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Author
Publisher
Ideapress Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A surprisingly open memoir co-authored by the married duo of a world class oncologist and a cancer survivor about love, pain, hope, strength and resilience while navigating the overwhelming breast cancer advocacy movement.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A heartfelt novel in the bestselling tradition of P.S. I Love You about a young woman in Georgia with stage four breast cancer who undertakes a mission to find a "replacement wife" for her husband before she passes away" --
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer, the illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. Here she explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer vloggers, corporate lies, John Donne, the ecological costs of chemotherapy, and the many little murders...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A New York City cartoonist recounts her eleven-month bout with breast cancer, from initial diagnosis to cure, chronicling her high-powered Manhattan lifestyle, the romance between the ultimate bachelorette and her surprising Prince Charming, and her fierce battle against disease.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed...
8) Breast cancer husband: how to help your wife (and yourself) through diagnosis, treatment, and beyond
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrink Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Built on her wildly popular Modern Love column, 'When a Couch is More Than a Couch' (9/23/2016), a breathtaking memoir of living meaningfully with 'death in the room' by the 38 year old great-great-great granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, mother to two young boys, wife of 16 years, after her terminal cancer diagnosis"--
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana, bajo el sello Editorial Diana
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
"En noviembre de 2011, Patricia Reyes Spíndola se convirtió en la protagonista de su propio melodrama: "Señora, tiene cáncer." Aún en el más hondo desconsuelo, la enfermedad la motivó a buscar en lo más profundo de su alma y a mirar la vida desde la perspectiva de quien es sorprendida por el cáncer de mama, pero jamás vencida por su amenaza. La detección, el diagnóstico, los tratamientos y finalmente la mastectomía total a la que se sometió...
11) Viviendo
Author
Publisher
Celebra
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Español
Description
The Mexican television star discusses her life and career, her marriage and divorce, and the ways in which her situation changed when she learned she had breast cancer.
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