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At the age of 36, on the verge of a completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi's health began to falter. He started losing weight and was wracked by waves of excruciating back pain. A CT scan confirmed what Paul, deep down, had suspected: he had stage four lung cancer, widely disseminated. One day, he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next, he was a patient struggling to live. Just like that, the...
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
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"When Miss Norma was diagnosed with uterine cancer, she was advised to undergo surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. But instead of confining herself to a hospital bed for what could be her last stay, Norma--newly widowed after nearly seven decades of marriage--rose to her full height of five feet and told her doctor, 'I'm ninety years old. I'm hitting the road.' Packing what she needed, Norma took off on an unforgettable cross-country journey with...
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At 36, Kelly had a good marriage, a couple of kids, and a weekly newspaper column. But she still saw herself as George Corrigan's daughter. A garrulous Irish-American charmer from Baltimore, George was the center of the ebullient, raucous Corrigan clan. Kelly's was a colorful childhood, just the sort a girl could get attached to. She lives deep within what she calls the Middle Place--"that sliver of time when parenthood and childhood overlap"--but...
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Johnny Gunther was only seventeen years old when he died of a brain tumor. During the months of his illness, everyone near him was unforgettably impressed by his level-headed courage, his wit and quiet friendliness, and, above all, his unfaltering patience through times of despair. This deeply moving book is a father's memoir of a brave, intelligent, and spirited boy.
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Lance Armstrong Foundation
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2004-2005
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The LIVESTRONG Survivorship Notebook is designed to organize and guide your cancer experience. Survivorship Tools - this section will help keep you organized. It contains a personal health journal including an appointment diary and list for medications, practical life summary for health and financial information, and a medical history and treatment section. survivorship Stories - full of stories of cancer survivors talking about their experiences...
13) Comeback
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Zondervan/Harper & Row
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c1990
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The story of the San Francisco Giants baseball pitcher who came back from cancer to pitch again before breaking his arm during the game.
16) Live strong: inspirational stories from cancer survivors-- from diagnosis to treatment and beyond
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Broadway Books
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c2005
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18) The upset: life (sports), death ... and the legacy we leave in the middle : the Tyler Trent story
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The Core Media Group, Inc
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2019.
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"October 20, 2018, was just another normal Saturday in college football--or so it seemed. Amid all the matchups discussed on ESPN that day, it was a special video featuring the harrowing story of Tyler Trent--along with his bold, yet accurate, prediction that Purdue would upset Ohio State--"that captured the hearts of millions. The Upset chronicles so much more than just an inspiring battle against the seemingly impossible opponent of osteosarcoma,...