People Living with Cancer

Recommended Literature to Read

Helpful for Men and Couples dealing with supporting partners with cancer

Carol Levine; January 2004. Always on call:  when illness turns families into caregivers.2nd Edition. Vanderbilt university press

Hester Hill Schnipper, Lowell E Schnipper. September 2006 : After Breast cancer. Bantam Books

A Common sense guide to life after cancer treatment.

Robert Ross and Pamela Willsey, 2001. [...]

Book: Why I Wore Lipstick to my mastectomy

http://www.whyiworelipstick.com/v2/home.html
A soulful, surprising coming of age journey by a dynamo who used her own adversity as a platform for examining issues all young women face.
Having finished journalism school and landed her dream job at age 27, the last thing Geralyn [...]

CR MAGAZINE for international cancer advocates

http://www.crmagazine.org/Pages/default.aspx
CR launched a digital edition of the magazine—a ‘read on your computer’ version of the magazine that looks just like the print edition but is delivered to subscribers via e-mail. A sample issue is available for you to enjoy here: http://www.crmagazine-digital.org/crmagazine/sample/
As a special offer to international advocates, 1-year subscriptions to the digital edition are available [...]

Book: Hearing the Stream – a Breast Cancer Survivor’s Journey

Hearing the Stream
A Survivor’s Journey into the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer                        
By Diane Lane Chambers,  
 
 
Breast Cancer Survivor
Crafts Inspiring Chronicle
 
            CONIFER, COLORADO—Each year, according to the American Cancer Society, approximately 275,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with breast cancer.  The lifetime risk for a woman of developing breast cancer is 1 in 7, and annually [...]

Listen With Your Heart – ACS Booklet

Listen With Your Heart:  Talking With the Person Who Has Cancer
When someone close to you who has cancer starts to talk about the disease, do you change the subject? Do you stand in silence, worried that you’ll say the wrong thing? If so, you share these feelings with many others.
When talking with someone [...]

Book: Breast Cancer Husband

Breast Cancer Husband by Marc Silver
“The book that breast cancer patients and their families have been waiting for.  Here’s a practical guide for the too many husbancs who will need it”
Cokie Roberts, news analyst
and breast cancer survivor
When Marc Silver’s wife was diagnosed with breast cancer
three years ago, he was far from a perfect [...]

Book: Your Breast Cancer Treatment Handbook

Your Breast Cancer Treatment Handbook – by Judy C. Kneece

Your Breast Cancer Treatment Handbook has been called the most effective and empowering breast cancer book both by patients and healthcare professionals. This valuable book is designed for the newly diagnosed breast cancer patient. It provides the patient with current, easy-to-understand explanations of [...]

Book: Helping your Mate face Breast Cancer

Helping Your Mate Face Breast Cancer: by Judy C. Kneece

Helping Your Mate Face Breast Cancer is described as the essential “how-to” manual for support partners. It is a complete primer on disease and treatment options, sexual relationships after cancer, therapeutic communication guidelines and balancing daily living with the fear of recurrence. Illustrated [...]

Book: For the Women we Love

For the Women We Love – A Breast Cancer Action Plan and Caregiver’s Guide for Men.
Men Against Breast Cancer is pleased and excited to announce the release of our book called, FOR THE WOMEN WE LOVE, A Breast Cancer Action Plan and Caregiver’s Guide For Men.
This is a no-nonsense navigation and survival [...]

Book: Crossing Divides

Crossing Divides by Scott Bischke:  A Couple’s Story of Cancer, Hope, and Hiking Montana’s Continental Divide.
Crossing Divides artfully blends Scott Bischke and his wife Katie Gibson’s agonizing struggle against Kate’s advanced, recurrent, “terminal” cancer with the story of their three month, 800+ mile hike along the Continental Divide Trail across Montana. Numerous [...]

Free Book: Exercise And The Cancer Patient – And Survivor

Surviving cancer and making it through cancer treatment are major accomplishments. Most, if not all, survivors find a new priority in life: keeping cancer from returning. “Several recent studies suggest that higher levels of physical activity are associated with a reduced risk of the cancer coming back and a longer survival after a cancer diagnosis,” [...]