1. The Cancer Journals: Special Edition Paperback – October 13th, 2020 by Audre Lorde. Pub: Penguin Classics (Black Writer)

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. Includes photos and tributes to Lorde written after her death in 1992.

2. A Burst of Light: and Other Essays by Audre Lorde, Jen Keenan, et al. | Sep 13, 2017 (Black Writer)

“Lorde’s words — on race, cancer, intersectionality, parenthood, injustice — burn with relevance 25 years after her death.” — O, The Oprah Magazine

Winner of 1988 Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award, this path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build communities that nurture our spirit. Lorde announces the need for a radical politics of intersectionality while struggling to maintain her own faith as she wages a battle against liver cancer. From reflections on her struggle with the disease to thoughts on lesbian sexuality and African-American identity in a straight white man’s world, Lorde’s voice remains enduringly relevant in today’s political landscape.
Those who practice and encourage social justice activism frequently quote her exhortation, “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” In addition to the journal entries of “A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer,” this edition includes an interview, “Sadomasochism: Not About Condemnation,” and three essays, “I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities,” “Apartheid U.S.A.,” and “Turning the Beat Around: Lesbian Parenting 1986,” as well as a new Foreword by Sonia Sanchez.

3. Everybody’s Got Something, by Robin Roberts and Veronica Chambers | Apr 7, 2015 (Black Writer)

“Regardless of how much money you have, your race, where you live, what religion you follow, you are going through something. Or you already have or you will. As momma always said, “Everybody’s got something.”

So begins beloved Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts’s new memoir in which she recounts the incredible journey that’s been her life so far, and the lessons she’s learned along the way.
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4. The Black Woman’s Breast Cancer Survival Guide: Understanding and Healing in the Face of a Nationwide Crisis by Cheryl D. Holloway | Jul 14, 2017 (Black Writer)

Breast cancer is reaching epidemic levels, especially among black women. This survival guide provides tools that women—black women in particular—can use to identify and combat this all-too-common threat.

5. Black Women and Breast Cancer: A Cultural Theology (Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual Community, Society) by Elizabeth A. Williams | Dec 15, 2018 (Black Writer)

Christian theology at its core is a story about someone being in trouble. In response to this trouble, the triune God intervenes. God identifies with those in trouble, walking with them through the experience. Yet, the God of Christian theology goes a step further. God prevails over trouble. God is an overcomer. Black women with breast cancer identify with this God. They also see themselves in this theological narrative. They see themselves in the midst of troubles, troubles like racism, poverty and environmental exposures that create the disease affecting their bodies. They see the troubles of breast cancer, their biological disposition towards more aggressive cancers, later stage diagnoses, poorer prognoses, diminished quality of care and worse outcomes.

6. Health, Communication and Breast Cancer among Black Women by Annette D. Madlock Gatison | Jul 15, 2018 (Black Writer)

Health Communication and Breast Cancer among Black Women: Culture, Identity, Spirituality, and Strength addresses how the discourse of strength constructs the identity of Black women even during times of chronic illness through the lens of Black feminist thought and womanist ideology. In doing so, Madlock Gatison explores how the narratives surrounding pink ribbon awareness and survivorship culture, religion and spirituality, and the myth of the strong Black woman impact Black female breast cancer survivors’ self-perceptions, views others had of them, and their ability to express their needs and concerns including those involving their healthcare. This book will be of interest to scholars of public health, health communication, and sociology.

7. Breast Cancer: Black Woman, (2nd Edition) by Edwin T. Johnson | Jun 1, 2000 (Black Male Writer)

This 240 page well-researched hardcover book is packed with information to assist families in handling choices regarding the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. Although all women will find it useful, it targets African American women who represent a particularly vulnerable population. The breast cancer mortality is disproportionately high in all age groups; and before age 40, the incidence of breast cancer in African Americans is twice that of the general population.

8. This Is Only a Test: What Breast Cancer Taught Me about Faith, Love, Hair, and Business by by Chris-Tia Donaldson | July 4, 2019 (Black Writer)

Chris-Tia Donaldson knows what it means to beat the odds. Going from the inner city of Detroit to the Ivy League to founding a successful hair care company and facing brutal trials like breast cancer along the way, she embodies the strength so many women in America aspire to have—and knows how the challenges women face can create remarkable perspective, calm, and understanding.

In This is Only a Test, Chris-Tia reflects on her journey as a black woman in corporate America and shares the lessons that life has taught her. From faith, family, and relationships to the importance of embracing gifts and defining success on one’s own terms, she shows how all women can follow their dreams while still staying true to their own needs, physically and emotionally. Letting the world go and finding their own pace.

9. The Little Black Book What Every Black Woman needs to know about Breast Cancer by Jackie Johnson (1 edition) May 2, 2012 (Unconfirmed race of writer)

The Little Black Book is a resource book for African American women seeking information about Breast Cancer

10. My Pink Journey in Black & White: Poetry, Memoirs & Short Stories of a Journey through Breast Cancer by Linda Stansbury | Oct 11, 2013, (Black Writer)

This book reveals a breast cancer survivors journey with moments of frustration, anger, fear and sometimes quick decision-making, with inadequate information. In a masterful way using short stories, poetry and memoirs the writer captures you with a wealth of information, which turns you from fear to fearlessness. The book also provides effective manners in which a supporter can help their loved one through their journey.

