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Older Survivors of Cancer: feeling understood by sharing experiences

By Alice B. Kornblith

This book is a collection of narratives by older cancer patients and survivors of four different types of cancer and describes what they have been through physically and emotionally since their diagnosis. Click to learn more about this book.

6 KOR

Year added: 2021

Cross Everything: A personal journey into the evolution of cancer

By Henry Scowcroft

Henry Scowcroft's life changed in 2016 when his partner Zarah was suddenly diagnosed with incurable bladder cancer in her late thirties and for them cancer became personal! Click to learn more about this book.

9 SCO

Year added: 2021

Doctors get Cancer too: A doctor’s diary of life and recovery from cancer

By Philippa Kaye

Dr Philippa Kaye is a GP with a particular interest in children’s, women’s and sexual health. She has written multiple books on topics ranging from pregnancy and fertility to child health and child development, and she has a weekly column in Woman magazine. Click to learn more about this book.

9 KAY

Year added: 2021

Good Grief: Embracing life at a time of death

By Catherine Mayer and Anne Mayer Bird

Mother and daughter Anne Mayer Bird and Catherine Mayer were widowed within 41 days of each other on the eve of the pandemic, then locked down alone. Click to learn more about this book.

8 MAY

Year added: 2021

Lung cancer and diseases: the lung pathology and solution guide

By Sam Peller

This slim volume is a basic introduction to the subject. It covers causes, symptoms, treatment and malignancy. Click to learn more about this book.

2 L.

Year added: 2021

Beating osteoporosis: the facts, the treatments, the exercises

By Diana Moran

As there can be a link between cancer and/or chemotherapy and osteoporosis this book will help you understand what osteoporosis (and its predecessor osteopenia) is, what causes it and how we can prevent it getting worse. Click to learn more about this book.

1 MOR

Year added: 2021

Once More We Saw The Stars

By Jayson Greene

The toddler Greta sits down beside her grandmother on a bench in New York City. In an instant a constellation of lives is forever changed when a piece of a brick windowsill, breaks off and hits the two-year-old girl in the head. Click to learn more about this book.

9 GRE

Year added: 2019

The Bright Hour

By Nina Riggs

Two cancer memoirs appeared posthumously in 2016 and 2017. The first, “When Breath becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi was completed by his wife Lucy. The second, “The Bright Hour” by Nina Riggs concludes with some final words by her husband, John Duberstein. Click to learn more about this book.

9 RIG

Year added: 2019

The Golden Thread

By Pat Pilkington

Pat Pilkington was married to a young curate who had an interest in spiritual healing and life after death. Both of them were interested in spirituality, as distinct from organised religion. Click to learn more about this book.

4 PIL

Year added: 2019

When Breath Becomes Air

By Paul Kalanithi

Dr. Kalanithi's memoir reveals a life brimming with brilliance and compassion amidst his battle with metastatic stage IV lung cancer. Click to learn more about this book.

9 KAL

Year added: 2019

To Be Alive!

By Chris Hessler

This is an account of how a young man fought – and won – the battle against brain cancer. In the book he describes the shock of diagnosis, the determination to fight, and the long sometimes depressing journey through treatment. Click to learn more about this book.

9 HES

Year added: 2019

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

By Rebecca Skloot

A subtitle for this book could be: “The birth of HeLa and the death of Henrietta Lacks.” It takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride covering fifty years and it is based on facts. Click to learn more about this book.

2 SKL

Year added: 2019

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