Coping with / advice about cancer Books

Book SynopsisYou have cancer, and you need the help and support of your spouse and family more than ever. I Have Cancer, Now What? includes information on how to overcome the shock and fear of diagnosis, how to talk to your spouse and extended family, how to consult on what you want from your doctors, where and how your family can give you support, the transition of normal household duties and how to manage those, the real costs of cancer, both financial and emotional, what you need from your spouse and family emotionally and physically, including romance, how to manage full-time jobs, and other long-term issues that will help you get the support you need.Trade Review" . . . 'What to expect when the unexpected happens.' This book is a must-read for any husband hoping to shorten their learning curve." —Leigh Neumauyer, MD, MS, Professor of Surgery, Huntsman Cancer Institute"If ever there were a handbook for negotiating the process, you have written it." —Jon M. Huntsman, Huntsman Cancer Institute

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Book SynopsisIt's time to give cancer hell with this motivational weekly planner!Cancer f*cking sucks, and the treatment is no f*cking party either. Luckily, this kick*ss organizer is here to help! Use this 52-week undated planner to keep track of all the bullsh*t appointments, record symptoms, defog your chemo brain, and not stress over the details of the day-to-day. The perfect inspirational gift for cancer warrior patients and caregivers, this engagement calendar is not just a medication log, habit and treatment tracker, and daily organizer, but also packed with hilarious encouragement that helps you b*tch about cancer and focus on being the bad*ass you are! Stay organized, keep sh*t simple, and keep kicking cancer's *ss!52-WEEK UNDATED WEEKLY ORGANIZER6" x 9" trim size with durable cover, elastic band closure, and wire-o spiral binding for easy, lay-flat writingFour planner sticker sheets with over 260 motivational and practical sweary stickers for adults with quality adhesiveUndated weekly and monthly planning grids you can start any time with ample writing space for managing your or your loved one's scheduleWeekly spreads for cancer and chemo symptom, treatment, medication, and habit trackers, sh*t-to-remember lists, and questions to ask at doctor's appointmentsInternal storage pocket for important notes, forms, lists, and document managementEnvironmentally responsible, FSC certified and smudge-free paperTreatment plan front matter and sh*tloads of space for notesRemovable cover band and sticker for a sleek, gender neutral designThis engagement calendar and health tracker is the perfect "Fight Cancer!" care package or get well soon gift for men and women who are showing cancer who's boss!

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Book SynopsisExploring the emotional and medical aspects and everything the Author wish she had known when first diagnosed, the book is designed to help anybody with a primary Triple Negative Breast Cancer. The book takes the reader from diagnosis, through to treatment and beyond in an easy to read format, broken down into sections with illustrations and photographs.Diagnosis:The shock of finding out you have breast cancer, and then being told it''s Triple Negative, can be confusing and worrying. You may be bombarded with information, but also have a long list of questions. Taking the stress out of finding answers, the book starts by demystifying breast cancer, how it begins, understanding Triple Negative, and why it''s different to other types of breast cancer. With this knowledge, it will help to understand your own diagnosis, and hopefully, you''ll feel better informed for any meetings with your oncologist or surgeon.Treatment:What should you expect from surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy? The book guides you from the point of diagnosis, helping you to prepare, and understand the process including typical timelines and treatments. Each section is broken down, so you know what to expect and when. Simply understanding what''s to come, can help take the fear out of the unknown. Read real-life stories from Triple Negative breast cancer patients who discuss their treatment, surgery, what they had, and why.Recovery & Beyond:Treatment has finished and it''s the day you''ve waited for, but what now? How long is recovery and what should you expect? As you emerge out of the hospital bubble, you enter the most challenging time because life can feel different. You may feel anxious and apprehensive, scared that cancer may come back. The book discusses what you might expect, the ongoing aches and pains that cause concern and what you can do to help yourself. Your future may be a little different, but there''s no reason why Triple Negative can''t be a part of your past.The book contains treatment regimes specifically for the UK, but all other information is relevant to anybody with a Triple Negative Breast Cancer worldwide.

