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On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey, an American Liberty ship carrying a top-secret cargo of 2...

Passados dois anos da publicação de seu primeiro livro, Enquanto eu respirar, a jornalista Ana Michelle Soares segue inteira na vida. Em 2011, aos 28 anos, ela foi diagnosticada com um câncer de mama. Aos 32, a doença voltou e atingiu outros órgãos, sem possibilidade de cura. Agora, entre tratamentos e remissões, ela busca o que realmente importa: o sentido de estar aqui. Nesta obra AnaMi se rende à liberdade de descobrir que um diagnóstico não se resume ao que dita a biologia. Com mais paixão do que nunca, ela fala apenas de vida.

Мало какое заболевание или состояние человеческого организма окружено таким количеством мифов и домыслов, как рак. При этом в основе многих мифов лежат отголоски реальных научных теорий, до неузнаваемости искаженных «устным народным творчеством» в пересудах и пересказах. Автор книги, молекулярный биолог Мария Кондратова, работающая в парижском Институте Кюри, поставила перед собой задачу отделить зерна от плевел и дать читателю доступное, но вместе с тем научное представление о природе раковых заболеваний и современных подходах к их диагностике и лечению.

When Anthony Sobb’s wife, Kim, was diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer, their world changed overnight. Instead of surrendering to the diagnosis, they chose to fight, to push boundaries, and to live as fully as possible for as long as they could. My Business Is Now North is a powerful memoir of love, loss, and survival. After Kim’s death, Anthony is left to raise their three sons while navigating the overwhelming reality of grief and rebuilding a life without the person he loved most.

Pink Lemonade: How We Dealt With Our Lemons, is an inspiring narrative of four diverse women united by their breast cancer journeys. The book delves into the raw emotions and realities faced, yet it is an uplifting testament to the resilience of the human spirit, offering valuable insights beyond the medical facts. It's a must-hear that celebrates the power of hope, camaraderie, and courage, reminding us that even when life gives us lemons, we can make pink lemonade.

Everything you need to know about breast health and breast cancer in one place, essential advice you can trust from Mount Sinai’s Chief of Breast Surgery, Dr. Elisa Port, and her patients. Breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting women in the United States. There are 300,000 women...

She was forty-four, the picture of health—a devoted mother of four, a daily runner, a kale enthusiast who never smoked a day in her life. But when she signed up for a routine health scan “just to be safe,” she discovered the unthinkable: fast-growing stage I lung cancer. In her searing and hopeful memoir, Shira Kupperman Boehler tells the story of how one moment upended everything—and how it may have saved her life.

At the age of twenty-two, Phil Z was diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Instead of starting his new career as a fourth-grade teacher and getting engaged to the love of his life, he experienced uncertainty and despair in the face of tests, surgeries, appointments, medications, and a myriad of devastating symptoms caused by both cancer and treatment.

In Cancer and the New Biology of Water, Thomas Cowan argues that this failure was inevitable because the oncogene theory is incorrect or at least incomplete and based on a flawed concept of biology in which DNA controls our cellular function and therefore our health. Instead, Dr. Cowan tells us the somatic mutations seen in cancer cells are the result of a cellular deterioration that has little to do with oncogenes, DNA, or even the nucleus.

À 51 ans, Nathalie se fait dire que son pancréas est comme un gruyère. Quelques mois plus tard, elle apprend qu'elle est atteinte du cancer du pancréas, le terrible, celui dont le taux de survie n'est que de 10 % tous stades confondus. Nathalie a su transformer ses défis en source de courage et de détermination. Elle ne se laisse pas abattre par les statistiques mais se laisse plutôt guider par sa volonté de vivre. Sa curiosité s’active, elle s’informe à différentes sources, elle expérimente et fait preuve de discernement dans le but de prendre des décisions éclairées.

Was unsere Seele braucht, wenn wir an Krebs erkranken Unerwartet und erschütternd ist die Diagnose, die das Leben der bekannten Psychotherapeutin Ulrike Döpfner auf den Kopf stellt: Liposarkom, ein bösartiger Tumor des Weichteilgewebes. Üblicherweise ist sie es, die Menschen berät. Nun muss...

Dr. Sebi’s Simple Cure for Cancer reveals a transformative, holistic path rooted in Dr. Sebi’s powerful teachings. This guide focuses on supporting the body through alkaline foods, herbal detoxes, fasting, and emotional wellness—helping you restore balance from the inside out.

After Annabelle Gurwitch received an out-of-the blue diagnosis of Stage 4 lung cancer, an existential dread set in. Precision medicine offered a temporary reprieve—but instead of turning into a cancer warrior, Annabelle declared herself a cancer slacker. Her motto: no runs, no ribbons, no religion. Told with her signature wit, warmth, and gimlet eye, Gurwitch draws inspiration from Greek mythology and TV comedies, Kermit the Frog and Samuel Beckett.

In this bold, paradigm-shifting book, the founder of the influential Fenbendazole Can Cure Cancer Substack uncovers the revolutionary cancer-fighting potential of a surprising source: fenbendazole—a widely available, low-cost antiparasitic medication with decades of proven safety. Cancer Is a Parasite offers a meticulously researched yet deeply personal journey into the science, case studies, and cutting-edge theories behind fenbendazole’s remarkable effects on cancer.

In Holding On & Letting Go: A Story of Love, Life, & Loss, the author shares a deeply personal journey following his wife Marie's diagnosis of stage IV metastatic breast cancer. This life-altering event transformed their shared voyage, shifting from fear to a profound exploration of love and purpose.

Bloomsbury presents The Luckiest Unlucky Couple by Alicia C. Shepard, read by Katherine Fenton. The story goes something like this: successful journalist and author, Alicia (Lisa), in her late 50s, is single and mostly happy but has given up on finding love again after her first marriage ended...

Parte de los beneficios del autor de este título de devolverá a la Fundación Aladina. 'CÁNCER: AMENAZA Y OPORTUNIDAD Hay libros que nos invitan a superarnos y libros de experiencias reales que, sencillamente, nos muestran cómo hacerlo, y cómo convertir una amenaza llamada cáncer en una...

By the time she was thirty, Gila Pfeffer was the oldest living member of her family, having lost her mother to breast cancer and her father to colon cancer. A simple blood test confirmed she carried the BRCA1 gene-which put her at high risk of developing cancer herself. Determined to break the cycle of early death in her family, Gila decides to undergo an elective double mastectomy. This memoir follows her journey as she becomes a reluctant expert on how to sit shiva, grows up, falls in love, and enters motherhood, before her life is derailed yet again. 

Accessible, heartfelt, and witty, this short collection of simple, practical tips offers self-care, healing, and recovery, from a stage-3 breast cancer survivor. “Before I started my treatment, I spoke to an oncologist at Johns Hopkins. He said, ‘Travis, you have to make room for treatment...

How does a mere moleculea chemical structurebecome a drug? And how do we know that it works safely? In a one-trillion-dollar pharmaceutical industry with high-stakes profits and perils, battles are raging every day to successfully bring a molecule to its birth: an FDA-approved medicine. In Race...