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	Here you'll find some of our patient's top recommendations for books covering Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Lymphoma, Alternative/ Complementary Therapies, Diet, Cancer Medications, and Personal Experiences of People With Cancer.

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The Breast Cancer Survival Manual : A Step-By-Step Guide for the Woman With Newly Diagnosed Cancer In a valuable guide for women who have just been diagnosed with breast cancer, Dr. John Link helps sort through the confusion and the fear, by explaining such things as how to get a second opinion and how to understand a pathology report. Particularly valuable is Link's step-by-step description of how breast cancer is characterized, or staged, according to tumor size, hormone receptors, and other factors...

Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book has been considered the bible of breast-care books since it appeared in 1990. In 1995, Love completely updated the book in a 100%-page second edition, including new biopsy and screening methods, implants, the pros and cons of hormone therapy, new discoveries in breast-cancer treatment, and many other topics. Every chapter has been rewritten, with the exception of the anatomy chapter...

Hope Is Contagious : The Breast Cancer Treatment Survival Handbook Margit Porter writes from the conviction that one must participate fully in one's survival, a creed she has transformed into a gift for women living with breast cancer. When she was diagnosed with the disease at age 34, she vowed to help others through similar circumstances. As a part of her efforts, she circulated a questionnaire; the result is Hope Is Contagious, a compilation of the responses...

Living Beyond Breast Cancer : A Survivor's Guide for When Treatment Ends and the Rest of Your Life Begins "Breast cancer is never completely over," says author Marisa C. Weiss, M.D., a radiation oncologist. Even when x-rays are negative and doctors proclaim remission, breast-cancer survivors often suffer from continued health problems along with elevated levels of anxiety, and the specter of recurrence is just a small part of the picture...

Be A Survivor: Your Guide to Breast Cancer Treatment This impressive new book is unlike anything currently available at your local bookstore. It combines the latest medical knowledge from experts in the field with words of wisdom from survivors, and uses photographs and exceptional color graphics to make the most difficult concepts easy to understand. Developed by a physician whose wife, also a physician, was diagnosed with breast cancer. Be A Survivor: Your Guide to Breast Cancer Treatment features: Clear, concise, up-to-date information...

The Prostate: A Guide for Men and the Women Who Love Them Including storie about the experiences of individual patients and their families, this comprehensive guide reveals the causes of and cures for inflamation of the prostate, the latest treatments--with illustrations--for prostate cancer and how to decide which to use, what to expect before and after surgery, new tests for benign prostate enlargement and urinary problems, and more.

The American Cancer Society: Prostate Cancer There have been numerous other books written about prostate cancer; but this - backed by the American Cancer Society's focus on early detection - provides the essential basic information written with a team of internationally recognized experts on the subject. The candid explorations of various treatment options and their complications or success rates is particularly useful.

The Journey Through Cancer: An Oncologist's Seven-Level Program for Healing and Transforming the Whole Person "Dr. Jeremy Geffen is an oncologist of the future, one who integrates the best of traditional and non-traditional approaches. He addresses the physical as well as the psychosocial, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of health and healing. It is unfortunate that all people who are concerned with cancer can't have Dr. Geffen as their doctor; this book is the next best thing."

Comprehensive Cancer Care: Integrating Alternative, Complementary and Conventional Therapies Comprehensive Cancer Care, which Gordon wrote with patient advocate and author Sharon Curtin, is an authoritative, eloquent guide to more experimental methodologies that have demonstrated improvements in quality of life and life expectancy, or in fact have reversed cancer's destructive trajectory, for patients with all stages of cancer. They address the efficacy of therapeutic diets...

Complementary Cancer Therapies: Combining Traditional and Alternative Approaches for the Best Possible Outcome In recent years, modern medical science has made tremendous strides in developing effective treatments for most cancers. In addition, remarkable studies now indicate that alternative therapies can complement and even enhance traditional cancer treatments. In Complementary Cancer Therapies, Dr. Dan Labriola presents a revolutionary program for combining the best of science...

Eating Well for Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Food, Diet, and Nutrition Hopefully, years from now, Eating Well for Optimum Health will be looked upon as the book that saved the health of millions of Americans and transformed the way we eat--not as the book we overlooked at our own peril. It clarifies the mishmash of conflicting news, research, hype, and hearsay regarding diet, nutrition, and supplementation, and further establishes the judicious Dr. Weil...

Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas: Making Sense of Diagnosis, Treatment and Options Prior to publication of this resource guide, no book on the market targeted the non-Hodgkin's lymphoma survivor's need for understandable information. While there are medical texts on the non-Hodgkin's lymphomas as well as inspirational first-person accounts from survivors of related cancers such as leukemia, between these two sources of information existed a considerable information gap...

American Cancer Society Consumers Guide to Cancer Drugs This authoritative cancer drug guide from the American Cancer Society offers over 500 information-packed pages in a remarkably portable size.

Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy Nothing can scare us quite as much as cancer. This disease, striking sometimes sensibly, sometimes arbitrarily, inspires despair and hopelessness to the same extent that its cure eludes us. Cancer researcher Mel Greaves illuminates what we know of its causes and the obstacles to research in Cancer: The Evolutionary Legacy. The subtitle is intriguing, and Greaves backs it up with a detailed examination of the evolutionary biology of cancer cells...

Our Cancer Year "This is a story about a year when someone was sick, about a time when it seemed that the rest of the world was sick, too." So begins Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner's painful comic book autobiography centering on the year that they found out that Pekar had cancer; the year that also saw Operation Desert Shield turn into Operation Desert Storm. Drawing upon the many personal trials they faced, Pekar and Brabner create a portrait of a man...