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Book SynopsisMandy McMillan was not a fighter. She was ordinary: a hairdresser, a party girl, a bit of a coward when it came to all things medical. The worst she''d ever fought was a cold.Then she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 27 - the second in her group of five friends to be struck down by the disease. She''d had a one in 1,900 chance of getting it. Her cancer was incurable; chemotherapy almost killed her, her body was so ravaged that she almost gave up, but Mandy battled on. Her one stroke of good fortune? The arrival of new wonder-drug, Herceptin.Then a miracle happened: Mandy gave birth to Britain''s first Herceptin baby, a little girl conceived, carried and born to a mum on long-term treatment. A drug saved Mandy McMillan, now a daughter called Holly is keeping her alive. And she will fight every single day to see her child grow up.

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Book SynopsisThe unconventional and surprisingly uplifting real-life account of football fan Michael Heinicke's experience with cancer. Interspersed with 25 years of exhilarating and heartening memories of life as a Burnley FC supporter, the book takes you back to his first match, as seen through the eyes of a six-year-old boy. The depth of detail woven into Michael's accounts of Burnley matches through the decades - from the old, decaying terraces of Division Four to the euphoria of a Wembley promotion to the Premier League - will strike a chord with football fans everywhere. Back in the present day, his descriptions of medical appointments and chemotherapy treatment will unexpectedly have you laughing out loud. Michael was 32 and the father of three young children when he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2014. His story breaks down conventional cancer myths and shows us that sometimes, for a lucky few, life's curveballs can be more positive than negative, bringing a tale of hope to that unfathomable and unbearable cancer diagnosis.

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Book Synopsis'Too often we minimise the reality of terminal cancer, concentrating instead on survival records and talking only in positive pink ribbon terms. But what of those who live daily with the shadow of the disease? This is a book about how that feels. It is about how to die as much as about to how to live; yet it is also life-affirming, funny and shot through with hope.'Life is full of small details that we tuck away somewhere to revisit when we need them most: the calming sound of the sea, that childlike joy when you feel the sun hit your face on an early February morning. These small details knitted together, make up our perfect, ordinary lives. Few understood the importance of these more than Sarah Hughes, who lived with terminal metastatic cancer for over three years and who died in April 2021. This book is a celebration of everything that can make up a life, and how to hold it all close: how to cherish the perspective-changing, exhale-bringing perspective of a trashy novel; how to find the upside of chemo (finally being able to fit into flippy french tea dresses); how to explore the intimate topography of a body that's yours and yours alone. For fans of Matt Haig and Maggie O'Farrell, this is a tender word-of-mouth bestseller: the sort of book you'll press into the hands of your friends, family and a stranger in a bookshop.Trade ReviewPacks in wisdom and wit, grace and frivolity... Her writing never fails to console, but it does so without cushioning reality's jagged edges. -- Hephzibah Anderson * The Observer *A lively rattle-bag of a memoir -- Helen Brown * The Telegraph *

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Book SynopsisIn a great Irish tradition of autobiographical fiction that includes James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark, Parker’s poignant novel depicts events surrounding the amputation of his left leg as a nineteen-year-old university student. Masterful vignettes present the callow protagonist’s life before, during and after this ordeal. Belfast, drear locus of rain and despond, contributes to the heaviness at the novel’s heart, as its characters strive to rise above the pervasive melancholy of the city and find some human happiness that they can share. Tosh, Parker’s alter-ego, is drifting through life before his cancer diagnosis, plagued by the twin ‘cankers’ of a puzzling pain in the leg and a crippling loneliness. The amputation forces him into a more authentic relationship with life, which ‘Starts with the wound. Ends with the kiss. For the lucky ones.’ This remarkable, posthumously edited work, largely written in the early 1970s, prefigures the skills Parker would demonstrate in his plays: plainspoken and stoical in tone, the emotion seeps through a membrane of numb reserve. The writing is impressionistically vivid, the descriptions of pain and discomfort wholly authoritative. Hopdance is a beautiful, sincere, personal testament by a true artist, a wondrous ‘lost treasure’ of literature now presented to its reading public.Trade Review[Marilynn Richtarik] has edited this novel/memoir with the utmost care and brought it into being via a terrific Lilliput Press edition. -- Connal Parr * Culture Northern Ireland *[The novel's] vivid depictions of his alter-ego Tosh’s self-consciousness, shock and physical and emotional suffering may surprise readers who know Parker only from his witty dramatic works. Considering the relationship between this novel and his better-known achievement as a playwright, however, enhances one’s appreciation of both. -- Marilynn Richtarik * The Irish Times *As the editor of Stewart Parker’s unfinished novel Hopdance, Marilynn Richtarik doesn’t defy any last wishes from the Northern Irish playwright, but she has certainly added to the body of Irish literature from notable 20th-century writers. -- Sarah Gilmartin * The Irish Times *

