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The Improvisational Oncologist

By Siddhartha Mukherjee — 2016

To understand the minds of individual cancers, we are learning to mix and match these two kinds of learning — the standard and the idiosyncratic — in unusual and creative ways.

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Reading and Writing Cancer: How Words Heal

Elaborating upon her “Living with Cancer” column in the New York Times, Susan Gubar helps patients, caregivers, and the specialists who seek to serve them. In a book both enlightening and practical, she describes how the activities of reading and writing can right some of cancer’s wrongs.

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Cancer and Fatigue as a Teenager—Ellis’ Story

Ellis was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia at 16 years old. Fatigue made it difficult to do full days at school. He also had to give up basketball, his favourite sport. Ellis’ treatment affected his immune system.

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How to Starve Cancer . . . Without Starving Yourself

After being given a terminal diagnosis with only a few weeks to live, Jane threw herself into research. Already medically knowledgeable as a Chartered Physiotherapist, Jane dug up research, some decades old, in her quest to survive.

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What Helped Me Get Through: Cancer Survivors Share Wisdom and Hope

Winner: 2009 National Health Information Award, Gold; Finalist: 2010 National Indie Excellence Award, Health & Well-being ——— This new book, edited by a breast cancer survivor, succinctly relates the experiences, both practical and sensitive, of hundreds of cancer survivors—including celebrities such...

Julie K. Silver

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Then Came Life: Living with Courage, Spirit, and Gratitude After Breast Cancer

When Geralyn Lucas, author of Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy, put on red lipstick in the hall on the way to the operating room, she was showing her doctors, her family, and, most important, herself that she planned on coming out of the OR and living life to the fullest.

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On Special Assignment: Cancer, Courage and Creativity

The impacts of cancer often continue long after treatment is over—it's a hard-fought, emotional journey of survival

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Faith, Hope and Healing: Inspiring Lessons Learned from People Living with Cancer

Inspiring lessons learned from people living with cancer.

Bernie Siegel, Jennifer Sander

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How to Help a Child Cope with Cancer | Child Anxiety

No child should suffer depression and anxiety without help, seek professional help for you and your child and here’s some resources for educating yourself along the way:

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Strategies for Coping with Cancer Anxiety

How do you cope with cancer? According to the principles of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), it is possible to be afraid and to have hope at the same time.

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Anxiety After Cancer: How Beating Cancer Makes Life Worse (And How to Turn it Around)

Through painful personal struggle and discovery, BH Lindblad discovered that life after cancer wasn't as he imagined. Crippling anxiety and PTSD plagued him for years, with no end in sight. From vigorous research, Lindblad found a dozen natural ways to cure his anxiety, for good.

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