A short Breast Cancer dictionary is included to familiarize you with words and definitions as you attempt to understand a breast cancer diagnosis.

11. Dig In Your Heels: The Glamorous (and Not So Glamorous) Life of a Young Breast Cancer Survivor by Karla Antoinette Baptiste | Oct 15, 2015 (Black Writer)

The uplifting memoir of one woman’s triumph over breast cancer—from diagnosis to the coveted five-year cancer-free anniversary. When Karla Antoinette Baptiste was first diagnosed, she began reading breast cancer memoirs but was always left wondering what happened next. What should I expect after treatment? What will my “new normal” be like? Her own story answers those questions and so much more. Written with humor and humility, Karla’s story is woven with themes of love, trust, and spiritual faith—and the importance of becoming a force in breast cancer advocacy. It offers valuable information and resources for breast health and provides support, inspiration, and hope for those facing breast cancer. From her adventures in Paris to her roller-coaster relationship with her ex-husband, Karla’s memoir is more than radiation and chemotherapy. In Dig in Your Heels, she urges women to educate themselves and draw upon their inner strength—the best is yet to come!

12. Surviving in Stilettos: Inspiration to the Divas who are Young, Fabulous & dealing with the effects of Breast Cancer by Deetria Nichole Cannon, Anthony Scott Jr., et al | May 5, 2019 (Black Writer)

Our test is our testimony, and with adversity comes strength we didn’t know we had. Surviving in Stilettos portrays the author, Deetria N. Cannon’s story in a way that any young woman under the age of forty can easily relate to while dealing with the effects of breast cancer. Deetria, provides examples and answers to life changing effects relating to medical procedures, side effects, emotions, self-love, sex, dating, health and fitness. Surviving in Stilettos is a motivating spiritual guide taking her audience through the entire breast cancer journey start to finish. Be encouraged and feel empowered through the why me, why now, while learning to maintain a sense of normalcy. With a captivating chic “Sex in the City” fun-loving approach, you will become a part of the pink ribbon sisterhood of perseverance, strength, and resilience; while fighting adversity with faith.

13. My Strength is Your Strength Journal: Winning Against Breast Cancer, by Valeda Keys and Megan Frank | Apr 13, 2019 (Black Writer)

Purchase the The My Strength is Your Strength Journal in combination with Valeda Key’s book by the same title. Use these blank journaling pages to keep track of your personal journey, capturing your own thoughts, hopes, fears, and desires.

14. Wrapped-N-Pink: A Poetic Story of Surviving Breast Cancer Through Fear, Faith, Trust and Hope by Anita Jeter-Peterkin | May 23, 2013 (Black Writer)

15. We Survive to THRIVE!: life-changing stories of breast cancer survivors by Paula Smith Broadnax, Vizion Broadnax, et al. | Nov 25, 2014 (Black Writer)

This collection of 10 powerful, life-affirming testimonies (including a tribute to breast cancer advocate Ernestine “Ernie” McMillan) is, indeed, shaped to inspire anyone who has journeyed through any type of challenge in life. Included are stories from contributors who were once labeled “survivors” but have been truly THRIVING since their diagnosis.

16. Black Seed Oil for Breast Cancer: The effect of Black Seed Oil against Cancer by Dr. Robert Smith | Oct 23, 2019 (Black Male Writer)

Spices have been some of the maximum precious items of change in the ancient and medieval world. Herbalist and folks practitioners have used plant treatments for centuries, however best lately have scientist begun to examine the powers of common herbs and spices. In the modern set-up, the anti-proliferative, anti-hypercholesterolemic, anti-diabetic, anti-inflammatory outcomes of spices have overriding importance, as the important thing health difficulty of mankind in recent times is diabetes, aerobic-vascular illnesses, arthritis and cancer.

17. The Influence of Health Disparities on the Initiation of Care for Women facing Breast Cancer by Dr Lailea Noel, NYU, 2018 (Black Writer)

18. Breast Cancer in Women of African Descent Editors: Editor-in-chief: Williams, Christopher Kwesi O. Olopade, Olufunmilayo I., Falkson, Carla I. (Eds.) (Black Writers)

Although there are numerous technical-scientific books on breast cancer in the global bibliography, such books deal exclusively with the nature of the disease in majority populations of the Western societies, with little or no reference to the nature of the disease in the minority populations in such societies. Similarly, the nature of breast cancer in black women of the less privileged societies, and in women of ethnic groups living in countries of similar socio-economic status, is virtually unknown. For various epidemiological reasons, breast cancer incidence is rapidly increasing in these counties, more so than currently is the case in developed countries. Thus, the global burden of cancer is shifting gradually to these areas of the world, and may equal or even surpass the breast cancer burden in Western societies within the foreseeable future. This book is unique because it bucks the trend of virtually all other breast cancer books by addressing specifically the breast cancer experience of women of African descent and their lifestyle counterparts in other societies of the world.