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Book SynopsisThis is my Brain Cancer Memoir Tale. For years now I've blindly followed suit. Late 2018 they found a lemon in the back of my caput and took it out for all the world to look. They took some of my best moves, left me a shuddering hulk and stopped me walking too far in front. To fail and fail and fail, I've fallen back into my castle of frail. The Holy Grail may well be far away, but my broken Brain still remains today. Symptoms and side-effects and explanations for why I fall over so much. I'm not the man I was before. It takes me a little time to do my thing, I’m sure, but slowly I'll get to where I was before.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Figures and TablesList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. A Team ApproachChapter 1. Early Days with Molly E. Collins, MDChapter 2. Working with Patients' Families with Arden O'Donnell, MPH, MSW, LICSW, APHSW-CChapter 3. Spiritual Care in Palliative Care with Rev. Katie Pakos Rimer, MDiv, EdD, BCCChapter 4. Sexuality, Intimacy, and Cancer with Amanda Moment, MSW, LICSWChapter 5. Advancing Disease with Molly E. Collins, MDPart II. Pain Control, Symptom Management, and Psychological ConsiderationsChapter 6. Assessing the Patient in PainChapter 7. Pharmacologic Management of Cancer PainChapter 8. Nonpharmacologic Strategies in Palliative CareChapter 9. Psychological Considerations with Hermioni L. Amonoo, MD, MPPChapter 10. Managing Other Distressing ProblemsPart III. End of Life and BereavementChapter 11. Approaching the End: Concerns of Patients and Their Families at the End of LifeChapter 12. The Last DaysChapter 13. Bereavement with Bethany-Rose Daubman, MDIndex

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Book SynopsisA behind-the-scenes look inside three key trials involving Monsanto's weed killer Roundup, cancer, and the search for justicewritten by an expert witness medical oncologist who lived it all. For years, Monsanto declared that their product Roundup, the world's most widely used weed killer, was safe. But that all changed in 2015, when the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) analyzed data from scientific studies and concluded that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is probably carcinogenic.The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) disagreed, other regulatory agencies got involved, and scientists clamored to understand the link between glyphosate and cancer. Toxic Exposure tells the true story of numerous patients who developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a form of cancer, after using Roundup and their ensuing trials against Monsanto (now owned by Bayer, one of the largest agrochemical companies in the world). Written by Chadi Nabhan, MD, MBA, a cancer specialist, tTrade ReviewThe author describes keeping his compassion for patients front and center despite tough grilling by Monsanto's lawyers and sharpening his resolve by remembering that he was there to help ameliorate suffering.Readers are invited along for the ride: sweating on the witness stand, hanging on the lawyers' every word, hoping for the truth to prevail.—Civil EatsTable of ContentsAuthor's NotePrefaceChapter 1. The Phone CallChapter 2. The First MeetingChapter 3. The EPAChapter 4. Meeting Mr. JohnsonChapter 5. The Night Before the Daubert HearingChapter 6. Coming to AmericaChapter 7. Daubert DayChapter 8. The Johnson Trial BeginsChapter 9. My Trial TestimonyChapter 10. The Johnson VerdictChapter 11. HardemanChapter 12. The Second Trial BeginsChapter 13. VerdictsChapter 14. PilliodsChapter 15. The Third Trial BeginsChapter 16. Another Day in CourtChapter 17. JudgmentChapter 18. EndingsGlossaryResourcesAcknowledgments

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Book SynopsisBeing diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer while bringing up two growing children, holding down a full time job, going through a break-up and having three days to adjust to a life-changing operation is far from ideal. Add to this a short period of remission, a new relationship, followed by an unexpected relapse and the whole thing starting again, and you know you are going to be in for an interesting read. Bowel cancer, despite being the UK’s second biggest cancer killer still receives a shockingly low level of funding. This book aims in to help this, but to also tell Rachel's unique story of survival. Her experience presents a wake-up call to what’s important in life and the truth about surviving against the odds. This book is a funny and enlightening story about physical survival and then the messy psychological legacy of unexpected survival. Of wake-up calls that failed and an overwhelming urge to finally make sense of a life that Rachel was not expected to see. What lies beneath survival is the realisation that the end of treatment is not the end of the story. What doesn’t kill you ...

