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Language
English
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In 2016, Rob Delaney's one-year-old son, Henry, was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The family had moved from Los Angeles to London with their two young boys when Rob's wife was pregnant with Henry, their third. The move was an adventure that would bind them even more tightly together as they navigated the novelty of London, the culture clashes, and the funhouse experience of Rob's fame--thanks to his role as co-creator and co-star of the hit series...
Author
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A traditionally educated oncologist presents a cutting-edge, whole-person approach to cancer's treatment and causes. Cancer as a Wake-Up Call is an easy-to-read guide to an integrative approach to preventing and treating cancer. Conventional medicine focuses on attacking cancer cells, but doesn't address why a person gets sick. But cancer is a systemic disease manifesting a global condition locally. In this well-researched volume, oncologist Mariacute;...
Author
Publisher
W Publishing, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A comprehensive guide to total breast health from the go-to breast care expert for Good Morning America and The Doctors. One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer over the course of their lives, and breast cancer is the #1 killer of women ages 20-59. But did you know that only 15 percent of those diagnosed have a single relative with breast cancer? For most of us, family history and genetics do not determine who gets breast cancer--we...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
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Language
English
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"These involving stories, along with Macomber's familiar characters, continue the Blossom Street themes…that readers find so moving." —Booklist
Come back to Blossom Street, where you’ll find everything you’re looking for, from yarn and flowers, to friendship… Enjoy again the beloved series from #1 New York Times bestselling...
Come back to Blossom Street, where you’ll find everything you’re looking for, from yarn and flowers, to friendship… Enjoy again the beloved series from #1 New York Times bestselling...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
People with a cancer diagnosis wonder what they can eat. Odile Fernandez, a family doctor who beat ovarian cancer with metastases, assures the reader that food is a tool to successfully complete treatment. The book explores the effects of different foods on various diseases. A real anticancer bible, based on a vision that is already known as integrative oncology.
"Una obra idónea para todas aquellas personas que quieran adoptar un estilo de vida...
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Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and death, and a kaleidoscopic journey through one woman's life--told in part by the malevolent voice of her disease."
"Lia, her husband Harry, and their beloved daughter, Iris, are a precisely balanced family of three. With Iris struggling to navigate the social tightrope of early adolescence, their tender home is a much-needed refuge. But when a sudden...
Publisher
Cinema Libre Distribution
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A 15 year-old boy goes on a mission to determine if what Dr. Max Gerson wrote in his controversial book is a legitimate alternative cure for cancer. After numerous interviews with doctors, skeptics, members of Gerson's family, and cancer patients, it became abundantly clear that a cure for virtually all cancers and chronic diseases does exist, and it has existed for over 80 years.
11) The honest truth
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boy named Mark, tired of being sick with cancer, conceives a plan to climb Mount Rainier, and runs away from home with his dog, Beau--but with over two hundred miles between him and his goal, and only anger at his situation to drive him on nothing will be easy, and only his best friend, Jessie, suspects where he is heading.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A young altar boy questions his impoverished family's hard-line Catholic beliefs in the face of his father's weapons-plant job, his mother's diagnosis with cancer, and a peer's struggles against the pressures of growing up too fast.
15) The mutations
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A modern-day Flaubert takes us on a comic tour through a deeply neurotic Mexico City. Ramón Martinez is a militant atheist, successful lawyer, and conventional family man. But all of that changes when his privileged life disintegrates after cancer of the tongue deprives him of the source of his power and livelihood: speech. Jorge Comensal's The Mutations is a comedy tracing the metastasis of Ramón's cancer through his body and through the lives...
16) Living proof
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Dr. Dennis Slamon, an oncologist and researcher who must make sacrifices in his personal life while on his quest to find a cure for breast cancer.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Pancho is bent on avenging the senseless death of his sister, but after he meets D.Q, who is dying of cancer, and Marisol, one of D.Q.'s caregivers, both boys find their lives changed by their interactions.
18) Muchas células
Author
Publisher
Palmetto Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Ser diagnosticado con cáncer altera la vida de muchas maneras. Pero no solo para el paciente, los niños también se ven profundamente afectados. Este libro infantil bellamente ilustrado le ayudará a tratar el tema de una manera afectuosa y a tener una conversación difícil con un niño, sobre la enfermedad de su ser querido. Es un tema delicado, pero queremos que los niños se acerquen a esta nueva experiencia de una manera positiva. Cada página...
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Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When eighteen-year-old Tommy Baxter declares he wants to be a police officer after graduation, his mother, Reagan, won't hear of it. She's still mourning the death of her own father on September 11 and she's determined to keep her son safe from danger and disaster. Tommy's father Luke arranges for his son to take part in a ride-along program with the Indianapolis Police Department. Meanwhile, Tommy is in love: Annalee Miller has been a family friend...
20) Ikiru =: To live
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
日本語
Description
Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quiety fulfilled.
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