Katz, 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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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 FUNSummary: "Provides basic health information for cancer survivors, such as seeking medical assistance, side effects of cancer treatments, cancer-related research studies, maintaining health during and after treatment, along with the guidelines for friends, family members, and caregivers to take care of cancer survivors. Includes glossary, index, and other resources"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 CANMarusic, 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: "Provides basic consumer health information about risks, prevention, and treatment of major forms of cancer. Includes index, glossary of related terms, statistics, and other resources"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Omnigraphics 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 CANBesser, Jeanne
Summary: "Featuring 102 new dishes, this second edition provides practical suggestions to help patients and their caregivers anticipate--and overcome--the major challenges of eating well during treatment. What to Eat During Cancer Treatment offers evidence-based research and clinical information about the seven most common eating-related side effects of cancer treatment--nausea, diarrhea, constipation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Cancer Society 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 BESDyer, Diana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Swan Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.994 DYEBrem, 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 BREEllsworth, Pamela
Summary: 100 Questions & Answers About Prostate Cancer provides authoritative and practical answers to the most common questions asked by patients and their loved ones. Providing both doctor and patient perspectives, this easy-to-read book is a comprehensive guide to the basics of prostate cancer, risk factors and prevention, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, and life after diagnosis. Written by Dr....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 ELLServan-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 SERApple, Sam
Summary: "The extraordinary story of the Nazi-era scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat-and what it means for how we should. The Nobel laureate Otto Warburg-a cousin of the famous finance Warburgs-was widely regarded in his day as one of the most important biochemists of the twentieth century, a man whose research was integral to humanity's understanding of cancer. He was also among the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WARBURG, OTTO APPPort, Dina Roth.
Summary: Through the incredible true stories of five young friends, as well as interviews with more than seventy top breast cancer experts, health writer Dina Roth Port addresses the universal questions of women everywhere who have watched family members suffer from the disease and wondered, "Am I next?" Full of practical information, Previvors is the first comprehensive book to guide women through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 PORSilver, J. K. (Julie K.)
Contents: Get your life back on track -- Understand physical healing -- Dare to dream again -- Prioritize what you do and pace yourself -- Seek help from western medicine -- Explore eastern and other medical systems -- Dance, skip, and walk: exercise your way back to health -- Nourish your body -- Fight fatigue -- Ease your pain -- Monitor your mood -- Tap into your spirituality -- Love and be loved --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2006
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Summary: You have cancer. Three words no one ever wants to hear, yet each year, over a million people in the United States alone do. But what if there was a way for fewer people to hear these words? One of the biggest myths regarding cancer is that it's mostly genetic--meaning that you have no control over whether you get it. While genetics do have an impact, the truth is that your lifestyle and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Horizon 2021
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 WHYBarnard, Neal D.
Summary: Shows how foods influence hormones that fuel cancer and how a dietary change to a low fat, plant based diet can be beneficial to anyone diagnosed with the disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Healthy Living Publications 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 BARWark, 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 WARLevin, Bernard
Contents: Foreword by Katie Couric -- Preface by Bernard Levin -- Introduction -- What is colorectal cancer? -- Overview of colorectal cancer -- Chapter risk factors and prevention -- The diagnosis -- Early detection -- Initial evaluation -- Diagnosis and staging -- Understanding your prognosis -- After the diagnosis -- Coping with your diagnosis -- Making the medical system work for you -- Treatment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Cancer Society 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 AMEMaker, 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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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 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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Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.99 BurConant, 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