Table of contents (14 chapters)

• The Burden of Breast Cancer in Developing and Developed Countries
• Genetics of Breast Cancer in Women of African Descent: An Overview
• Biology of Breast Cancer
• Screening and Early Detection of Breast Cancer in Women in Africa and the Middle East

19. Breast cancer in young black women (Academic Article) by S. M. Walsh¹, E. C. Zabor², J. Flynn ², M. Stempel¹, M. Morrow¹ and M. L. Gemignani¹ | April 2017

20. Dear Cancer: Beating Triple-Negative Breast Cancer by Ann Tracy Marr | Sep 23, 2015

Triple-negative is a deadly form of breast cancer. Because these tumors are aggressive and there are fewer treatment options, the woman with a triple-negative diagnosis often receives the maximum chemotherapy and the most radiation. What she doesn’t get is a lot of hope. The facts of triple-negative are so frightening that she will wish she had regular every-day cancer. Ann Tracy Marr knows the feeling; she survived triple-negative breast cancer. To keep track of what was going on and to hang on to her sanity, Marr wrote a diary through diagnosis, surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment. Dear Cancer is a mix of personal experience and medical fact translated into plain English. The reader walks in Marr’s shoes through surgery, chemo rooms, and radiation labs. The reader will have an accurate description of a biopsy. A port will cease to be a mystery. She will be acquainted with the symptoms of side effects and have tips for dealing with them. 

21. Catch That Look: Living, Laughing & Loving Despite Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (1st Edition) by Ann Pietrangelo | January 4, 2014

Sometimes, when that “other shoe” finally drops, it drops hard. Ann couldn’t believe her luck. After years of living with the debilitating effects of multiple sclerosis, she was making the most of her miraculous remission; although a part of her was always on the alert, waiting for the proverbial other shoe to drop. It wasn’t long before an accidental discovery of a lump led to her life-threatening diagnosis – triple-negative breast cancer. From a deeply personal perspective and told in riveting detail, “Catch That Look” explores the relationships between doctors and their patients, as well as between patients and their loved ones. With each new page, it becomes crystal clear that just as a picture is worth a thousand words, sometimes, when you catch it, a look speaks volumes. From the author of “No More Secs! Living, Laughing & Loving Despite Multiple Sclerosis,” this follow-up memoir is one that Ann never thought she would have to write. It offers the reader passionate insight into the emotional and physical turmoil of learning you have a second life-altering disease – and what it means to be a true survivor. For Ann and her husband, Jim, the diagnosis would test their “living, laughing, and loving despite” mindset. Would they pass this test? With a foreword by Diane Radford, MD, FACS, FRCSEd, surgical oncologist and breast surgeon at Mercy Clinic St. Louis Cancer & Breast Institute.

22. Radical: The Science, Culture, and History of Breast Cancer in America by Kate Pickert | Oct 1, 2019

In this “powerful and unflinching page-turner” (New York Times), a healthcare journalist examines the science, history, and culture of breast cancer.

As a health-care journalist, Kate Pickert knew the emotional highs and lows of medical treatment well — but always from a distance, through the stories of her subjects. That is, until she was unexpectedly diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer at the age of 35. As she underwent more than a year of treatment, Pickert realized that the popular understanding of breast care in America bears little resemblance to the experiences of today’s patients and the rapidly changing science designed to save their lives. After using her journalistic skills to navigate her care, Pickert embarked on a quest to understand the cultural, scientific and historical forces shaping the lives of breast cancer patients in the modern age.

23. It’s Your Body….Ask: your guide to talk with your doctor about Breast Cancer by William H. Goodson III M.D. | Nov 21, 2016

Time with your doctor is short, so knowing how to ask your doctor the right questions is essential to receiving care that is personalized to you. It’s your body…ASK is a guide to the questions to ask your physician about breast cancer – and other breast problems – to assure that you receive the most personalized medicine for your health. Designed to help you organize your thoughts, it helps you start learning – before your appointment begins – by focusing on the different questions to ask if you want to check that you are okay, if you have an area in your breast that you are worried about, or if you have been diagnosed with breast cancer. The book explains why each individual question is important to the patient and what she can learn from the range of possible answers. The second edition is expanded to accommodate new information about the answers to old questions and new questions raised by recent advances in research. The introduction explains where doctors get information, the meaning of relative and absolute risk, and more importantly how a woman can judge for herself the value of different types of information to avoid being misled by exaggeration of the benefit of one treatment versus another. The body of the book has an expanded introduction to genetic testing, wider discussion of how to think about the treatment of breast cancer, and an overview of the newest group of cancer drugs, targeted biologic therapies.

24. Sometimes You Just have to Take Your Wig Off and Run in the Rain: (An Honest and Humorous Step by Step Journey of a Breast Cancer Survivor) by Beverly B. Still | May 24, 2013

This book was written with the hope that it will help others who are diagnosed with breast cancer and facing chemotherapy for the first time. It is also informative for the caregivers for cancer fighters. The book is brief and written simply because those who are sick don’t have the energy to wade through massive medical articles to seek answers to their many questions. Laughter is powerful medicine, and this book encourages positive thinking as well as seeking comfort through faith, friends, and family.

25. Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer by Paula Black and Capt. Dale Black | Feb 1, 2014

The Essential Guide to Beating Cancer. Riveting! Shocking! Eye Opening! A roadmap to successfully treating cancer and other chronic diseases! As featured on the cover of “Publisher’s Weekly” this beautifully written, inspirational and enlightening memoir may be the ultimate victory-over-cancer story. The author’s journey from advanced-stage cancer, to near death, to complete healing is destined to become a faith-based BESTSELLER.
     In the prime of life–as a wife, mother and businesswoman–Paula heard the dreaded words: “It’s cancer.” Doctors gave her 3 to 6 months to live. Her husband, a former airline pilot instructor who had become the senior pastor of a growing church, became Paula’s full-time cancer researcher. The two began discovering everything they could about her fatal disease. They met with doctors and oncologists, talked with cancer patients and their families–tirelessly researching every conventional and alternative cancer treatment available. Mostly they prayed.

26. Lymphedema: A Breast Cancer Patient’s Guide Prevention and Healing by Jeannie Burt and Gwen White | Jan 1, 2005

Women who undergo surgery for breast cancer may end up with lymphedema, a painful, visible swelling, usually of the arm. Coming to their aid, LYMPHEDEMA lays out the many options for preventing and treating the condition. The book provides information on reducing lymphedema through professional therapy as well as exercise and self-massage, plus helpful illustrations and additional resources. It also tells encouraging stories of women who have dealt with lymphedema successfully. With updates throughout on the latest research, products, and techniques, this new edition features expanded nutrition and exercise sections and covers naturopathy, acupuncture, and Chinese herbal medicine, as well as potential future therapies being tested.

27. After the Cure: The Untold Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors by Emily K. Abel and Saskia K. Subramanian | Aug 30, 2010

Chemo brain. Fatigue. Chronic pain. Insomnia. Depression. These are just a few of the ongoing, debilitating symptoms that plague some breast-cancer survivors long after their treatments have officially ended. While there are hundreds of books about breast cancer, ranging from practical medical advice to inspirational stories of survivors, what has been missing until now is testimony from the thousands of women who continue to struggle with persistent health problems.
After the Cure is a compelling read filled with fascinating portraits of more than seventy women who are living with the aftermath of breast cancer. Emily K. Abel is one of these women. She and her colleague, Saskia K. Subramanian, whose mother died of cancer, interviewed more than seventy breast cancer survivors who have suffered from post-treatment symptoms. Having heard repeatedly that “the problems are all in your head,” many don’t know where to turn for help. The doctors who now refuse to validate their symptoms are often the very ones they depended on to provide life-saving treatments. Sometimes family members who provided essential support through months of chemotherapy and radiation don’t believe them. Their work lives, already disrupted by both cancer and its treatment, are further undermined by the lingering symptoms. And every symptom serves as a constant reminder of the trauma of diagnosis, the ordeal of treatment, and the specter of recurrence.

28. Choices in Breast Cancer Treatment: Medical Specialists and Cancer Survivors Tell You What You Need to Know ( A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book) by Kenneth D. Miller MD | Jan 13, 2008

A diagnosis of breast cancer can be overwhelming. The disease is frightening and the medical landscape confusing. In the wake of fear and confusion comes the need to make decisions about treatment. This book provides women with medically reliable and up-to-date information to help them with these decisions.

Within these pages is a team of private consultants―including surgeons, medical oncologists, radiologists, plastic surgeons, and women who have faced breast cancer―each of whom offers sound advice and valuable insight. In addition to describing surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, and breast reconstruction, the medical experts clarify choices and offer support, while breast cancer survivors tell their own stories of pain, perseverance, and triumph.

Choices in Breast Cancer Treatment is a rare blend of medical expertise and compelling personal accounts that empowers those with breast cancer to meet the disease with confidence, knowledge, and hope.

29. Inkspirations for Breast Cancer Survivors: Coloring Designs to Awaken the Healing Hero Within, by Beverly Vote and Ann-Margret Hovsepian | Oct 3, 2017

If you or someone you care about is battling breast cancer, you know that maintaining a positive attitude is an invaluable tool for healing. Inkspirations for Breast Cancer Survivors was created by Beverly Vote, a breast cancer survivor, to help you de-stress, recharge, and renew so that you can awaken your healer within. 

Over two decades ago, Beverly Vote was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 38. With a bleak diagnosis, and few resources, she felt helpless, overwhelmed, and alone. The experience forced her to dig deep into her emotional and physical wellspring to awaken the healer within. In the fight for her life, she gave herself permission to spend less time with people who were negative and controlling and she welcomed more hope, joy, courage, and passion into each day. She soldiered through, and after two years of surgeries, treatment, and a learning curve about how she could empower herself, her prognosis improved–25 years later she remains cancer free.

30. The Breast Cancer Companion: A Guide For the Newly Diagnosed by Nancy Sokolowski RN OCN and Valerie Rossi | Jul 27, 2010

Guidance, organization, and timely ÏinsiderÓ tips to help your breast cancer treatment and recovery go as smoothly and successfully as possible.

Filled with the best-of-the-best advice from the available research, leading doctors, breast cancer survivors, and Nancy Sokolowski√ås 30 years as one of the country√ås most respected and sought after breast health specialists, The Breast Cancer Companion is a step-by-step guide to assist you in mounting a smart, organized, and ultimately successful battle with breast cancer.

