Download or read book My Noisy Cancer Comeback written by Fitz Koehler and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding a cancerous lump in her breast seven weeks after a clean mammogram was terrifying. But fitness expert and race announcer Fitz Koehler, refused to play the victim or allow breast cancer to steal the extraordinary life she was living. In My Noisy Cancer Comeback, Fitz reveals the juicy and gory details of her 16-month battle, all while zigzagging across America. Enduring chemotherapy, radiation, and surgeries in the public eye wasn't easy. You'll laugh, cry, wince, and cheer as she chronicles the clash of an avalanche of side effects with 22 major race weekends. Her inspirational tale encompasses the terror of diagnosis, bald heads and black dresses, spectacular stages, parenting with cancer, perspective and most importantly, triumph. You'll walk away grittier, more optimistic, and inspired to conquer any obstacle.
Download or read book Your Healthy Cancer Comeback written by Fitz Koehler and published by Fitzness Books. This book was released on 2023-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Healthy Cancer Comeback: Sick to Strong is a comprehensive guidebook for cancer patients and survivors eager to maintain or regain strength, stamina, vibrancy, athleticism, overall fitness, and health. Cancer and its treatment can be brutal. Instead of surrendering your health and fitness to this monster, fight back and control the things you can! You'll learn: How healthy habits enhance your chances of remission and reduce chances of recurrence. How a strong mental game will help you control your outcomes.Why healthy habits and a commitment to fitness will make your life better/easier.How to pursue fitness during and after chemotherapy, radiation, surgeries, and other therapies. Mental strategies for remaining positive and taking control over the things you can. Exactly how to pursue fitness during and after cancer.How to choose foods that help instead of hurt. How to manage weight loss or weight gain.How to show compassion for yourself. Exercises you can do in exam rooms, hospitals, chairs, beds, showers, and beyond. How and why to seek out supplemental services like physical therapy, massage therapy, acupuncture, mental health counseling, sexual health counseling, and more. How to show compassion for yourself while still working to achieve more. How to best utilize the support of loved ones.How to keep the joy in your life. How to goal set and change your workouts to achieve greatness on the other side of cancer.Ideas for forcing joy and happiness into your life.
Download or read book Reclaim Your Strength and Hope written by Emilee Garfield and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emilee Garfield is a professional life coach, two time cancer survivor and has been a movement educator for 21 years, specializing in therapeutic Pilates and yoga. She helps women in cancer recovery overcome both emotional and physical scars, breaking through their pain, frustration and limiting beliefs. After having chemotherapy and major abdominal surgery for Stage 3c ovarian cancer, she embarked on a mission to help other women in cancer recovery have a better quality of life. Emilee created the Cancer Core Recovery® Method to safely exercise after major abdominal surgery and while living with an ostomy. Her fun and inspiring attitude and loving guidance attracts women worldwide to her online courses, one-on-one and group coaching, retreats and workshops.
Download or read book Journal written by Lynn Redgrave and published by Umbrage Editions. This book was released on 2004 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling documentary of treatment and recovery with an unprecedented level of intimacy.
Download or read book Business from Bed written by Joan Friedlander and published by Demos Medical Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When youíre recovering from a medical emergency, the work-life equation can be thrown into turmoil. Joan Friedlander, herself diagnosed with a chronic illness over twenty years ago, knows this personally and can show you how to get back in the game, whether youíre a self-employed entrepreneur, a small business owner, or re-entering the traditional job market. For those recovering from a health crisis, living with disability, or adjusting to life with a chronic disease, health comes first but professional life doesnít have to suffer. The 6-step comeback plan in Business from Bed is designed to help you successfully integrate emotional, social, and physical healing with the practical aspects of rebuilding a business or career and getting back to work. With Business from Bed, youíll learn how to: Rediscover your inherent value and design your ideal life Evaluate options for working from home Find invigorating and meaningful work Manage a prolonged illness and understand your bodyís needs Talk to clients, bosses, and co-workers about your health Balance physical, mental, and professional well-being
Download or read book Beat Breast Cancer Like a Boss written by Ali Rogin and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edie Falco, Sheryl Crow, Athena Jones, and other breast cancer survivors and “previvors” tell their powerful, inspiring stories in this collection. Drawing from first-hand interviews of successful, high-profile women from myriad industries and perspectives, award-winning journalist Ali Rogin brings together an all-star support and recovery team to inspire anyone confronting a cancer diagnosis, along with their loved ones. Learn how preeminent actresses, musicians, politicians, journalists, and entrepreneurs faced a formidable disease and put it in its place. In their own words, the women of Beat Breast Cancer Like a Boss inform and encourage other women by sharing their experiences and advice. Learn how they told loved ones about their diagnoses, navigated treatment options, and managed the work/life/cancer balance. Rogin, too, faced great uncertainty when she tested positively for the BRCA1 genetic mutation at age twenty. She found answers in the vibrant community of breast cancer survivors and “previvors” who also stared down the odds. With her brave decision to undergo a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy before even graduating college, Rogin joined this diverse sisterhood of women confronting breast cancer in its many forms with dignity, strength, and humor.
