Wark, Chris
Summary: "Two days before Christmas and at just 26-years-old, Chris Wark found himself diagnosed with stage-3 colon cancer. Before he knew it, he was wheeled into surgery, where a golf ball-sized tumor and a third of his colon were removed. Doctors told Wark thatas soon as he recovered from surgery, he would need 9 to 12 months of chemotherapy in order to prevent a recurrence. But when the first meal he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 WARKatz, Anne (Anne Jennifer)
Summary: "Prostate Cancer and the Man You Love is for the women and men who love and support a man with prostate cancer. Each chapter tells the story of a man and his partner dealing with this cancer, from diagnosis through survivorship. Fully updated and comprehensive, this book educates and informs partners on the latest studies and findings"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 KATFunk, Kristi
Summary: "A comprehensive guide to total breast health from the go-to breast care expert for Good Morning America and The Doctors. One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer over the course of their lives, and breast cancer is the #1 killer of women ages 20-59. But did you know that only 15 percent of those diagnosed have a single relative with breast cancer? For most of us, family history...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W Publishing, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 FUNMarusic, Kristina
Summary: "For more than fifty years, we have been waging, but not winning, the war on cancer. We're better than ever at treating the disease, yet cancer still claims the lives of one in five men and one in six women in the US. The astonishing news is that up to two-thirds of all cancer cases are linked to preventable environmental causes. If we can stop cancer before it begins, why don't we? That was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 MARSummary: Cancer is not a laughing matter, but the archaic way people are beating it is. With a dose of good humor, heart, and a touch of rock'n'roll, this documentary reveals the forces that are keeping people sick and dares to ask: if up to 70% of cancer deaths are preventable, what are people waiting for?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CDunn, Kelsey Torgerson
Summary: Many teens who struggle with anger also struggle with anxiety--and their anxiety can actually drive their anger or make it worse. Using an approach rooted in evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), When Anxiety Makes You Angry helps teen readers identify the anxiety beneath their outbursts, practice acceptance of difficult emotions--rather than fighting or trying to ignore them--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Instant Help Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 616.852 DUNReichenberg-Ullman, Judyth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prima Health 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8589 REINaiman, Ingrid.
Summary: "In the 1950s the use of herbal cancer salves for tumor destruction and removal had a 75 to 80 percent success rate; but with the advent, first of radiation and later of chemotherapy, the method went underground. In this fascinating and useful book, the author demystifies and revives a major natural method of therapy."-- from publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books [distributor] 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 NAIRess, Jessica
Summary: Whether you have sensitive skin or just want to switch to a natural beauty routine, these step-by-step instructions will teach you how to use oils, herbs, and other easy-to-find ingredients to make organic skincare recipes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Maker, Janet
Summary: When Dr. Maker was diagnosed in 2011, she, like most people, knew almost nothing about breast cancer. What she did know is that she didn't feel safe simply following her doctors' advice. The treatment is not always successful; some people die, and some who survive have disabling side effects. She needed to understand for herself all her treatment options, the statistical outcomes for each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jane Thomas Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 MAKServan-Schreiber, David.
Summary: Confronting what medicine knows about cancer, the workings of the body's natural cancer-fighting capacities, and his own will to live, David Servan-Schreiber finds himself on a journey from disease and relapse into scientific exploration, and finally to health.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 616.994 SERServan-Schreiber, David.
Summary: A radical synthesis of science and personal experience that advocates a sea change in the way we understand and confront cancer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Med Servan-SchreiberSummary: Pink ribbons, the symbol of the breast cancer prevention movement, are everywhere: T-shirts, hats, yogurt cups, KFC buckets, car ads, NFL stadiums - the list goes on and on. They make people feel good, as if engaged in a successful battle against breast cancer. But who is really benefiting? More and more women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year. Wouldn't it be something if some of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PINServan-Schreiber, David.
Summary: 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;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 616.99 SERBrem, Rachel
Summary: "A life-saving and empowering guide to understanding breast cancer detection, prevention, and treatment options, from two top doctors in the field-Rachel Brem, a breast radiologist, and Christy Teal, a breast surgeon-who have also made the personal decisions to have mastectomies"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Element 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 BREJackson, M.
Summary: "While Glaciers Slept weaves together the parallel stories of what happens when the climates of family and planet change. Jackson, a National Geographic Expert, reveals how these events are deeply similar and intertwined. She tells the story of her parents' struggles with cancer while describing in detail the planetary changes she's witnessed. Above all else, Jackson shows that even in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Green Writers Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551 JACMcLelland, Jane
Summary: A modern-day 'Cancer Sherlock Holmes', Jane discovered that a cancer-starving diet, powerful supplements and a handful of old, forgotten, low-toxicity drugs, when taken together, acted synergistically, magnifying each of their anti-cancer effects many times. Like magic, her terminal cancer just melted away. In this truly ground-breaking book, Jane takes us through her remarkable,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Agenor Publishing 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 McLSummary: Examines the long war between the organized medical profession, represented by the American Medical Association, and independent practioners, exemplified by Harry M. Hoxsey, who sell seemingly miraculous cancer cures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HOXHolmes, Greg
Summary: When Greg Holmes was diagnosed with a rare and deadly form of cancer, his wife, a physician, devoted her time to researching alternative and holistic forms of treatment, seeking not only to battle the disease, but the debilitating after effects of radiation and chemotherapy. This book relates his struggle, and the methods the couple used to help treat his cancer. In the words of the author, "I...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paradox 2013
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOLMES, GREG HOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Alt HolmesCabrera, Chanchal
Summary: "In Holistic Cancer Care, Chanchal Cabrera, a consulting medical herbalist with more than 20 years specializing in holistic oncology, provides an in-depth guide to using herb-based therapies in conjunction with conventional treatments"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: ABC News' World News Tonight has partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Cancer Institute, and the North American Quitline Consortium to provide viewers with a comprehensive look at the leading cause of preventable death in America: lung cancer. This compilation of WNT segments reports on issues ranging from tobacco-related public health policy, to the latest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Branch, Michael P.
Summary: "Just what is a jackalope? Purported to be part jackrabbit and part antelope, the jackalope began as a local joke concocted by two young brothers in a small Wyoming town during the Great Depression. Their creation quickly spread around the U.S., where it now regularly appears as innumerable forms of kitsch--wall mounts, postcards, keychains, coffee mugs, shot glasses, and so on. A vast body of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.469 BRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.469 BRABrantley-Sieders, Dana
Summary: "Provides accessible science and health information for the love of your boobs, especially when they have cancer. Dana Brantley-Seiders spent twenty years working as a biomedical breast cancer researcher. Then, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She thought she knew breast cancer before it whacked her upside her left boob and left her bleeding on the curb of uncertainty. Turns out, she had a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health Wom BrantleyConant, Jennet
Summary: "The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, its cover-up, and how one army doctor's discovery led to the development of chemotherapy. On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey, an American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020