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Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"According to the National Cancer Institute, there are an estimated 13.7 million living Americans who are cancer survivors. The institute expects that number to rise to almost 18 million over the next decade. The Institute of Medicine notes that patientsdiagnosed with cancer have an estimated 64% chance of surviving five years, up from 50% three decades ago. And most of them have lingering symptoms, both physical and emotional. The Cancer Survivor...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This art-based research thesis project offered eight women who are breast cancer survivors the opportunity of creating and adorning a plaster life-cast of their torso and through creative expression explore ways of finding meaning in their cancer experience, working through personal difficulties, improving sense-of-self and sense of well-being, and enhancing self-empowerment. The major goal of this study was to observe the ways that the creative process...
8) Breast cancer husband: how to help your wife (and yourself) through diagnosis, treatment, and beyond
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Iris (or balletgirl-42 as she's know on the internet dating circuit) is a zookeeper looking for love when she is diagnosed with breast cancer. Overnight, her life becomes populated with a carnival of daunting hospital characters. Despite the attempts of her friends - Maud, Granma Suggs, Larry the Monkey and a group of singing penguins - to offer comfort, Iris's fears begin to encircle her until all she has to cling to is the attention of a lighthouse...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A fresh, fierce, and timely meditation on data, pain, time, and the limited capacity of literature to comprehend life and death in a sensate and vulnerable body." --
When Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer, the illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. Here she explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"Built on her wildly popular Modern Love column, 'When a Couch is More Than a Couch' (9/23/2016), a breathtaking memoir of living meaningfully with 'death in the room' by the 38 year old great-great-great granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, mother to two young boys, wife of 16 years, after her terminal cancer diagnosis"--