Download or read book Physical Activity and Cancer written by Kerry S. Courneya and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-26 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores in depth the relation between physical activity and cancer control, including primary prevention, coping with treatments, recovery after treatments, long-term survivorship, secondary prevention, and survival. The first part of the book presents the most recent research on the impact of physical activity in preventing a range of cancers. In the second part, the association between physical activity and cancer survivorship is addressed. The effects of physical activity on supportive care endpoints (e.g., quality of life, fatigue, physical functioning) and disease endpoints (e.g., biomarkers, recurrence, survival) are carefully analyzed. In addition, the determinants of physical activity in cancer survivors are discussed, and behavior change strategies for increasing physical activity in cancer survivors are appraised. The final part of the book is devoted to special topics, including the relation of physical activity to pediatric cancer survivorship and to palliative cancer care.
Download or read book Adjuvant Therapy for Breast Cancer written by Monica Castiglione and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-07-11 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adjuvant treatment is administered prior to or as follow up to surgical procedures for breast cancer. Proven success in using medical therapies allowing for breast conserving procedures or reducing risk of occurrence. Although there has been much progress towards a cure, including the introduction of new targeted therapies, metastasizing cancer remains highly incurable.
Download or read book What It Takes written by Mark Herzlich and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011, he became starting linebacker for the New York Giants and triumphed in the Super Bowl—after being told his cancer diagnosis meant he would never play football again.... As a child, Herzlich found true meaning in football, eventually turning his passion into a first-team All-American spot at Boston College. But the budding star was sidelined by persistent, debilitating pain in his left leg. The shocking diagnosis: He had Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare bone cancer. Doctors put his odds of survival as low as ten percent—and no one thought he would be able to run, much less play football, again. Then Herzlich learned of a radical treatment that would give him the best chance to regain his strength and maybe even play football again, but it could cost him his life. Relying on family, friends, faith, and deep wells of determination to help him through treatment, his plan worked. Not only could he run, but he was physically stronger than ever, and mentally ready to battle his way into the NFL. When he was passed over by all thirty-two teams in the draft, he dug deeper and continued his training, winning a spot in the Giants’ training camp and, eventually, on the team. Mark Herzlich fought a battle against cancer, against statistics, and some days against himself. Told with candor and raw emotion, What It Takes is a story for anyone who has ever fought to beat the odds, for anyone who has ever been told that what they are about to attempt is next to impossible. INCLUDES PHOTOS With a foreword by New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin
Download or read book The Great Physician s Rx for Cancer written by Jordan Rubin and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2006-07-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Jordan Rubin, with David Remedios, M.D., shows how to adopt the 7 Keys in The Great Physician's Rx for Health and Wellness to focus aggressively on cancer and keep this disease at arm's length.
Download or read book A Cancer Battle Plan written by Anne E. Frahm and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-12-29 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Anne Frahm discovered she had cancer, it had already spread from her breast to her shoulder, ribs, skull, and pelvic bone, and had eaten into every vertebrae in her spine.Doctors prescribed the traditional treatments of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, but Anne continued to sicken. Yet, throughout the course of her disease the author persisted in researching the connection between cancer and nutrition. She formulated a comprehensive battle plan and within five weeks of implementing it, her cancer disappeared without a trace. She has been cancer-free ever since. As A Cancer Battle Plantakes us along on Anne Frahm's journey of reclaiming her body and health, we learn: the nutritional rebuilding process that can help us win the war against cancer; how specific preventive measures can neutralize cancer and other degenerative diseases; how to find a team of doctors and professionals that will help battle cancer most successfully; how to encourage and help someone fight cancer; and how to keep a fighting spirit and maintain morale. With a new introduction by the author, A Cancer Battle Plan is a riveting account that has helped tens of thousands and is an invaluable nutritional program for anyone wishing to recover or perpetuate their good health.
