My Cancer Journey 2

Colleen began writing when she started chemotherapy. What started out as a way to pass the time was also a way in which she shared her thoughts freely and without reserve as she chronicled her cancer journey. This book contains a collection of Colleen's updates as a window into her life and how she chose to approach it, facing adversity with a grateful heart. Colleen's words of wisdom and life lessons that she shares with others are truly inspiring.

Navigating your Cancer Journey is a book that dares to understand the unique challenges that exist for cancer patients and caregivers at home, during treatment. This book was written by an oncology nurse navigator to empower cancer patients and caregivers with knowledge on topics like: • Financial Resources • Exercise and the Cancer Patient • Nutrition • Complementary and Alternative Therapies • Clinical Trials • Self Help • Cancer Medications • Medical Insurance • What is Cancer Anyway? • Cancer and Sexuality • End of Life Counseling • Care for the Caregivers • How to travel with cancer • Survivorship and more… The compassion and understanding with which Marais writes feels like a warm, calming hug from a beloved best friend. Her obvious and refreshing belief in the power of the patient takes center stage and is solidified through eloquently penned patient stories that bring home the message: You are not alone. Marais is a natural writer whose descriptions gently move the reader from one vivid landscape to another with ease and grace. We sincerely hope she continues to put pen to paper! Angela Wade Dog Ear Publishing Editor

Cancer - it's a menacing word, and when we hear it from our own doctor, it can be terrifying. But there's hope. In this practical, comprehensive "field manual" from seasoned cancer fighters and renowned clinicians Francisco Contreras, MD and Daniel Kennedy, MC you will grab hold of 50 tangible tips, plans, and prescriptive measures for tackling cancer and finding renewed health. 50 Critical Cancer Answers provides the essential information a person needs to create a personal action plan to deal with cancer effectively. Each of the 50 short, easy-to-digest chapters includes a concise explanation of the most effective and sought after cancer treatment in the realms of traditional medicine, natural medicine, emotional support and spiritual care. A succinct commentary is provided to help the reader understand potential benefits, and if it is a realistic treatment option or not. Each chapter includes: - An interview with an expert in the field of the chapter's topic - A "smartphone scannable" QR code linking the reader to You Tube video containing author commentary on the relevant topic - 5 tips from cancer survivors--all 50 cancer survivors have received treatment from the authors' Oasis of Hope cancer centers. Don't let a cancer diagnosis define your circumstances. Instead, develop a plan to identify, attack, and beat cancer.

My book My Cancer Journey A rendezvous with myself is a candid narration of my encounter with breast cancer. It is the story of an ordinary woman who was put in extraordinary circumstances, and who undertook her cancer journey with the utmost courage. This memoir is not just about describing a difficult medical condition. It is about going through the experience, and emerging from it wiser and stronger. It is about using cancer as a life changing experience, despite all the trauma and the loss and the change neednt be for the worse. It is about understanding the choice that a human being has the choice to accept what cannot be changed, and to use one of the toughest fights of life to evolve into a better person, irrespective of the prognosis. Pick up a copy to embark on a rendezvous with your inner self! A factual, informative and profound book, truly from the heart. I highly recommend this book, and it offers some important insights from holistic therapy. Lorraine Smillie, Homeopath and Holistic Healer, UK Paruls account of her experience with breast cancer and what she found helpful will be a useful companion for other young women finding themselves in a similar situation. Dr Caroline Hoffman OAM, PhD, clinical and research director, The Haven, London This is book is a very personal and very honest story of survival from breast cancer. Parul has shown enormous courage to emerge as a strong,determined woman with everything to live for. Beverley van der Molen, Macmillan Information and Education Officer, Pauls Cancer Support Centre and St Georges University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and author of Taking Control of Cancer

Advances in treatment mean that increasing numbers of people now survive cancer in the long term. This book examines the sophisticated medical choices available that help to boost life expectancy and how to maximize your chances of recovery. Topics include: chemotherapy different types of radiotherapy hormone therapy surgery targeted treatments coping with side effects staying comfortable during treatment coping with nausea, pain and fatigue lifestyle and diet In this positive and comprehensive book, Mark Greener says, `Your cancer journey is deeply personal, often difficult and at times frightening, but today?s cutting-edge treatments can help you to live as full a life as possible, for as long as possible.?

