cancer risk has been accumulating at an accelerated rate over the past decade: Every week we learn something more that we can do as individuals to decrease the risk of cancer and improve the likelihood of long-term survival. Many of uspatients and doctors includeddo not realize that changes in our daily choices and habits can improve quality of life, increase the chances...
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Sterling
Pub. Date
[2018]
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ix, 229 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Now the Emmy®-winning journalist, nutrition advocate, certified personal trainer, and mother of two offers her real-world strategies for overcoming adversity and systematically improving your total well-being. Your Healthiest Healthy combines her humorous, sometimes harrowing, always inspiring journey with research-backed advice, insights from doctors and scientists, and effective tips into an easy-to-follow, eight-step road map. Her practical advice...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
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438 pages ; 21 cm
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"Lia, her husband Harry, and their beloved daughter, Iris, are a precisely balanced family of three. With Iris struggling to navigate the social tightrope of early adolescence, their tender home is a much-needed refuge. But when a sudden diagnosis threatens to derail each of their lives, the secrets of Lia's past come rushing into the present, and the world around them begins to transform"--
18) Survival lessons
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One of America's most beloved writers shares her suggestions for finding beauty in the world even during the toughest times.
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