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1) Eating well through cancer: easy recipes & tips to guide you through treatment and cancer prevention
Author
Publisher
Favorite Recipes Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Chemotherapy, radiation or surgery can affect the patient's appetite, so the chapters include nourishing foods that are best tolerated to ease common side effects such as nausea, sore mouth and throat, taste changes, neutropenia and weight loss. This practical cookbook has an easier-to-read format, simple nutritious recipes, beautiful photographs, tips and information that will guide a cancer patient through their treatment. Super-satisfying recipes...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This book makes cancer understandable to a wide audience by combining science with humor, while accurately capturing the current state of knowledge in this rapidly changing field of medicine"--
"A compelling guide to understanding cancer and embracing life.Rogue Cells is the essential guide to navigating cancer diagnosis and treatment. Coauthored by Dr. Richard J. Jones, an internationally renowned cancer physician and researcher, and T. Michael...
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Author Dr. Jason Fung returns with a biography of cancer in which he offers a radical new paradigm for understanding cancer and issues a call to action for reducing risk moving forward"--
Our understanding of cancer is slowly undergoing a revolution, allowing for the development of more effective treatments. For the first time ever, the death rate from cancer is showing a steady decline-- but the 'War on Cancer' has hardly been won. Fung explains...
Publisher
Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"After decades of research devoted to women's health, a federal agency focused on women's health, and millions of dollars allocated to address women's health disparities, African American women are still the sickest American citizens. This book examines why. Written by an all-female, all-African American team of health experts that include nurse practitioners, registered nurses, educators, and psychologists, this book focuses on the diseases and related...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
The supermodel and TV host culls the best advice from her favorite doctors, fitness gurus, dietitians, and experts to present practical advice, proven tips, recipes, products, and regimens, from raw eating to chemical-free cosmetics, for living a cleaner, greener lifestyle.
Series
Publisher
American Cancer Society/Health Promotions
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
This pocket-sized reference covers everything from the risk factors of melanoma skin cancer to the diagnosis procedure to living well after treatment. With greater public awareness, early detection of melanoma skin cancer is on the rise and mortality rates are declining; this medical guide emphasizes that all patients should be well-informed decision makers in planning their own treatment and is updated with the latest patient treatment guidelines....
Author
Language
English
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Description
While Dr. Forsythe offers his patients conventional and alternative therapies on their own, as well as an integrative option, 'Take control of your cancer' encourages cancer patients and their families to explore their treatment options and look for doctors who personalize treatment for optimal outcomes.
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"For more than fifty years, we have been waging, but not winning, the war on cancer. We're better than ever at treating the disease, yet cancer still claims the lives of one in five men and one in six women in the US. The astonishing news is that up to two-thirds of all cancer cases are linked to preventable environmental causes. If we can stop cancer before it begins, why don't we? That was the question that motivated Kristina Marusic's revelatory...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Prism
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Kathryn Schmitz overturned years of entrenched dogma and conventional wisdom that told breast cancer survivors to avoid upper body exercise with the publication of two ground-breaking scientific papers in the most prestigious medical journals in the world, the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association. In the ensuing decade, Dr. Schmitz has made it her personal mission to use exercise for cancer prevention...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Cervical cancer kills almost 350,000 women each year. What's more horrifying is that millions have died of a disease that's nearly 100% preventable. It's no secret that health care is full of inequities, with a severe lack of accessible screening programs. But women's health care is also impeded by cultural, gender, and political barriers, issues that have combined to create devastating consequences. A leading expert in cervical cancer prevention,...
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"These smart checklists make it easy to be proactive in managing and organizing your breast health and breast cancer treatment. Breast cancer afflicts more than 200,000 women per year in the US alone. And anyone with a family history of the disease, or who knows someone who has succumbed to or survived breast cancer, understands the importance of screening and prevention. With indispensable advice from an acclaimed radiologist and expert in breast...
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A provocative and surprising investigation into the ways that profit, personalities, and politics obstruct real progress in the war on cancer--and one doctor's passionate call to action for change from an emphasis on curing cancer to one of preventing it.
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