Helping you stay well-organized and well-informed, this essential companion includes health information, tips, and resources, plus provides ample space and encouragement to record questions, thoughts and feelings, doctor’s appointments, medications, and contact information for the oncology team and others.

You will find:

• A calendar to plan and manage your schedule
• A directory to organize important contacts
• Questions to ask your medical team
• Tips and advice from breast cancer survivors
• Ample space to reflect on your experience
• A list of resources and breast cancer-related organizations

With The Breast Cancer Companion at your side, you√åll have the peace of mind, time, and energy to focus on what matters most: staying well and achieving a healthy outcome.

31. The Silver Lining: A Supportive and Insightful Guide to Breast Cancer by Hollye Jacobs | Mar 18, 2014

As a healthy, happy thirty-nine-year-old mother with no family history of breast cancer, being diagnosed with the disease rocked Hollye Jacobs’s world. Having worked as a nurse, social worker, and child development specialist for fifteen years, she suddenly found herself in the position of moving into the hospital bed. She was trained as a clinician to heal. In her role as patient, the healing process became personal. Exquisitely illustrated with full-color photographs by Hollye’s close friend, award-winning photographer Elizabeth Messina, The Silver Lining is both Hollye’s memoir and a practical, supportive resource for anyone whose life has been touched by breast cancer. In the first section of each chapter, she describes with humor and wisdom her personal experience and gives details about her diagnosis, treatment, side effects, and recovery. The second section of each chapter is told from Hollye’s point of view as a medical expert. In addition to providing a glossary of important terms and resources, she addresses the physical and emotional aspects of treatment, highlights what patients can expect, and provides action steps, including: What to do when facing a diagnosis How to find the best and most supportive medical team What questions to ask What to expect at medical tests How to talk with and support children How to relieve or avoid side effects How to be a supportive friend or family member How to find Silver Linings

31. Heal Breast Cancer Naturally: 7 Essential Steps Beating Breast Cancer by Dr. Veronique Desaulniers | Apr 6, 2014

First and foremost, I am a woman that was looking for answers, just like you. I have claimed victory over 2 breast cancer journeys. My healing journeys taught me so much about myself and breast cancer in general. These experiences have been stepping stones into creating my first book, Heal Breast Cancer Naturally, Healing Diva Retreats and various coaching programs for women that are looking for support. One out of eight women will be diagnosed with Breast Cancer. One out of 3 women will experience some form of cancer in their lifetime.I was one of those statistics even though I was living a healthy lifestyle that consisted of organic foods, regular exercise, massage, Chiropractic care and colonics. How could somebody like me develop Breast Cancer? That very question led to thousands of hours of research, study, soul-searching and prayer. It all came together as The 7 Essentials – 7 basic steps that are necessary for preventing and healing cancer, or any disease for that matter.

33. Husband’s Guide to Breast Cancer: A Complete & Concise Plan for Every Stage Paperback by Todd Outcalt | November 1, 2013

Husband’s Guide to Breast Cancer is for men seeking an easy-to-understand and practical resource to answer their questions now and guide them through every stage of their wife’s breast cancer journey. Husband’s Guide to Breast Cancer: A Complete & Concise Plan for Every Stage provides help at a glance for those who need solutions in a hurry, but is also complete enough to deepen a man’s understanding of breast cancer and inspire his role as caregiver. The book includes first-person accounts from men who have walked the walk, and quick tips in each chapter, this book speaks to the practical side of a man’s care and reveals how he can use his strengths to help the woman he loves.

Features include an accessible format with Tips at a Glance, and Top Ten
lists, glossary, a resource guide, bibliography and index. A straightforward presentation of the information men needs to know immediately following a breast cancer diagnosis and through each stage that follows. The author provides answers to the most common questions men ask about sexuality, nutrition, finances, chemotherapy, breast implants and much more. Husband’s Guide to Breast Cancer includes a Husband’s Quick Guide to Breast Cancer, The Pocket Guide to FAQs & Answers. It covers everything from Initial Reactions to Breast Cancer, Understanding Her Feelings & The Shock Factor, Your Initial Conversations and Learning How to Listen & Telling Her How You Feel, figure out what she needs, getting into caregiving game and being her strong shoulder, what is breast cancer and understanding the disease and treatment option, family matters, the medical team, recovery, how to cope With Cancer & Finding Your Own Way as a Man, how to get help for yourself, and more.

34. Bonjour, Breast Cancer – I’m Still Smiling!: Wit, Wisdom, and Optimism for Beating the Breast Cancer Blues by Princess Diane von Brainisfried | Sept 20, 2019

Can You Turn Breast Cancer into a Positive Experience?

Yes! And Bonjour, Breast Cancer–I’m Still Smiling! shows you how. Written with a deliciously humorous tone, Princess Diane von Brainisfried (aka the award-winning writer Diane Young Uniman) shares a king’s ransom of practical advice and wisdom to find positivity in the face of the challenges posed by breast cancer and everything that goes with it.

This essential guide to beating the breast cancer blues combines von Brainisfried’s own insights with research-based positive psychology strategies, along with wisdom from Socrates, Cherokee legends, and her own Jewish great-grandmother. You’ll reclaim your happiness mojo as she shows you how to go from fear and despair to positivity and optimism.

