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This isn't just a real-life story of a second chance at love - it is a story about a loving husband who would sacrifice everything to ensure his wife’s beautiful smile never wavers. Shana and Schirra’s story will take you on a journey into the joys in marriage, the pains cancer patients face, and the beauty in true love. They are proof that real love exists and it doesn’t need physical well-being to thrive. Through their faith in God and devotion to one another, an eternal love arises that cannot be replaced or shattered.

Nicky, a witty, intelligent, and clever 13-year-old, was diagnosed with a rare childhood bone cancer. However, this book is about more than cancer and its treatment and the fight to survive. It's about more than a mother and her son who accepted his mortality at such a young age and the strength and love between two loving souls.

Life After Cancer Treatment is a booklet for people who have completed cancer treatment. This booklet covers your new normal, getting follow-up medical care, and how to talk with your doctor, following a survivorship care plan, ways to manage physical changes, body changes and intimacy issues, coping with your feelings, and going back to work.

Baker, knitter, animal lover, wife, mother - but most of all, a writer. That's how Eliza Walton sees herself. Until, halfway through her MFA studies, a diagnosis of rectal cancer lands on her head. Fear, shame, and dread threaten to pull her under. How to face an anxiety-laden year of radiation, chemo, and a permanent colostomy?

The purpose of the audiobook is to inform cancer patients and there families on how to put the right foods inside the human body before and after cancer treatments and nutrition's such as foods that boost the immune system for cancer patients such as meats, fruits, and vegetables that go into there diets and small tricks on how to work up a appetite and much more.

The purpose of this book is to inform cancer patients and their families on how to put the right foods inside the human body before and after cancer treatments, and nutrition such as foods that boost the immune system for cancer patients, such as meats, fruits, and vegetables that go into their diets. Also included are small tricks on how to work up an appetite, and much more.

This book is written from an actual survivor who wants to provide helpful information to anyone, who is going through their own serious health issue or is close to someone who is battling through a major medical problem. The author was a caregiver and then went through his own cancer diagnosis and treatments. These provided the experiences to learn how to recognize and manage the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual challenges that everyone must face during these difficult times.

This book is written from an actual survivor who wants to provide helpful information to anyone who is going through their own serious health issue or is close to someone who is battling through a major medical problem. The author was a caregiver and then, went through his own cancer diagnosis and treatments. These provided the experiences to learn how to recognize and manage the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual challenges that everyone must face during these difficult times.

If you’ve ever been ugly dumped, knocked off your feet, financially devastated, stunned by a potentially fatal diagnosis, or paralyzed by fear, you’ll find comfort and strategies for surviving and eventually thriving in this book. Her surprising journey through the maze of illness, treatment, surgery, and recovery, along with her stubborn daily practice of gratitude, even when she wanted to throw her gratitude journal off a cliff, will leave you laughing, crying, and hopefully feeling grateful, even when it seems impossible.

Being diagnosed with cancer is frightening; learning that the cancer is late stage takes that fear to unknown depths. After a year of brutal treatment, Mo Haque heard the dreaded words, 'There is nothing else we can do for you.' His cancer was terminal and left him questioning the price we put on life. Three years on from the 'small chance' of survival the experts had given him, Mo shares his incredible story: of despair and suffering, of hope and healing, of vulnerability and authenticity. This audiobook is for anyone going through the most challenging of times.

Like most cancer survivors, you never saw it coming and may still find yourself unable to thrive in your "new normal". Even though you are determined to make the most of every day, deep down you are frustrated by a quality of life that is less than optimal. Do you have questions about what lies ahead and worry about a cancer comeback? The good news is that you can move beyond this disease.

When Henry Scowcroft's partner, Zarah, was diagnosed with stage-four bladder cancer in 2016, their world fell apart. An award-winning science writer for Cancer Research UK, Henry had spent 14 years at the coal-face of cancer research, but now the disease had infiltrated his personal life too. Henry uses this unique perspective to tell the story of Zarah's illness, how he tried in vain to use everything he'd learnt in his professional career to try to save her and in doing so, how he realised that even a career writing about cancer daily isn't enough preparation for what comes next.

In November of 2017, Cort Davies was given just three years to live. He was diagnosed with stage 4 malignant paraganglioma, one of the rarest forms of cancer on the planet. After seven surgeries, radiation, chemotherapy, and experimental drugs, he felt like he was at the end of the road but something changed him one night as he laid in a hospital bed. He realized that his prognosis was simply a haunting opinion, and the true cause of his suffering was fear and the stress of the unknowns.

Reimagine cancer survival. That’s what stage-4 cancer survivor Dr. Mark Roby wants you to do. On December 30, 2002, Roby was diagnosed with one of the rarest cancers in the world and told it was unresponsive to all known chemotherapy. His oncologist suggested he “accept the inevitable”, but Roby thought otherwise. Quickly realizing that conventional thinking would do little to help him, he created his own, personalized treatment plan targeting his specific tumor. And he survived!

Something everyone has the power to do is reduce your cancer risk, and this book will show you just how easy it is to do it. Each year, over a million people in the United States alone hear the words no one ever wants to hear: You have cancer. But what if there was a way for fewer people to hear...

Traumatized and terrified of cancer? Whether you or a family member is battling the disease, this beautiful, updated edition of the trusted, encouraging 90-day devotional will comfort and strengthen you. Written by women who have faced cancer themselves, this book reminds you that you are not...

Finding a cancerous lump in her breast seven weeks after a clean mammogram was terrifying. But fitness expert and race announcer Fitz Koehler refused to play the victim or allow cancer to steal her extraordinary career or time with family. In My Noisy Cancer Comeback, Fitz reveals the juicy and gory details of her 16-month battle, all while zigzagging across the United States.

Over the span of a few years, I battled breast cancer twice. This is my story - a story of perseverance, endurance, and hope, and of what I learned along the way, from what cancer is to how to eat to maintain the body. A survival guide for women fighting their own battles, this book is also a battle cry and a story of hope and strength. Your life doesn’t have to be ruined by this diagnosis. You can choose not to let cancer define you. You can choose to fight, to find support, and to keep yourself informed so that the unknown that you will face will become a little bit less murky.

Eine Geschichte aus und über das Leben. Wie man mit Mut, Lebensfreude und einer guten Portion Selbstironie eine Chemotherapie sowie den ganz normalen Krankenhaus-, Behörden- und Versicherungswahnsinn überleben kann! Ich möchte Menschen, die vor ähnlichen Herausforderungen stehen, helfen, nicht den Mut zu verlieren. Ich habe auf meinem Weg auch viel über mich als Person gelernt und ich freue mich, wenn Sie mich jetzt rückblickend begleiten und ich Ihnen etwas von meiner Lebensfreude abgeben kann.

Frightened by cancer? Riddled with questions? Perhaps you or a loved one is battling this disease. Do you know where to turn for encouragement, comfort and support? In Her Shoes: Dancing in the Shadow of Cancer is a collection of vignettes, highlighting the stories of everyday women with everyday lives interrupted by cancer - their challenges, heartbreaks, questions, and triumphs. Each devotional focuses on one aspect of their cancer journey.