Tips and wisdom from breast cancer survivors. 125 women share their real-life experience through treatments, recovery, aftermath, and reclaiming life after breast cancer. Sections include: > Finding the tumor > Dealing with doctors and surgeries > Lymphedema > Chemotherapy and radiation > Tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors > Fear of recurrence > Complementary and alternative treatments > Optimism and pessimism > Support and humor > Spirituality and facing death
Cancer Is a Bitch: Or, I’d Rather Be Having a Midlife Crisis
Gail Konop Baker was a runner, yoga practitioner, doctor’s wife, and lifelong subscriber to Prevention magazine. But right before her forty-sixth birthday, she heard the words that would forever change her life: Just to be safe, I think we should biopsy. It was the beginning of her yearlong battle with breast cancer and its fallouta battle that would upstage any midlife crisis she’d worried was waiting in the wings. Cancer Is a Bitch is her raw, moving, and funny account of juggling midlife, motherhood, and marriage with a rogue booband, ultimately, triumphing. It will, as author Lolly Winston said, crack [you] up one minute, then bring [you] to tears the next.”
Johns Hopkins Patients’ Guide to Pancreatic Cancer
The Johns Hopkins Patients Guide to Pancreatic Cancer is a concise, easy-to-follow how to guide that puts you on a path to wellness by explaining pancreatic cancer treatments from start to finish. It guides you through the overwhelming maze of treatment decisions, simplifies the complicated schedule that lies ahead, and provides valuable tools to help you to put together your plan of care. Empower yourself with accurate, understandable information that will give you the ability to confidently participate in the decision making about your care and treatment.