Examines the deadly disease cancer, including a history of the disease, diagnosis and treatment, coping with cancer, and the fight against it around the world.

"When Queenie Hennessy is told she has days to live she sends a letter on pink paper in which she bids goodbye to Harold Fry. It is a letter that inspires an unlikely walk, a cast of well-wishers and the examination of many lives unlived. But there is a second letter, a longer, quieter more complicated letter which she will never send. It is this letter, the one we did not know about in The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, which reveals the shocking...

Written by a cancer survivor, this invaluable guide to cancer recovery offers an easily accessible holistic action plan for patients and family members who choose to adopt a stance of hope and take charge of their diagnosis

A collection of stories includes "Home, " a wryly whimsical account of a soldier's return from war; "Victory Lap, " a tale about an inventive abduction attempt; and the title story, in which a suicidal cancer patient saves the life of a young misfit.

Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option...Unmissable. (New York Times). At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous...

Covers all aspects of breast cancer, including prevention, diagnosis, treatment, medication, alternative remedies, coping mechanisms, and communicating with children.

An introduction to breast cancer discusses diagnosis, self-exams, treatment options, and recovery.