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By Janie Brown

Janie Brown, oncology nurse of thirty years and counsellor of cancer patients with terminal diagnoses, recounts twenty conversations she has had with the dying; including those personally close to her.

8BRO (Grieving, Bereavement, Death)

Year added: 2020

The Bowel Recovery Toolkit

By Sarah Russell

This recovery programme is full of encouraging advice for any cancer patient and includes healthy eating as well. These are great practical guidelines for a full recovery.

2co RUS Specific Cancers: Colon Cancer

Year added: 2020

A Beginner’s Guide to the End

By BJ Miller and Shoshana Berger

This is a practical book which provides a wealth of useful, thoughtfully presented information for patients, family members, caregivers and friends. It is easy to navigate, both through the quirky illustrations and the thought-provoking titles, headings and subheadings of each chapter, which help readers to locate the answers to their

MIL (Grieving, Bereavement, Death)

Year added: 2020

The Caregiver’s Guide to Cancer

By Victoria Landes

Caregivers must adapt to the variety of changes that accompany a diagnosis. This book is intended to serve as an expansive resource for caregivers as they learn both for their loved ones and for themselves.

6LAN Coping with Cancer, Care and Families

Year added: 2022

Standing at Water’s Edge

By Janice Post-White

Her memoir shares her son’s perspective as a young cancer patient and teen survivor and explores her own personal and professional insights on survivorship, resilience, healing and what facing death can teach us about living.

6POS Coping with Cancer, Care and Families

Year added: 2022

How to Live When you Could be Dead

By Deborah James

Deborah James dedicated her life to helping others… with this book she will reach so many more, providing rebellious hope to the darkest of nights, and quite possibly changing how we think about death forever.

9JAM Life Journeys

Year added: 2022

Treating Cancer with Immunotherapy and Targeted Therapy

By David A. Olle

This book provides questions and answers about the characteristics of cancer diagnosis, classifications, surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, targeted therapy, adoptive cell therapy, and more.

2OLL General Cancer

Year added: 2022

Love is the strongest medicine

By Steven Eisenberg

Not many books are written by the oncologists themselves about delivering such news and Dr. Eisenberg reveals much of himself, his own struggles as a doctor, and his growing depths of understanding and empathy. He has an innate understanding of what is required from the doctor when one receives such

6EIS Coping with Cancer: Care and Families

Caring for a Young Person with Cancer

By Anne Katz

This book provides an accessible, sensitive and evidence-based resource for partners, parents and family members who are caring for adolescents and young adults with cancer.

6KAT Coping with Cancer: care and families

Life Blood

By Cathy Koning

The author said she decided “to call her cancer the little c rather than the Big C. She wasn’t giving it that much power over her life”. However her battle with Acute Myeloid Leukemia proved a difficult and long one involving a stem-cell transplant especially as she had a severe

9KON Life Journeys

The Mother of All Fights

By Erin Soto

It offers readers struggling with illness or searching for peace in the wake of personal tragedy, a path to find meaning in their darkest moments, The Mother of All Fights is both a deeply personal story and practical roadmap for thriving in the face of uncertainty and loss”

9SOT Life Journeys

The Cancer Diet Cookbook

By Dionne Detraz

Dionne Detraz is an Integrative Dietician with more than 10 years’ experience of supporting people through their cancer journeys, helping both patients and caregivers to explore the relationship between cancer and nutrition, as well as the crucial roles that compassion and self-care play in their lives. No matter what your

3DET Food and Nutrition

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