From diagnosis to chemo, baldness, double mastectomy, radiation–and 3-D nipple tattoos–you will find encouragement and empowerment for your own journey. This is the closest thing to holding your hand through your breast cancer experience that you can get . . . without actually holding hands.

35. Have Breast Cancer, Will Travel by Jan Allen | Sept 30, 2015

“You have breast cancer.” These are words that 1 in 8 women will hear in their lifetime. The words resonate a harsh, cruel reality. Jan Allen heard those words in 2010 at age 44 and was shocked. With her passion for travel, Jan decided to approach the upcoming months through Stage II, grade 3 aggressive breast cancer as another journey on her life’s path. I Have Breast Cancer, Will Travel Jan gives us a very personal glimpse into cancer diagnosis and treatments. Relying on her faith and a wonderfully supportive husband and family, she brings us along on her journey. Through these “Postcards”, Jan’s message of hope amidst tragedy resounds. Self-declared “Pink Warrior”, she takes us one day at a time through her year-long exhaustive fight. Jan’s easy-to-read, the intimate style will delight your heart and encourage your soul whether it’s cancer or another crisis you may be facing today. 

36. Metastatic Breast Cancer: From Diagnosis to Complete Remission: An Intentional Journey by Denice Jeffery | Nov 9, 2012

As a psychologist, Denice Jeffery helped others learn to face their greatest fears with courage and integrity. But on a dark day in 2005, she would need to learn how to apply those same support strategies to her own life. That day, she learned that she had breast cancer. Just five years later, she was told that cancer had metastasized, spreading throughout her body. A remarkable journey began then; now, she is officially in complete remission. Here, she shares her experiences honestly and intimately. Although she had radiation, she refused chemotherapy in favor of more natural therapies. She bravely rejected her terminal diagnosis and started on a race for her very life, hoping to unearth complementary strategies that could potentially ensure her survival.

37. Speaking the Language of Healing: Living With Breast Cancer Without Going to War (New Approach to Breast Cancer) by Susan Kuner, Carol Orsborn , et al. | Oct 1, 1999

Four women each diagnosed with breast cancer were dismayed to learn that the conventional vocabulary for healing is a language characterized by a terminology of warfare and survivorship, with winners and losers. Speak the Language of Healing is the product of their collective experience in developing a new framework for the emotional stages of illness and a new means to talk about it. Their experiences reflect their four different spiritual backgroundsChristian, Jewish, Sufi, and TwelveStepbut they all felt the need to rewrite the combative language of illness with words emphasizing relationship, integration, and spirit. And although the authors were breast cancer patients, their search for meaning, purpose, and emotional balance is universal to anyone facing a life threatening disease.

38. Lifelines to Cancer Survival: A New Approach to Personalized Care by Mark Roby | December 30, 2002

That’s what cancer survivor Dr. Mark Roby wants you to do. On December 30, 2002, Roby was diagnosed with one of the rarest cancers in the world and told it was unresponsive to all known chemotherapy. His oncologist suggested he “accept the inevitable,” but Roby thought otherwise. 

Quickly realizing that conventional thinking would do little to help him, he created his own, personalized treatment plan targeting his specific tumor. And he survived!

This is Roby’s story, but more importantly it’s his compilation of the many resources he painstakingly discovered and wants to share with others who are fighting similar battles. With a medical insider’s knowledge of what it takes to stay alive when all the odds are against you, Lifelines to Cancer Survival is the first book to help guide cancer patients toward advanced modalities and testing, such as genetic profiling, personalized vaccines, and more. Roby wants to lead the charge of patients directing and supervising their own care.

39. Journal: Black and Pink Journal Notebook for Breast Cancer Survivors, (Breast Cancer Awareness Gift, Cancer Journal, Breast Cancer Journal by Fancy Press | Dec 19, 2019

40. Anticancer Living: Transform Your Life and Health with the Mix of Six by Lorenzo Cohen PhD, Alison Jefferies MEd | May 1, 2019

The scientific data on the link between lifestyle, environmental factors, and cancer risk has been accumulating at an accelerated rate over the past decade: Every week we learn something more that we can do as individuals to decrease the risk of can­cer and improve the likelihood of long-term survival. Many of us—patients and doctors included—do not realize that changes in our daily choices and habits can improve quality of life, increase the chances of survival, and aid in the healing process for those with a diagnosis. These ideas were pioneered in David Servan-Schreiber’s Anticancer: A New Way of Life, and became the basis for a research study developed by Lorenzo Cohen and Servan-Schreiber at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
 
Introducing the concept of the “Mix of Six,” Cohen and Alison Jefferies make an informed case that building social and emotional support; manag­ing stress; improving sleep, exercise, and diet; and minimizing exposure to environmental toxins work together to promote an optimal environment for health and well-being. While each plays an inde­pendent role, the synergy created by all six factors can radically transform health; delay or prevent many cancers; support conventional treatments; and significantly improve quality of life—as many testi­monies and stories of those in the anticancer com­munity eloquently show.

