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Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Using clear, reader-friendly text, this book explains this vital and ever-evolving field, with the aim of helping women make informed decisions by understanding breast cancer, associated screenings and treatments, as well as their benefits, risks, and limitations"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A sensitive and authoritative guide to the most common cancer in women: breast cancer. Covering everything from prevention to dealing with a diagnosis to coping with life after cancer, it serves as a trusted resource for anyone whose life has been touched by this dreaded disease. Advancements in breast cancer prevention, detection, and treatment are being made every day, but it can be overwhelming and confusing knowing where to turn and who to trust....
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Pink ribbons are everywhere: T-shirts, hats, yogurt cups, KFC buckets, car ads, NFL stadiums - the list goes on and on. They make people feel good, as if engaged in a successful battle against breast cancer. But who is really benefitting? More and more women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year. Wouldn't it be something if some of the very companies that profit from their pink marketing campaigns have actually contributed to the epidemic by...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When a cancer nurse becomes a cancer patient, she has to confront the most critical, terrified, sometimes furious patient she's ever encountered: herself. A frank look at struggling with illness while navigating the health care maze"--
52) Banshee
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Samantha Baxter has a full, sane life; creative job, lovely family, and all the trappings of middle-age happiness. But when she gets a diagnosis that terrifies her, a lifetime of polite pleasing and putting others first ignites in her a surprising, pure rage.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Kate Pickert worked as a health-care journalist and knew medical treatment well, but it all changed when she was diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer at age 35. Pickert used her journalistic skills to identify the cultural, scientific, and historical forces shaping the lives of breast-cancer patients in the modern age.
56) Anna in-between
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Anna In-Between is Elizabeth Nunez's finest literary achievement to date. In spare prose, with laser-like attention to every word and the juxtaposition of words to each other, Nunez returns to her themes of emotional alienation, within the context of class and color discrimination, so richly developed in her earlier novels.
Anna, the novel's main character, who has a successful publishing career in the U.S., is the daughter of an upper-class Caribbean...
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