Download or read book The Healing Code written by Alexander Loyd and published by Balance. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 1 million copies sold worldwide and translated into 29 languages, Dr. Alex Loyd's international bestselling book is a life-changing program that uses energy medicine to heal mental and physical challenges. The Healing Code is your healing kit for life-to recover from the issues you know about, and repair the ones you don't. The book also includes: The Seven Secrets of life, health, and prosperity The 10-second Instant Impact technique for defusing daily stress The Heart Issues Finder, the only test that identifies your source issues in a succinct personalized report Dr. Alex Loyd discovered how to activate a physical function built into the body that consistently and predictably removes the source of 95% of all illness and disease. His findings were validated by tests and by the thousands of people from all over the world who have used The Healing Code's system to heal virtually any physical, emotional, or relational issue. His testing also revealed that there is a "Universal Healing Code" that will heal most issues for most people. In this book you will get that Universal Healing Code, which takes only minutes to do.
Download or read book Tumor Organoids written by Shay Soker and published by Humana Press. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cancer cell biology research in general, and anti-cancer drug development specifically, still relies on standard cell culture techniques that place the cells in an unnatural environment. As a consequence, growing tumor cells in plastic dishes places a selective pressure that substantially alters their original molecular and phenotypic properties.The emerging field of regenerative medicine has developed bioengineered tissue platforms that can better mimic the structure and cellular heterogeneity of in vivo tissue, and are suitable for tumor bioengineering research. Microengineering technologies have resulted in advanced methods for creating and culturing 3-D human tissue. By encapsulating the respective cell type or combining several cell types to form tissues, these model organs can be viable for longer periods of time and are cultured to develop functional properties similar to native tissues. This approach recapitulates the dynamic role of cell–cell, cell–ECM, and mechanical interactions inside the tumor. Further incorporation of cells representative of the tumor stroma, such as endothelial cells (EC) and tumor fibroblasts, can mimic the in vivo tumor microenvironment. Collectively, bioengineered tumors create an important resource for the in vitro study of tumor growth in 3D including tumor biomechanics and the effects of anti-cancer drugs on 3D tumor tissue. These technologies have the potential to overcome current limitations to genetic and histological tumor classification and development of personalized therapies.
Download or read book Mohs Micrographic Surgery written by Stephen N. Snow and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mohs Micrographic Surgery, an advanced treatment procedure for skin cancer, offers the highest potential for recovery--even if the skin cancer has been previously treated. This procedure is a state-of-the-art treatment in which the physician serves as surgeon, pathologist, and reconstructive surgeon. It relies on the accuracy of a microscope to trace and ensure removal of skin cancer down to its roots. This procedure allows dermatologists trained in Mohs Surgery to see beyond the visible disease and to precisely identify and remove the entire tumor, leaving healthy tissue unharmed. This procedure is most often used in treating two of the most common forms of skin cancer: basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. The cure rate for Mohs Micrographic Surgery is the highest of all treatments for skin cancer--up to 99 percent even if other forms of treatment have failed. This procedure, the most exact and precise method of tumor removal, minimizes the chance of regrowth and lessens the potential for scarring or disfigurement
Download or read book Knockout written by Suzanne Somers and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on the expertise of eight doctors whose cutting-edge methods are enabling unprecedented cures, sharing the celebrity author's personal experiences as well as the survival stories of other cancer patients while identifying lifestyle strategies and challenging mainstream practices. By the best-selling author of Ageless.
Download or read book Hemp Horizons written by John Roulac and published by Chelsea Green Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hemp is the world's most versatile fibre. Roulac traces its historical usage and examines its future. B/W illlustrations.
Download or read book Trouble Makes a Comeback written by Stephanie Tromly and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An utterly satisfying sequel packed with razor-sharp dialogue, a love triangle you didn't see coming, and the most charismatic dynamic duo you ever met. Now that the infuriating and irresistible Philip Digby has left town for a lead on his sister who disappeared years ago, Zoe Webster is looking forward to a quiet spring semester. She's dating a cute quarterback, hanging out with new friends, and enjoying being "a normal." Which is of course when Digby comes back. He needs Zoe's help, and not just to find his sister. Zoe can either choose to stay on her current path toward popularity, perfect SAT scores, and Princeton, or she can take a major detour with Digby, and maybe find out what that kiss he stole from her really meant. Digby and his over-the-top schemes always lead somewhere unexpected and Zoe's beginning to learn she might just like jumping into the unknown. When it comes to Digby, for Zoe at least, the choice might already be made.