41. A Cancer Answer: Holistic BREAST Cancer Management, A Guide to Effective & Non-Toxic Treatments (Volume 1) by Catherine J. Frompovich, Dr. Harold E. Buttram MD, et al | Aug. 17, 2012

The real-time story how the author is dealing with two tumors in her right breast that have shrunk dramatically in less than a year using only holistic and natural healthcare modalities, not surgery or chemotherapy. She explains her protocol, diet along with meal plans and recipes, and non-toxic self-help modalities. She has not lost her hair nor suffered any of the debilitating side effects women encounter while receiving chemotherapy or radiation therapies. Women who know and have seen what’s happened to the author’s right breast have encouraged her to write this book.

42. Notebook: Love Support Breast Cancer Awareness Pink Ribbon Women Black Lined Journal Writing Diary by InGenius Publications | Nov 12, 2019

An empowered and strong-willed woman would love this meaningful design that’s full of LOVE. If you are a cancer patient or survivor or know someone in your family or community who needs support, this pink ribbon graphic is for you.

43. The Living Kitchen: Healing Recipes to Support Your Body During Cancer Treatment and Recovery by Tamara Green and Sarah Grossman | Jan 22, 2019

From two experts in cancer care cooking comes an informative, inspiring, and empowering guide that will educate cancer patients and their caregivers about the healing power of food. With nearly 100 nourishing recipes designed to combat side effects related to cancer therapy, this book is an essential resource for anyone experiencing cancer, undergoing treatment, or in remission.

A cancer diagnosis can be overwhelming, frightening, and uncertain. You’ll want to learn what to expect from chemotherapy and radiation, how you’ll navigate the often debilitating side effects that come with treatment, and what you should eat to support your body at a time when eating and cooking may be too challenging. The Living Kitchen will help cancer patients and their caregivers navigate every stage of their cancer therapy journey, from diagnosis to treatment to recovery.

Within the pages of this indispensable guide, certified nutritonists Sarah Grossman and Tamara Green provide easy-to-understand, research-based nutritional information on the science behind how food relates to your health and the effects of cancer, and offer strategies to prepare your body, life, and kitchen for treatment. With nearly 100 stress-free, healthy, freezer-friendly, and flavorful recipes specially designed to relieve specific symptoms and side effects of cancer and its therapies (including loss of appetite, sore mouth, altered taste buds, nausea, and more) and to strengthen your body once in recovery, The Living Kitchen is accompanied by stunning photography and a simple, user-friendly design. With energizing snacks and breakfasts; superfood smoothies, juices and elixirs; soups and stews, and nutrient-rich, flavorful main dishes, these are recipes that you, your family, and your caregivers will all enjoy. The Living Kitchen will give you comfort in knowing that your body will be nourished and supported during (and even after) cancer treatment.

44. Cook for Your Life: Delicious, Nourishing Recipes for Before, During, and After Cancer Treatment by Ann Ogden Gaffney | Sep 29, 2015

2016 James Beard Award nominee and 2016 Books For A Better Life Award winner

A beautiful, unique cookbook with delicious recipes for all stages of cancer treatment and recovery, from a two-time cancer survivor and founder of the Cook for Your Life nutrition-based cooking programs.
 
Cook for Your Life is a one-of-a-kind cookbook for those whose lives are touched by cancer, organized by the patient’s needs.  

Self-taught home cook and two-time cancer survivor Ann Ogden Gaffney discovered during her months of treatment for breast cancer that she was able to find powerful relief for her symptoms through cooking. Realizing that other patients and families could benefit from the skills and techniques she’d learned, she began to offer advice, recipes, and free classes to fellow patients.

45. The No-Dairy Breast Cancer Prevention Program: How One Scientist’s Discovery Helped Her Defeat Her Cancer by Prof. Jane Plant | Oct 11, 2002

A revolutionary new way of looking at, preventing, and treating breast cancer.

46. Keto for Cancer: Ketogenic Metabolic Therapy as a Targeted Nutritional Strategy by Miriam Kalamian EdM MS CNS and Thomas N. Seyfried | Oct 18, 2017

A Comprehensive Guide for Patients and Practitioners

Although evidence supporting the benefits of ketogenic diet therapies continues to mount, there is little to guide those who wish to adopt this diet as a metabolic therapy for cancer. Keto for Cancer fills this need. Inspired by the work of Dr. Thomas N. Seyfried, PhD, nutritionist Miriam Kalamian has written the first book to lay out comprehensive guidelines that specifically address the many challenges associated with cancer, and particularly the deep nutritional overhaul involved with the ketogenic diet.

Kalamian, a leading voice in the keto movement, is driven by passion from her own experience in using the ketogenic diet for her young son. Her book addresses the nuts and bolts of adopting the diet, from deciding whether keto is the right choice to developing a personal plan for smoothly navigating the keto lifestyle. It is invaluable for both beginners and seasoned users of the ketogenic diet, as well as for health-care professionals who need a toolkit to implement this targeted metabolic therapy.

The book guides readers to a deeper understanding of the therapeutic potential of the ketogenic diet―which extends well beyond simply starving cancer―emphasizing the powerful impact the diet has on the metabolism of cancer cells. Nutritional nuances are explored in sections such as “Fasting Protocols” and “Know What’s in the Foods You Eat” while meal templates and tracking tools are provided in “Preparing Keto Meals.”

