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We have all been touched by cancer in some way; this audiobook serves many audiences and points of view. The cancer patient, medical professional, blood donor, and anybody who has been affected by cancer will find something interesting and informative from their perspective. Cancer treatment including blood and platelet transfusions, chemotherapy, consolidation chemotherapy, and resulting nadir issues are explained.

El cáncer de mama es la proliferación rápida y descontrolada de células con genes mutados. Estos suprimen o estimulan la continuidad del ciclo celular de los tejidos de las glándulas mamarias. Algunas veces el cáncer de mama se encuentra en los ductos o en los acinos, sin invadir los tejidos vecinos. En ese caso reciben el nombre de carcinomas in situ.

When Mary Potter Kenyon's husband David was diagnosed with cancer she searched libraries and bookstores for books on cancer and the caregiving experience. What she discovered was a plethora of technical and medically-oriented books or those written by a caregiver whose loved one had died, a scenario she refused to contemplate.

There has been a great amount of research performed on how pH levels affect cancer cells within the body. According to the American Cancer Society, the interests of how cancer is affected by the pH levels within the body came about from the observation that in regions of the world where a high concentration of alkali metals were found in the soil, there were also low rates of cancer. Since this discovery, much evidence has shown there to be a link between the pH level of a person's body and the development of cancer.

The biggest risk factor for breast cancer is simply being a woman. Madhulika Sikka's A Breast Cancer Alphabet offers a new way to live with and plan past the hardest diagnosis that most women will ever receive: a personal, practical, and deeply informative look at the road from diagnosis to treatment and beyond. What Madhulika Sikka didn't foresee when initially diagnosed, and what this audiobook brings to life so vividly, are the unexpected and minute challenges that make navigating the world of breast cancer all the trickier.

This audiobook tells a story of one man's battle with Prostate Cancer. It is a story about physical as well as emotional struggles and the woman who stood by his side all the way through. Suffice it to say it could well be a disease with a love story, or a love story with a disease. Listen about prostate cancer symptoms and what to expect from diagnosis to treatment from someone who have been there and back. The prostate cancer treatment Lloyd Martin opted for was the Da Vinci Method of surgery. See why he thinks this is the best.

When professional speaker and songwriter Joy Huber was diagnosed with stage four cancer at the young age of 33, she didn't choose to stay angry. She chose to fight using the tremendous power of positivity and lots of humor, even as she went from having shoulder-length hair at diagnosis to bald in six weeks. She heard the word remission less than six months after her diagnosis and after six intense rounds of chemotherapy.

Imagery meditations soothe and comfort. Guided imagery encourages a woman to listen to her heart, to overcome fears, to relax and reduce stress. Each guided imagery meditation, poem or nondenominational prayer lets the patient know that she is not alone. Each imagery story guides a woman or a man with breast cancer to sort out his/her feelings, question fears and negative thoughts, calm anxiety, and restore some normalcy to daily life.

Guided imagery meditations in Reflect: Cultivating Your Garden after Surgery focus on developing inner strength, courage, compassion, hope, laughter, and a support system. Other meditations consider ways to enjoy this moment, the beauty and tranquility of nature and treating oneself with kindness. Using visualization, deep, rhythmic breathing, drawing and writing, a patient can find inner strength, peace and nurture herself before her treatment begins.

James Capuano's BEAST delivers the author's highly idiosyncratic, inspiring and informative take on his diagnosis of Stage IV colon cancer, and his long journey to remission. The book is sure to provide entertaining reassurance to others diagnosed with cancer in its various forms, as well as those who care about and for them. In the end, his message is this: No matter how hopeless or dire a situation may seem, nothing is inevitable, and the will - no, the conviction - to fight counts for a hell of a lot.

If you’ve ever had a friend, relative, or colleague with cancer, this is the book for you. Wondering what to say, how to help, and/or what to know about your friend with cancer? Now, for the first time, your questions will be answered in this supportive and instructional guide on how to be there for your loved one in his or her time of need.

Wisenberg may have lost a breast, but she retained her humor, outrage, and skepticism toward common wisdom and most institutions. While following the prescribed protocols at the place she called Fancy Hospital, Wisenberg is unsparing in her descriptions of the fumblings of new doctors, her own awkward announcement to her students, and the mounds of unrecyclable plastic left at a survivors' walk.

Currently, in the United States alone, nearly 250,000 women under age 40 are living with breast cancer. This year, approximately 11,000 women under age 40 will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and close to 1,300 will die. For women in their twenties and thirties, being diagnosed with breast cancer is a vastly different experience than for their older counterparts. I'm Too Young considers how breast cancer affects young women's lives: their career goals, health insurance coverage, career changes, education, and shifting work/life priorities.

Many people believe the topic of surviving prostate cancer relates only to men. It doesn't. This disease can take a serious toll on women, too. Cindie Hubiak's book, A Woman's Guide to Thriving after Prostate Cancer, shows how women can take their experience with prostate cancer beyond surviving to thriving. Suffering in silence after her husband's diagnosis, Cindie woke up to her deep-seated unhappiness. Her search for remedies led her to revitalize her relationship and thrive as a woman.

In 1998, Spielman's wife, Stefanie, was diagnosed with breast cancer, launching an eleven-year journey that brought joy and suffering to the Spielmans and hope and inspiration to thousands of others. In That's Why I'm Here, Spielman traces his storied career, recalls his courtship with Stephanie, cherishes the growth of their four children, and invokes the deep, spiritual faith that gave their family wisdom and comfort in times of struggle.

Cancer rates continue to skyrocket, and the overall survival rate for stage IV cancer patients in the United States is a grim 2.1 percent. Clearly, the extensive use of expensive - sometimes ineffective - toxins in conventional oncology protocols is a failing strategy. Even the few survivors of these harsh slash-and-burn treatments can have a dismal quality of life, suffering with ailments such as nerve damage, heart muscle disease, and liver and kidney failure.

Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book has long been the bible for the newly diagnosed. In this completely revised fifth edition, it also becomes a guide for those at risk of getting breast cancer, survivors interested in the consequences of their treatment, and anyone who wants to understand the new research about how the local environment influences the manifestations and treatments of many different kinds of breast cancer.

Surviving non-Hodgkins lymphoma, melanoma, and prostate cancer, former White House chief-of-staff Hamilton Jordan shares his personal and political reflections--from his experiences with the Civil Rights movement to his civilian volunteer tour in Vietnam, from his years of scrutiny under the Carter administration to his agonizing, yet triumphant times battling cancer.

You're Not Alone brings listeners the actual voices of more than twenty women and men who have lived through breast cancer and who now want to be a friend to others by sharing their experiences, well-earned wisdom, humor, and advice.

In this unabridged audio download, Letters from the Land of Cancer, award-winning writer Walter Wangerin Jr. offers his profound insights into the greatest challenge we face: confronting our own mortality. Diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer in January 2006, Wangerin began writing letters to his friends and family members. Now he offers these intimate letters to all who ask questions about living and dying well.