Author: Nancy Keene, Wendy Hobbie, & Kathy Ruccione
Childhood Cancer Survivors
ISBN 1565924606 ppr
This is quite simply a must-have for all childhood cancer survivors. It covers a wide-range of topics, including a discussion of late effects, navigating the health care system as a survivor, and more. Childhood cancer survivors were interviewed for the book and their voices are woven throughout.
Author: Institute of Medicine, National Cancer Policy Board, Maria Hewitt, Susan L. Weiner, and Joseph V. Simone, Editors
Special Recommendation from: Karen
Childhood Cancer Survivors
ISBN 0696209624 ppr
This well-researched and -balanced reference book explains various therapies which are often considered alternatives by the general medical community, and yet are welcomed and trusted by others. Each therapy is explained, then the pros and cons of each are listed. This book can be a help in finding therapies which will complement your own needs and life style.
Author: Wendy S. Harpham
Memoir
ISBN 0060976780 ppr
In a poignant introduction describing her illness, the author tells of the changes one must confront after treatment. She makes it clear that there is no special formula for recovery, and that timetables are of no particular consequence because everyone is different. Her useful Q&A format candidly addresses many central questions: long-term side effects, probability of recurrences, diet considerations, coping with depression.
Author: Lucy Grealy
Special Recommendation from: Fran
Memoir
ISBN 0060569662 ppr
This book will likely be a difficult read, but is wonderfully written and has much to offer cancer survivors, especially those who childhood cancer survivors who were physically disfigured by treatments. Diagnosed at age nine with Ewing's sarcoma, a cancer that severely disfigured her face, Grealy lost half her jaw, recovered after two and half years of chemotherapy and radiation, then underwent plastic surgery over the next 20 years to reconstruct her jaw.
Author: Dan Shapiro
Memoir
ISBN 0375708014
The book is written by a long-term Hodgkin's survivor who was diagnosed at 22 and wrote the book at 34. It's a series of essays on his experience with cancer, but also his experiences with family, love, kids, work, and all of life. Though at times the book may make you cry, it will make you laugh. Mostly, it was a great validation of the experiences of having cancer as a young person.
Author: Steven R. Schechter
Special Recommendation from: Karen
Complementary & Alternative Medicine
ISBN 093618406X ppr
I first came across this book several years ago while searching for ways to combat the spinal and muscular deterioration I was experiencing from radiation therapy for childhood cancer in 1954. In this substantial book, Steven Schechter has provided excellent information, backed by extensive research. While the focus of this book is mainly physical contamination from environmental pollution, Fighting Radiation.
Author: Erma Bombeck
Special Recommendation from: Carolyn
Inspirational
This is quite simply a must-have for all childhood cancer survivors. It covers a wide-range of topics, including a discussion of late effects, navigating the health care system as a survivor, and more. Childhood cancer survivors were interviewed for the book and their voices are woven throughout.
Author: Rachel Naomi Remen
Special Recommendation from: Karen
Inspirational
ISBN 1573226106 ppr
A book which will open your heart and mind to the wonders and mysteries of life and death, and bring healing to your soul. Dr. Remen takes her rich experience as a doctor from a family of doctors, a cancer patient counselor, and a survivor of a chronic illness for over 40 years, invites you to share a cup of tea at her table, and keeps you spell-bound with her stories. And they are like no others. Many cancer survivors who have struggled.
Author: Peter Clarke & Susan H. Evans
Special Recommendation from: Joana
Self Help
ISBN 081352556-X
A look at the present health care scenario in the USA, from a practical perspective, backed with research-based findings.