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Chemotherapy Treatment: Comforting Gift Book For Patients Coping With CancerThis relaxing book is a quick reference for anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer.It includes valuable advice, personal testimonies, wise sayings, prayers for healing and salvation, uplifting Bible scriptures, and tips on applying such ideas. It can be read during chemo or at home.Sometimes, we just don't know what to say to someone undergoing treatment and so,this book...

Doctor Jared Noel knew he was dying for almost six years, from the age of 25. But when it looked as though he would not live to see the birth of his child, he began a Givealittle crowd-funding campaign to raise money for a course of chemo treatment that would keep him alive long enough to meet his unborn child. This remarkable campaign, covered by nationwide media, raised an incredible $170,000 in two days. Jared not only lived to see Elise born but...

"Health for Sale" asks: are the world's largest drug companies, paradoxically, major obstacles to making a healthier world? The film focuses on Big Pharma, the ten largest pharmaceutical makers, who account for 500 billion dollars of world health spending a year and whose 205 billion dollars in pre-tax profits were more than the combined profits of the 490 other Fortune 500 companies. Officials from all sides debate the impact of drug companies' patenting,...

For the more than eleven million cancer survivors in the United States, a healthy lifestyle is essential after treatment. Cancer wellness writer Suzanne Boothby aims to provide this invaluable information to cancer survivors in her book, The After Cancer Diet. In it, Suzanne shares what cancer survivors should eat, drink, and do to remain cancer-free for life, including sample recipes, regular exercise routines, detox programs, and overall advice...

"This is a book that will help cancer patients. It will inspire, motivate, engender thought and yes, make you laugh. I will highly recommend it to all my patients." Dr. Brian DiCarlo, Oncologist. What does a story about a woman, who had just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, have to do with fishnet stockings, a flood, some Russians, the Tenth Commandment, superheroes, and Galileo? In a brief two-year period of mishap and mayhem-the effects of...

Have you or someone you love dearly been diagnosed with cancer? Did the chemotherapy or radiation treatments fail? Were you or your loved one offered hospice or end of life care? If you answered yes to one or all of the above questions, this is the book for you! Between the Treatments is the journey of our family's ten-month fight with a Stage Four Liver Cancer diagnosis, chemotherapy treatments, hospice care and ultimately the death of our 21-month...

Une histoire d'amitié improbable commencée dans une salle d'attente... de chimiothérapie. Françoise Letailleur et Christine Baraston partagent avec nous leur expérience commune et personnelle du cancer du sein, avec transparence, humour mais également beaucoup de pudeur et de gratitude envers toutes les personnes qui les ont soutenues et continuent de les soutenir à travers ce qu'elles décrivent comme une "aventure". Un livre rempli de force,...