Levin, 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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Guterson, David.

Summary: In Washington State, a widowed doctor suffering from cancer takes a hunting trip, the real purpose of which is to commit suicide, which he will masquerade as an accident. But Dr. Ben Givens' resolve is tested by several events which reaffirm the joy of living--he cheats death by fighting off wolves and helps a girl give birth.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1999

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Moon, Ben

Summary: "Denali is the story of the friendship between the author, Ben Moon, and his dog, Denali, as they traveled the American west, and of how Denali supported the author as he battled cancer, and how the author dealt with the cancer illness and death of his dog"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2020

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Hilnama

Summary: "At 38 years old, Hilnama, an erotic manga artist, is diagnosed with colon cancer. Never one to lose hope or give up, she begins treatment despite the terminal diagnosis. But when going through such a grueling process, it can be difficult to keep a positive outlook. When faced with the struggles and trials of life, Hilnama turns to what she knows: writing and creating manga! This poignant and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2022

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Bowler, Kate

Summary: "We all know, intellectually, that our time on earth is limited. What would we change if we knew it viscerally? Kate Bowler was thirty-five when she was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. Now that she's responded to immunotherapy Kate has to figure out how to make a new life between CT scans. Before she got sick, she'd accepted the very American idea that life was an endless horizon of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021

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Yip-Williams, Julie

Summary: "Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia by her grandmother, only to then flee the political upheaval of the late 1970s with her family. Loaded into a rickety boat with three hundred other refugees, Julie made it to Hong Kongand, ultimately, America, where a surgeon at UCLA gave her partial sight. Against all odds, she became a Harvard-educated lawyer, with a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019

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Bowler, Kate

Summary: "A divinity professor and young mother with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis explores the pain and joy of living without certainty. Thirty-five-year-old Kate Bowler was a professor at the school of divinity at Duke, and had finally had a baby with her childhood sweetheart after years of trying, when she began to feel jabbing pains in her stomach. She lost thirty pounds, chugged antacid, and visited...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2018

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