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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 9 books in this booklist
£18.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408858073 | ISBN 10: 140885807x
Iris (or balletgirl-42 as she's known on the internet dating circuit) is a zookeeper looking for love when she is diagnosed with breast cancer. Overnight, her life becomes populated with a carnival of daunting hospital characters. Despite the attemp ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781844086771 | ISBN 10: 1844086771
Meghan O'Rourke was thirty-two when her mother died of cancer on Christmas Day, 2008. As a writer, even in the depths of her grief, she was fascinated by what she observed of herself in the aftermath: the rage she felt, not only at what had happened ... more
View book details£14.99 hardback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780199548811 | ISBN 10: 0199548811
Cervical cancer is an emotive disease with multiple connotations. It has stood for the horror of cancer, the curse of femininity, the hope of cutting-edge medical technologies and the promise of screening for malignant tumours. For a long time, this ... more
View book details£14.44 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906205317 | ISBN 10: 1906205310
"In October 2001, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I said no to surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, and decided to follow a natural course of holistic healing - It's not that I wanted to rule out orthodox medicine altogether, indeed no - I w ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780753512043 | ISBN 10: 0753512041
Professor Jane Plant’s international bestseller on combating breast cancer through diet and lifestyle changes has been fully revised and updated, including new information on ovarian cancer and other types of cancer. In this groundbreak ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781416527886 | ISBN 10: 1416527885
'In a world that doesn't do scar-chic, just what do you wear when you're one-breasted, or no-breasted? In my post-hospital weeks I'm not able to life my arm so clothes that go over the head are out of the question. I phone Vogue to ask their fashion ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780007258963 | ISBN 10: 0007258968
"What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, single-forever, about-to-get-married big-city girl cartoon-ist with a fabulous life finds...a lump in her breast?" That's the question that sets this ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781904614128 | ISBN 10: 1904614124
A little over a year since the appearance of her first book of poetry, Sudden Collapses in Public Places (which was awarded a Poetry Book Society Recommendation), Julia Darling completed her second collection. Her first book grew from her e ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (1997) - ISBN 13: 9781879960732 | ISBN 10: 1879960737
Originally published in 1980, Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals offers a profoundly feminist analysis of her experience with breast cancer and a modified radical mastectomy. Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Lorde fuses the ... more
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