The reader will be drawn into the stories of 2 sisters who were both diagnosed with cancer. On their journey they are visited by the spirits of their ancestors. Thats how the writer learns how the emotional experiences of ancestors are still imprinted in our DNA, possibly leading to illness of the body, mind or emotions. The ancestors continue to teach and guide her to release these imprints transforming her condition back to health.

A FACTUAL, TRUE ACCOUNT OF A CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST’S LIFE STORY TOLD FROM THE FRONT LINES OF THE BATTLEFIELDS IN MISSISSIPPI. WHEN THE BATTLE CHANGES FROM FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS TO FIGHTING TO SAVE HER OWN LIFE AGAINST BREAST CANCER, MEDICAL SCIENCE AND FAITH END UP ON A COLLISION COURSE WITH ONLY ONE OUTCOME: LIFE OR DEATH. Book Reviews I urge everyone who wants an inspired account of God's unending love for his children to read this book. Stephanie has witnessed for justice, and spoken truth to power through many dangers, toils and snares, always trusting God to see her through. Now, she tells how God moves in mysterious ways to see her through another kind of peril. Her strong faith will be a blessing! - Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery “Dean” of the Civil Rights Movement President Emeritus, SCLC Former Chairman, Black Leadership Forum Delivered Benediction at President Barack Obama’s Inauguration Stephanie’s life is one of courage and commitment. Here is a story of standing your ground and fighting for our future. This book is a gift to all... - Benjamin Todd Jealous President and CEO, NAACP Intense, as well as therapeutic. Stephanie’s story puts life in perspective for folks. - Dorothy T. Terry, Ph.D Former High School English Teacher of Author This book goes to the core of the reader’s total consciousness about any experience, either personal or vicarious, with any form of cancer. Stephanie Parker-Weaver bares her soul and opens a window for the rest of us to see how a true survivor copes with trauma after trauma. This is a lesson for each of us who reads her book. She is deliberate in writing in such a manner that her own struggle is under-played while she educates the rest of us about the Her2 gene. REBIRTH: A Breast Cancer Journey of Many; Survival of Few, written in Stephanie’s own inimitable style, is one more piece of herself—one more gift—that Stephanie shares with others. - Corinne Williams Anderson, Ed.D. Senior Technical Adviser, Liberian Teacher Training Program; former Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs, Tougaloo College President, American Association of University Women, Jackson Branch President, Central MS Chapter of Nat’l Coalition of 100 Black Women Past President, National Federation of Democratic Women Third Edition

This book is me - talking to you. It's not grammatically correct - I fragment a lot. It probably has some errors - I'm not perfect and neither is this book. It certainly is not politically correct and may even offend some people. I tell it like it is, as I have always done. You rarely have to wonder where I stand on something - I have an opinion on almost everything. I have written this in my style - like I'm sitting next to you in the same room telling you my story. I was diagnosed with Stage III cancer in November, 2008. I experienced a short period of remission until my Stage IV - terminal diagnosis in February, 2010. This book covers the period of my initial diagnosis to where I am now in May, 2010. Cancer is a dirty word! I have accepted that I will probably die from cancer. I have not accepted that my life is over. This book is intended as a gift. A gift from me to the reader. I'm not telling anyone how to do this or that they should handle it the way I am approaching it. It's just my story of how I am dealing with it and attempting to turn devastation into opportunity. Every dollar we bring in with the sale of this book will go towards my dream project - My Sister's Place, Too - a transitional housing program for women and children who have made the decision to leave their abusive situations and start a new life. There is a chapter devoted to this project. You can help me achieve my dream by purchasing this book for yourself or better yet as a thoughtful gift for anyone on the cancer journey.