Chicken Soup for the Soul: Hope & Healing for Your Breast Cancer Journey will encourage comfort and encourage breast cancer patients and survivors with its inspiring stories and helpful medical information.
This book offers help and hope to cancer patients and their families through laughter and humor presented in the context of sports and sports analogies.
Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in NonfictionNamed a best book of the year by Amazon, NPR, and KirkusWeaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia delivers an intimate, gripping tale that sits at the intersection of memoir and medical thrillerIngrassia lost his mother, two sisters, brother, and nephew to cancer-different cancers developing at different points throughout their lives.
Desde la bomba atómica en 1945 hasta la terapia génica, Francisco Barriga nos conduce por la fascinante historia de los hitos que han configurado lo que hoy conocemos como trasplante de médula ósea; historia protagonizada por gigantes de la medicina, muchos de ellos conocidos por el autor, que empujaron esta disciplina desentrañando una biología muy compleja, y muchas veces incomprendidos por sus coetáneos.
Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011Shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book PrizeShortlisted for the Duff Cooper PrizeNow, as cancer becomes an ever more universal experience, the need to understand it, and its treatment, has never been more compelling.
To many people, being diagnosed with cancer is tantamount to a death sentence and among women, rates of breast and ovarian cancers are still very much on the increase.