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81) The midwife
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2017
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1 DVD (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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An unlikely friendship develops between Claire, a devout and compassionate midwife, and Béatrice, her father's mistress, who unexpectedly shows up after thirty years of absence and reveals that she has a brain cancer.
82) Wink
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After being diagnosed with a rare eye cancer, twelve-year-old Ross discovers how music, art, and true friends can help him survive both treatment and middle school.
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"Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first 'immortal' human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
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Six women gather to celebrate their friend Kate's recovery from cancer, where she strikes a bargain with them: to celebrate her new lease on life, she'll do the one thing that's always terrified her, but if she does, each of them will also do one thing that they'd find difficult.
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'Part memoir, part advice, all inspiration'
A practical manual for those, who've been told 'You're going to die'.
What do you do, when the diagnosis is cancer, and you're told 'we'll do what we can, but most likely, you're going to die, possibly within a year'? That's the situation that Tony Dehn faced, shortly after turning 54. This book chronicles his experiences in dealing with that diagnosis, and provides insight and information for others facing...
88) First love
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Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.
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""To live in wonder on the other side of suffering and disappointment," reflects Mark Nepo, "is to know how magnificent and fragile it is to be here at all." Inside the Miracle calls us to leap into our lives with tenderness and courage, so we can fully inhabit the miraculous moments that await us."--Amazon.com.
90) Self/less
Publisher
Gramercy Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In this provocative psychological science fiction thriller, an extremely wealthy man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man. But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origin and the secret organization that will kill to protect its cause.
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Nube de Tinta
Pub. Date
2012
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302 p. ; 22 cm.
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Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at a cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss and life.
92) The great prostate hoax: how big medicine hijacked the PSA test and caused a public health disaster
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Palgrave Macmillan, a division of St. Martin's Press LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
x, 262 pages ; 25 cm
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Richard J. Ablin exposes how a discovery he made in 1970, the prostate-specific antigen, was co-opted by the pharmaceutical industry into a multi-billion-dollar business. He shows how his discovery of PSA was never meant to be used for screening prostate cancer and yet nonetheless the test was patented and eventually approved by the FDA in 1994.
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Maryann Grau
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
206 pages ; 23 cm
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"In a brief two-year period of mishap and mayhem--the effects of chemo, car crashes, asbestos and a hip replacement--the author began a series of email updates to family and friends to keep them abreast of her treatments and to allay their fears that, as is often the case with pancreatic cancer, she had just been handed a death sentence. Those updates, delivered with humor and a delightful sassiness, expanded to include other catastrophic life events...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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254 pages ; 24 cm.
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"Teaches patients with prostate cancer and their loved ones strategies for how to live better with the questions and challenges that arise with this diagnosis. Over 200,000 men in the United States are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year. How they medically combat this disease is up to their medical teams and the latest research. But how they psychologically combat the worry, practical concerns, and all of the changes in their lives? It's up...
98) Mortality
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Twelve
Pub. Date
2012
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"Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers"--Provided by the publisher.
On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour, Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. Over the next eighteen months, until his death in Houston on December 15, 2011, he wrote constantly and brilliantly on politics and culture. Hitchens poignantly describes the torments...
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Hay muchos tipos de cáncer y lo mejor es que tomes conciencia de los síntomas o signos de cada uno para que no te sorprendas después de pasar mucho tiempo pensando en cosas y darte cuenta de que ya estás infectado con uno. Muchos tipos de la enfermedad del cáncer son difíciles de determinar, especialmente en la primera fase, que es una etapa vital para saber si tiene esto y poder tomar los medicamentos necesarios mientras la enfermedad aún...
100) Life as a house
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
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1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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In a final attempt to make something meaningful with his life, George launches a last ditch effort to build the house of his dreams. In the process, he renovates his crumbling relationship with friends and family.
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