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BOOKS RECENTLY ADDED TO THE CRCFL LIBRARY
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Menopause: The Breakthrough Book on Natural Hormone Balance by John R. Lee, M.D. is a fully revised and updated edition of Dr. Lee’s book describing the author’s plan for restoring balance using bioidentical hormones including natural progesterone.
Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. is a remarkable collection of true stories that addresses the spiritual issues of suffering, meaning, love, faith, and miracles.
My Grandfather’s Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. is a warm and inspiring book in which the author uses stories to remind us of the power of kindness and the joy of being alive.
Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness and the Search for Meaning by Jean Shinoda Bolen. M.D. The title refers to the way in which serious illness brings us close to the soul’s needs. Bolen uses myth, experience and story to illuminate the experience of the seriously ill patient and to show that facing one’s mortality can be a life-transforming, and even a life-saving process.
Bone: A Journal of Wisdom, Strength, and Healing by Marion Woodman is the story of the author’s diagnosis with uterine cancer, her healing process, and her acceptance of life and death. In journal form, she describes how she drew on both physical and spiritual resources to help her come to terms with her illness.
Living through Breast Cancer: What a Harvard doctor and a survivor wants you to know about getting the best care while preserving your self-image by Carolyn M. Kaelin, M.D., M.P.H. (2005) draws on the author’s experiences as both doctor and patient and offers valuable understanding, support, and guidance on coping with and beating breast cancer.
After Breast Cancer: Answers to the Questions You’re Afraid to Ask by Musa Mayer talks frankly about the feelings of uncertainty and fear that breast cancer patients commonly face after treatment and offers advice on how to tackle fears through information and support.
Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life by Thomas Moore is about fostering soulfulness in all aspects of our everyday lives including work, money, love, illness, failure and creativity.
Breast Cancer Basics and Beyond: Treatment, Resources, Self-Help, Good News, Updates by Delthia Ricks, M.S., a medical writer for Newsday, provides comprehensive, up-to-date information about breast cancer that will enable women to better understand their illness and participate in making decisions about all aspects of their treatment and care.
Dr. Michael Hunter’s Breast Cancer Made Simple is a concise, easy to read book that covers the basics of breast cancer, detection, pathology, staging, management, prognosis, and an excellent section on resources.
Everything You Need to Know about Breast Health and Cancer Detection by Virginia Aronson presents information about breast health and breast cancer for teenage readers.
Who Dies? An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying by Stephen and Ondrea Levine. This book addresses many aspects of the dying process with refreshing insight, candor, and lightness, replacing fear with calm, simple, compassionate understanding.
The Courage Muscle: A Chicken’s Guide to Living with Breast Cancer by Monique Doyle Spencer approaches the subject of cancer with humor and information. Spencer’s witty, irreverent, practical guide will be a source of reassurance for patients and their families.
Nordie’s at Noon: The Personal Stories of Four Women “Too Young” for Breast Cancer by Pati Balwancz, Kim Carlos, Jennifer Johnson, and Jana Peters is a thoughtful and inspiring presentation of hope in the midst of the reality of breast cancer. It is especially important for college women and their parents who need to understand that women of all ages can be diagnosed with breast cancer.
Myself: Together Again is the story of delayed breast cancer reconstruction following double mastectomy surgery. A 32-year old woman agreed to have the process of implant reconstruction photographed for this book.
How to Help Children through a Parent’s Serious Illness: Supportive, Practical Advice from a Leading Child Life Specialist by Kathleen McCue is a compassionate guide that explores specific scenarios and offers step-by-step advice that is sensitive to the needs of different age groups, family situations, and types of illness.
Should I Be Tested for Cancer? by H. Gilbert Welch, M.D., M.P.H. is an account of the statistical and medical uncertainties surrounding cancer screening that tells what standard tests can and cannot do and how to protect yourself from overdiagnosis and overtreatment.
100 Questions and Answers about Breast Cancer, 2nd ed. by Zora K. Brown and Harold P. Freeman, M.D. provides valuable information and empowers patients and family members by increasing their skill in knowing what to ask and how to ask questions of health care professionals.
Pink Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy by Samantha King discusses the personal, social, and political costs of transforming breast cancer advocacy from meaningful civic participation in to the purchase of products.
The Death of Mammography: How Our Best Defense Against breast Cancer Is Being Driven to Extinction by Rene Jackson and Alberto Righi describes the biology of breast cancer and treatment options, explains mammography technology, reveals how legislative and legal issues are strangling breast cancer screening, and offers realistic solutions and reforms.
The A to Z of Breast Cancer by Carol Turkington and Karen Krag, M.D. is a comprehensive resource with more than 500 thorough entries discussing prevention, treatments, and much more.
A Woman’s Initiation: Women’s Experiences with Breast Cancer and How It Transformed Their Lives by Diana Murphy is a collection of stories about eighteen ordinary women whose breast cancer diagnosis led to a new, more authentic sense of self.
The Breast Cancer Survivor’s Fitness Plan by Carolyn MM. Kaelin, M.D. features effective inspiring workouts tailored for each type of surgery and adapted for differing fitness levels.
Waking the Warrior Goddess: Harnessing the Power of Nature & Natural Medicines to Achieve Extraordinary Health by Christine Horner, M.D., F.A.C.S., is a compilation of useful knowledge for achieving breast health naturally and leading a healthy, fulfilling life.
Breast Cancer Husband by Marc Silver
After Cancer Treatment: Heal Faster, Better, Stronger by Julie Silver, M.D. is a practical and powerful book for cancer patients who are exhausted and physically devasted after treatment. The author offers a step-by-step guide for physical healing that includes advice on improving strength and fighting fatigue, monitoring mood, and overcoming setbacks.
The Cancer Survivor’s Guide: The Essential Handbook to Life after Cancer by Michael Feuerstein, PhD, MPH and Patricia Findley, DrPH, MSW presents a pragmatic program that provides crucial information survivors need to effectively manage their health.
Fighting Cancer from Within: How to Use the Power of Your Mind for Healing by Martin L. Rossman, M.D. Metu and Lee
Learn about Breast Cancer by Dr. Shenin Sachedina, is a story about 2 young children whose mother has been diagnosed with breast cancer and who seek knowledge and understanding from their friend Dr. S.
The Paper Chain by Claire Blake, Eliza Blanchard, and Kathy Parkinson is a sensitive portrayal of how a parent’s cancer diagnosis can affect a child. This book can help reassure not only children, but their parents as well.
The Complete Guide to Relieving Cancer Pain & Suffering by Richard B. Patt, M.D. and Susan S. Lang gives valuable information about the newest and most up-to-date medications for pain, alternative treatments, a plan for dealing with side effects of treatments, and help for coping with depression, anxiety and fear.