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Book SynopsisBroken, desperate and humiliated, I entered the house. When I saw Steve and Katherine, my heart felt like it was going to explode in agony. They did not deserve this madness in their lives ...' Cut off by a dense fog of post-natal depression and anxiety, Hazel Rolston felt pushed beyond the edge. But when the grim voice of Despair offered her the path of suicide, she knew instinctively that this was not God's way for her. Hazel doesn't offer us a formula for instant escape. But she does remind us that God is there, even if our feelings say the opposite. No matter how bad things feel, God is faithful to his wounded, broken people beyond the edge.

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Book SynopsisA masterful synchronization of history and cutting-edge science shines new light on humanity's darkest diagnosis. Over 50,000 copies sold! "Tripping over the Truth will have profound consequences for how cancer is managed and prevented."—Thomas N. Seyfried, author of Cancer as a Metabolic Disease In the wake of the Cancer Genome Atlas project's failure to provide a legible roadmap to a cure for cancer, science writer Travis Christofferson illuminates a promising blend of old and new perspectives on the disease. Tripping over the Truth follows the story of cancer’s proposed metabolic origin from the vaunted halls of the German scientific golden age to modern laboratories around the world. The reader is taken on a journey through time and science that results in an unlikely connecting of the dots with profound therapeutic implications. Transporting us on a rich narrative of humanity’s struggle to understand the cellular events that conspire to form malignancy, Tripping over the Truth reads like a detective novel, full of twists and cover-ups, blind-alleys and striking moments of discovery by men and women with uncommon vision, grit, and fortitude. Ultimately, Christofferson arrives at a conclusion that challenges everything we thought we knew about the disease, suggesting the reason for the failed war against cancer stems from a flawed paradigm that categorizes cancer as an exclusively genetic disease. For anyone affected by this terrifying disease and the physicians who struggle to treat it, this book provides a fresh and hopeful perspective. It explores the new and exciting non-toxic therapies born from the emerging metabolic theory of cancer. These therapies may one day prove to be a turning point in the struggle against our ancient enemy. We are shown how the metabolic theory redraws the battle map, directing researchers to approach cancer treatment from a different angle, framing it more like a gentle rehabilitation rather than all-out combat. In a sharp departure from the current “targeted” revolution occurring in cancer pharmaceuticals, the metabolic therapies highlighted have one striking feature that sets them apart—the potential to treat all types of cancer because they exploit the one weakness that is common to every cancer cell: dysfunctional metabolism. With a foreword by Dr. Dominic D'Agostino, PhD and contributions from Thomas Seyfried, PhD, author of Cancer as a Metabolic Disease; Miriam Kalamian, EdM, MS, CNS, author of Keto for Cancer; and Beth Zupec Kania, consultant nutritionist of The Charlie Foundation. "Brilliant, timely, and expertly consolidated . . . It reads like a novel and is easy to comprehend for everyone interested in the new conversation around cancer and cancer care. I recommend it to patients, family, friends, and colleagues and refer back to it often.”—Dr. Nasha Winters, ND, coauthor of The Metabolic Approach to CancerTrade Review"Travis Christofferson provides a compelling historical account of how cancer has been misunderstood as a genetic disease when, in fact, it is a type of metabolic disease. Unlike normal cells, which obtain their energy from respiration, cancer cells have damaged respiration and obtain much of their energy from the primitive process of fermentation. Travis describes how the mutations in tumors arise as an effect of respiratory damage and cannot be the cause or drivers of cancer. The information presented in Tripping over the Truth will have profound consequences for how cancer is managed and prevented. Metabolic therapies will be more effective and less toxic than the current gene- or immune-based therapies and have the potential to significantly improve quality of life and long-term survival for millions of cancer patients worldwide.”--Thomas N. Seyfried, PhD, author of Cancer as a Metabolic Disease“I absolutely loved Dr. Seyfried’s book, Cancer as a Metabolic Disease, and Dr. Mukherjee’s book, The Emperor of all Maladies, but it was difficult to get my patients to read these two books to understand the history of cancer and the cancer industry, not to mention the movement from the somatic to the metabolic theory of cancer, both intimidating subjects. Then, along came Travis Christofferson’s brilliant, timely, and expertly consolidated book. It reads like a novel and is easy to comprehend for everyone interested in the new conversation around cancer and cancer care. I recommend it to patients, family, friends, and colleagues and refer back to it often.”--Dr. Nasha Winters, ND, coauthor of The Metabolic Approach to Cancer“Phenomenal…required reading for anyone who has cancer or knows someone who has cancer…I cannot stress its importance enough. Get yourself a copy, and read it.”--Dr. Joseph Mercola, founder and director, mercola.com“The author takes us on over a hundred-year exciting journey of the research to understand and eradicate this disease…This is a great scientific mystery book…This book is for everyone, but should be read by all physicians that treat cancer. I congratulate the author for a marvelous job and highly recommend this book.”--Robert L. Elliot, MD, PhD“An iconoclastic, information-rich narrative that boldly challenges our current understanding and treatment of cancer. Christofferson persuasively argues and documents why a restricted calorie, high (good) fat diet should at least be considered for most malignancies. An absolute must-read to understand the history and evolution of present day cancer therapy.”--Joseph C. Maroon, MD, Author of The Longevity Factor

