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En l'an deux mil, mon conjoint a reçu un diagnostic de cancer du poumon et des os, stade 4. Il était inopérable et avait une espérance de vie de 30 jours. Quinze ans plus tard, mon mari est toujours en vie, sans aucune récidive. La grande question : "Mais qu'est-ce qu'il a fait pour s'en sortir ?" C'est ce que je vous présente aujourd'hui.

Brothers and sisters often dare each other to do things - it's what siblings do. However, when Connie Johnson dared her brother Samuel to embark on a one-wheeled odyssey around Australia, she knew it was a big ask. But Connie knew exactly what she was doing and was sure he wouldn't say no. Not...

Given the undeniable reality of a cancer diagnosis, how can you create joy, health, and hope? On Cancer as a Turning Point Volume II, 11 inspiring authors, many of whom are thriving after cancer diagnoses, reframe the healing process in a positive, creative, and spiritual light. Central to this...

You're Not Alone brings listeners the actual voices of more than twenty women and men who have lived through breast cancer and who now want to be a friend to others by sharing their experiences, well-earned wisdom, humor, and advice.

Ich bin Krebs - und ich hatte Krebs: Trotzdem den Humor nicht verlieren. Auch Gedanken zu Alternativtherapien, Ernährung, Glaube. Hintergrundmusik vom Autor. Kabarettistisch aufbereitete Erlebnisse in der Klinik und rund um die Krebserkrankung. Dem Schicksal die lange Nase zeigen!

Im Jahr 2012 erhält Magde Conrad-Schneider die Diagnose Brustkrebs. Ein Schock! Die lebensfrohe, stets gut gelaunte Magde soll krank sein? Das kann nicht sein! Doch aufgeben kommt für die gestandene Krankenschwester nicht in Frage. Mit der Unterstützung ihrer Familie und guter Freunde nimmt sie den Kampf gegen den Krebs auf und stellt sich jeder neuen Herausforderung mit Kraft und Entschlossenheit. Eine spannende, fast unglaubliche Lebensgeschichte, die Mut macht und Hoffnung gibt und den Leser bis zum Schluss in ihren Bann zieht.

In her mid-30s Rebecca Loncraine was diagnosed with breast cancer. Two years later, and after months of gruelling treatment, she flew in a glider for the first time. In that engineless plane, soaring 3,000 feet over the landscape of her childhood with only the rising thermals to take her higher and the birds to lead the way, she fell in love. If illness meant Rebecca had lost touch with the world around her, gliding showed her a way to learn to live again.

When Eric Wendel was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 1966, the survival rate was less than 10 percent. Today, it is 90 percent. Even as politicians call for a "Cancer Moonshot", this accomplishment remains a pinnacle in cancer research. The author's daughter, then a medical student at Georgetown Medical School, told her father about this amazing success story. Tim Wendel soon discovered that many of the doctors at the forefront of this effort cared for his brother at Roswell Park in Buffalo, New York. Wendel went in search of this extraordinary group.

This is a singular memoir: an excavation of mother love, a candid account of the agonies and absurdities of the cancer experience and a doggedly optimistic paean to life. When Genevieve Fox finds a lump in her throat, she turns up for the hospital diagnosis in a party frock and fancy hair. I can't have cancer, she thinks. I've done my hair. But there is another reason she can't countenance cancer. Genevieve was orphaned to it at the age of nine.

Cancer rates continue to skyrocket, and the overall survival rate for stage IV cancer patients in the United States is a grim 2.1 percent. Clearly, the extensive use of expensive - sometimes ineffective - toxins in conventional oncology protocols is a failing strategy. Even the few survivors of these harsh slash-and-burn treatments can have a dismal quality of life, suffering with ailments such as nerve damage, heart muscle disease, and liver and kidney failure.

Are you facing or already undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer? Do you feel in need of some extra support at the emotional level? Would you like to learn some visualisation techniques that have helped other people cope better with both physical and emotional discomfort? If so, this relaxing, calming, comforting and uplifting recording may help you feel better in yourself and help you cope better with any possible side effects of chemotherapy.

Die Heilkräfte von Heidelbeere und Co. Zweifelsfrei erwiesen: Durch den Verzehr bestimmter Lebensmittel kann man das Krebsrisiko reduzieren! Die beiden Molekularmediziner präsentieren ihre aufsehenerregenden Forschungsergebnisse und zeigen, mit welchen Nahrungsmitteln man die besten Ergebnisse erzielen kann.

A remarkably frank, deeply moving, and inspiring memoir by Jai Pausch, whose husband, Randy, wrote the bestseller The Last Lecture while battling pancreatic cancer. "Jai is such a giver that she often forgets to take care of herself," Randy Pausch wrote about his wife. "Jai knows that...

This audio contains two best sellers that relate the extraordinary, courageous life of actress Jill Ireland. These revealing autobiographies cover the joys and tragedies of Ireland's life, from her marriage to movie star Charles Bronson, to their family of seven children, to her courageous battle with breast cancer, and the fight to save her 22-year-old son from the maze of drug addiction. These memoirs are candid, inspiring works from a truly remarkable woman.

Since serving as President Jimmy Carter's chief of staff in the late 1970s, Hamilton Jordan has survived three forms of cancer: non-Hodgkins lymphoma, melanoma, and prostate cancer. In this remarkable memoir, Jordan recounts his tumultuous adventures in the political arena and his successful journeys through the world of modern cancer treatment.

Tamoxifen hot flashes, mastectomy, reconstruction, breast cancer etiquette, Frankenboobs, bras with special attachments...Margaret Lesh shares it all in her funny, heartfelt collection of essays, anecdotes, and life lessons from the perspective of a two-time breast cancer survivor. She'll tell you when it's okay to play the cancer card, what you should take to the hospital, and gives suggestions on how to cope in those dark moments of the soul.  

One in three women in the United States will be diagnosed with cancer—a situation that can throw even the most self-assured individual into a crisis of body, mind, and spirit. To survive, and more than that, to thrive, we must rally all of our inner resources. On Cancer as a Turning Point...

“When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and the manner in which you live.” – Stuart Scott The fearless, intimate, and inspiring story behind ESPN anchor Stuart Scott’s unrelenting fight against cancer. Shortly before he...

Finding grace in the everyday…Kara Tippetts knows the ordinary days of mothering four kids, the joy of watching her children grow . . . and the devastating reality of stage IV cancer. In The Hardest Peace, Kara doesn’t offer answers for when living is hard, but rather she asks us to join her in moving away from fear and control and toward peace and grace. Most of all, she draws us back to the God who is with us in the mundane and the suffering, and who shapes even our unmet expectations and pain into beauty.

New York Times Bestseller A moving and inspiring memoir from the beloved sports broadcaster Craig Sager on his battle with leukemia and how he maintained a positive outlook on life in face of incredible circumstances. This program is read by Holter Graham and Craig Sager II. “Time is something...