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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.
4) Cancer
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Describes how cancer is diagnosed and treated and how different kinds of cancer affect the body differently and why some types are deadlier than others.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Two things got Rarity Cole through her breast cancer treatments: friends and books. Now cancer-free, Rarity is devoting her life to helping others find their way through the maze to healing. She's opened a bookstore focusing on the power of healing--Eastern medicine, Western medicine, the healing power of food, the power of meditation, and the importance of developing a support community. To that end, she's also started the Tuesday Night Survivors...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The key to breast cancer prevention is awareness, education and early detection. This program is part of our women's health series designed to comply with the Joint Commission standards for education of patients and family and was awarded a National Telly Award for Education.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hunter House
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Positive Options for Colorectal Cancer offers readers everything they need to know about understanding and dealing with colorectal cancer. It presents detailed information in a clear and concise manner from a well-known advocate and author who is a personal survivor of Stage III colorectal cancer for more than 20 years. Chapters present information on prevention techniques, warning signs, and screening tests including the latest on virtual colonoscopy...
Author
Publisher
Hunter House
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
For most women and their families, a diagnosis of breast cancer is both devastating and confusing. Questions about the disease, its cause, treatment, and prognosis, can be overwhelming at such a difficult time. By gathering together all the latest information available on the subject, this book helps women better understand their illness and enables them to make knowledgeable choices about their care. Among topics discussed are the pros and cons of...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Just what is a jackalope? Purported to be part jackrabbit and part antelope, the jackalope began as a local joke concocted by two young brothers in a small Wyoming town during the Great Depression. Their creation quickly spread around the U.S., where it now regularly appears as innumerable forms of kitsch--wall mounts, postcards, keychains, coffee mugs, shot glasses, and so on. A vast body of folk narratives has carried the jackalope's fame around...
11) Ma Ma
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Oscar-winner Penelope Cruz delivers the performance of her career as Magda, a woman who is determined to live life to the fullest in the face of her recent breast cancer diagnosis.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Colorectal, or bowel cancer is a malignant tumour in the colon or rectum and usually occurs in middle and later life. Treatment is normally by surgical removal of the affected part of the colon or rectum. Adults with colorectal cancer face a number of issues, not least of which is overcoming a life-threatening illness. Living with bowel cancer is a difficult and emotional journey. This Speaking from experience program offers offer first-hand accounts...
17) Letters to God
Publisher
Possibility Pictures
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A young boy with cancer touches a community when he writes letters to God to help him with his struggle.
Author
Language
English
Description
"This fully revised sixth edition explains the biology behind the clinical options. Whether a reader is at risk and interested in prevention, diagnosed and trying to prevent recurrence, or living with metastatic cancer and seeking ways to survive longer and better, Dr. Love provides the most expert and reassuring support. This revision discusses the new genetic tests, controversies regarding screening, and what you need to know about dense breasts....
20) Say good-bye
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Seeing Jane's dog, Yum-Yum, help cheer up children in a cancer ward makes Zoe think about having her puppy, Sneakers, trained to do therapy, too, especially when Yum-Yum becomes very ill.
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