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Women and Cancer -

Related category: Health & Wellbeing
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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 6 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Inflatable Woman by Rachael Ball
    The Inflatable Woman - by Rachael Ball

    £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

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  • Cover image of book A Woman
    A Woman's Disease: The History of Cervical Cancer - by Ilana Lowy

    £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

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  • Cover image of book And So We Heal by Pauline Lomas
    And So We Heal - by Pauline Lomas

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Cancer Vixen: A True Story by Marisa Acocella Marchetto
    Cancer Vixen: A True Story - by Marisa Acocella Marchetto

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Apology for Absence by Julia Darling
    Apology for Absence - by Julia Darling

    £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

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  • Cover image of book The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
    The Cancer Journals - by Audre Lorde

    £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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