Kalamian also discusses important issues such as self-advocacy. Readers of Keto for Cancer are empowered to “get off the bench and get in the game.” To that end, Kalamian offers tips on how to critically examine cancer-care options then incorporate what resonates into a truly personalized treatment plan.

47. Contra el cancer / Fat for Fuel: A Revolutionary Diet to Combat Cancer, Boost Brain Power, and Increase Your Energy (Spanish Edition) by Joseph Mercola | May 29, 2018

En este libro paradigmático, el primero en su tipo, el doctor Joseph Mercola nos explica por qué casi todas las enfermedades son causadas por procesos metabólicos disfuncionales. Con él comprenderás, de manera fácil y accesible, cómo funciona el cuerpo humano a nivel molecular y aprenderás a seguir un plan de alimentación cetogénica: una dieta baja en carbohidratos y alta en grasas saludables para optimizar los procesos bioquímicos que suprimen la enfermedad y promueven la curación.

Contra el cáncer, bestseller instantáneo en Estados Unidos, es ya el libro más vendido del gurú en el campo de la medicina natural: ¿qué esperas para sumarte a los miles de lectores que gracias a él han cambiado su vida?

Otros títulos en el descubrimiento científico de la década: la clave para prevenir y tratar el cancer está en la mitocondria.

«El doctor Mercola ha sido una fuente de inspiración y sabiduría médica por décadas. Este libro es una obra maestra que transforma los descubrimientos científicos de vanguardia en información accesible para todos». – Christiane Northrup, autora de La sabiduría de la menopausia

English Description

For over a century, we’ve accepted the scientific consensus that cancer results from genetic disease due to chromosomal damage in cell nuclei. But what if cancer isn’t a genetic disease after all? What if scientists are chasing a flawed paradigm, and cancer isn’t a disease of damaged DNA but rather of defective metabolism as a result of mitochondrial dysfunction? What if that startling truth could revolutionize our understanding of other diseases as well—and show us a radical new path to optimal health?

In this groundbreaking guide, the first of its kind, New York Times best-selling author and leading natural-health practitioner Joseph Mercola explains how nearly all disease is caused by defective metabolic processes. Then he reveals what’s causing your metabolism to go haywire: damage and dysfunction in the mitochondria, thousands of which are at work in nearly every cell in your body, generating 90 per cent of the energy you need to stay alive and well. When mitochondria become damaged in large numbers, it is impossible to stay healthy.

48. Tamoxifen and Breast Cancer (Yale Fastback Series) by Michael W. DeGregorio and Valerie J. Wiebe | Aug 15, 1999

Tamoxifen is one of the most widely prescribed drugs used to prevent the recurrence of breast cancer. A nonsteroidal antiestrogen, it has been successful in treating postmenopausal women at nearly all stages of breast cancer. Despite its popularity, disturbing questions remain about the use of this drug. How effective is tamoxifen in treating patients who have hormone-insensitive breast tumors or who have not yet reached menopause? What are the potential risks in taking tamoxifen, and do they ever outweigh its benefits? Should tamoxifen be administered as a prophylactic drug for healthy premenopausal women who are at high risk of developing breast cancer?

In this vitally important book, two leading scientific investigators present a balanced and accessible discussion of the diagnosis of breast cancer and the risks, benefits, and limitations of treatment alternatives, particularly tamoxifen. Michael W. DeGregorio and Valerie J. Wiebe discuss the history and evolution of tamoxifen as a treatment for breast cancer, explaining how it works, what its side effects are, and why tamoxifen treatment is unsuccessful for some women. They present the controversies surrounding the National Cancer Institute’s study of tamoxifen as a preventive for breast cancer, describing the hopes of the proponents of the study and the fears of its detractors (potential risks to women in the study include thrombosis, uterine cancer, and even breast cancer itself). The book is an invaluable aid to women faced with decisions about treatment or prevention of breast cancer.

49. Tamoxifen: Pioneering Medicine in Breast Cance (Milestones in Drug Therapy) by Philipp Y. Maximov, Russell E. McDaniel, et al. | Jul 24, 2013

Tamoxifen is a pioneering medicine for the treatment and prevention of breast cancer. It is the first drug targeted therapy in cancer to be successful. Tamoxifen targets the tumor estrogen receptor. The therapy is known to have saved the lives of millions of women over the past 40 years.

This monograph, written by V. Craig Jordan – known as the “father of tamoxifen” – and his Tamoxifen Team at the Georgetown University Washington DC, illustrates the journey of this milestone in medicine. It includes a personal interview with V. Craig Jordan about his four decades of discovery in breast cancer research and treatment. V. Craig Jordan was there for the birth of tamoxifen as he is credited for reinventing a “failed morning after contraceptive” to become the “gold standard” for the treatment of breast cancer. He contributed to every aspect of tamoxifen application in therapeutics and all aspects of tamoxifen’s pharmacology. He discovered the selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) and explored the new biology of estrogen-induced apoptosis.

50. Breast Cancer Epidemiology, by Christopher Li | Nov 26, 2014

Breast cancer remains a disease of considerable public health importance worldwide, with over 800,000 new cases diagnosed globally each year. This book is a single comprehensive source of the most recent information on breast cancer epidemiology.