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A historical assessment of cancer addresses both the courageous battles against the complex disease and the misperceptions and hubris that have compromised modern understandings, providing coverage of such topics as ancient-world surgeries and the developments of present-day treatments.
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Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
The New York Times bestselling novel that inspired the hit film! This is the funniest book you’ll ever read about death. It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the...
6) Gold
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Cyclists Zoe and Kate are friends and athletic rivals for Olympic gold, while Kate and her husband Jack, also a world-class cyclist, must contend with the recurrence of their young daughter's leukemia.
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Little, Brown and Company
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2022.
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English
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Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She’d lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerry’s death, she decided to make one small change in her life—she shut down his landline, which crashed her internet. She ended up in Verizon hell. She channeled her grief the best way she knew: by writing a New York Times op-ed. The piece caught the attention of Peter, a Bay Area psychiatrist,...
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Red gloves series volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
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In this powerful holiday story, a man who lost everything has his whole life changed after a little girl’s letter reminds him of the true meaning of Christmas.
Ten years later Big Earl meets Gideon, a seven-year-old leukemia patient who believes with all her heart that "Christmas means never having to ask God how much he loves us." Gideon is determined to reach this lonely and hurting man who hates Christmas — and he...Author
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The follow-up to her critically acclaimed Lie to Me, J.T. Ellisons Tear Me Apart is the powerful story of a mother willing to do anything to protect her daughter even as their carefully constructed world unravels around them. One moment will change their lives forever Competitive skier Mindy Wright is a superstar in the making until a spectacular downhill crash threatens not just her racing career but her life. During surgery, doctors discover shes...
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Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A teenage girl heads towards the hospital waiting room where the doctors are going to tell her how much time she's got to live. As she walks, she thinks about her journey up to this point . . . the terrible decor in the hospital, wearing a headscarf, the horrible treatments, but also being with her friends, family, and her new boyfriend Victor. This is a story about cancer with a happy ending. It's about life, love, and especially, hope.
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ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press
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2018.
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English
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When Eric Wendel was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 1966, the survival rate was 10 percent. Today, it is 90 percent. Even as politicians call for a "Cancer Moonshot," this accomplishment remains a pinnacle in cancer research. The authors daughter, then a medical student at Georgetown Medical School, told her father about this amazing success story. Tim Wendel soon discovered that many of the doctors at the forefront of this effort...
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Urano
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2022.
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Español
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A sus veintidós años, Suleika Jaouad tenía toda la vida por delante. hasta que el cáncer la interrumpió. Un tiempo después, dio a conocerse en Estados Unidos por su columna en el New York Times titulada «Vida interrumpida», en la que narraba en tiempo real la impactante experiencia de su enfermedad, una leucemia agresiva con una tasa de supervivencia del treinta y cinco por ciento y resistente al tratamiento. Entre dos reinos...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
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All her life, 13-year old Anna has helped her sister fight leukemiea. Anna has provided platelets, bone marrow, and even stem cells to ensure Kate's survival. But when their parents ask her to donate a kidney, Anna has had enough. She enlist the aid of a lawyer and announces her intention to sue for control of her own body.
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Distributed by Workman Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2013
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English
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This work focuses on what is widely viewed as the 'poster child' of rational drug development in the cancer research world. The history of the founding of a genetic mutant chromosome in the indication of Chronic myeloid leukemia disease, and the subsequent development of "Gleevec," is the keynote of this astounding publication.
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W.W. Norton & Company
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[2017]
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English
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On a still summer night in a seventeenth-century canal house in Amsterdam's old quarter, Pia de Jong gives birth to a delicate, bright-eyed baby girl with a riddle on her back―a pale blue spot that soon multiplies. In a bare, air-conditioned hospital room, a doctor reveals the devastating answer: it is a rare and deadly form of leukemia, often treated with chemotherapy, a cure nearly as dangerous to a newborn as the disease itself. Pia and her husband...
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Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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When Ryan dies in Afghanistan, he leaves a letter asking that his friend Beckett watch over his sister, Ella. Beckett has already been corresponding with her under his nickname, Chaos, and after leaving the service he goes to visit Ella, who is the motherof twins. One of the twins has been diagnosed with leukemia, and Ella is dealing with the illness while running a business-- singlehandedly. When Beckett becomes part of Ella's life, will his promise...
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Putnam
Pub. Date
c1977
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IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
20) Raina's story
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Angels in pink volume 2
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2005
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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After sixteen-year-old Raina learns that she is a perfect match for donating bone marrow to a leukemia patient in Virginia, she discovers that the young woman is the sister she never knew she had.
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