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Book SynopsisIn 2013, Mick May was diagnosed with the fatal asbestos-linked cancer, mesothelioma, whose average medical life expectancy is 10 months. Seven years later he is flourishing, full of joie de vivre, with a long life-expectancy ahead of him. His case has made medical history and is giving new hope to a multitude of terminally ill cancer sufferers around the world. Mick's medical journey makes for a fascinating read as it weaves from the pain of his many treatments to the pleasures of his frequent fishing trips to British and exotic International rivers. Threaded into this are snapshots of Mick's creation and leadership of a leading offender rehabilitation charity; his deepening religious faith; his successful legal action against the merchant bank whose offices exposed him to asbestos in the 1980s; his chairmanship of a school ravaged by the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire tragedy, and the happiness of his family life with his remarkable wife and six children.Trade ReviewThis quirky, intriguing and inspirational memoir is the sort of book you could admire and enjoy even if you had not the slightest interest in fishing.A tale of tails, fishy and fabulous, and in aid of an important cause, full of humour full of heart.In his new book, each milestone, struggle and success is portrayed against a backdrop of fishing. May writes honestly and humorously of days by the river transporting him to "another world".An inspiring bookFishing is the balm to all troubles, frequently on the Mottisfont beat of his beloved River Test, but also as far afield as Patagonia and Russia. There cannot be many anglers for whom the diagnosis of a killer disease results in a dramatic increase in catches, but Mick May is one of them.We highly recommend you read this inspiring bookThe two stories – those of his love of fishing and that of his ordeal against cancer – are masterfully intervoven into a compelling story of joy, despair, and release.Table of ContentsForeword My world changes: 20 May 2013 The beast and the beauty: late May and early June 2013 Why? My formative years: 1958–1986 Prayer My own personal Capuzzo: June–July 2013 The family arrives: 1987–2002 Reckoning ~ the start of a long process: September 2013 Oncology and Sanjay Popat Managing chemotherapy Making good on a promise: 26 May 2014 Approaching maturity: 2003–2012 A long-term future for Blue Sky Outshone and nearly defeated: 21 July 2014 The kindness of strangers: 25–27 August 2014 Trout: 2015 Tackle–tackle: July 2015 Reckoning ~ the end of a long process: April 2016 A better day than might have been: 20 June 2016 Expectations upturned: July 2016 Lille: January 2017 The meaning of loss: early June 2017 Respite of sorts: late June 2017 The seeds of the miraculous: October 2017 Going home: July 2018 At sea: August 2018 ‘Celebrate tonight, come on’: 29 September 2018 Hope springs eternal: 17 October 2018 Girl power Don’t cry for me: Argentina, 13–18 January 2019 Up the Varzuga: 11–17 May 2019 An advance in the treatment of difficult cancers: Professor Sanjay Popat A pause to the saga Acknowledgements CRUK Donation

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