Author

Adams, Heidi Schultz

Schultz, Christopher

Place of Publication

Guilford, CT

Publisher

Lyons Press

Publication Date

2010

Physical Description

275 p.

Series

Proquest Ebook Central

ebrary books for public

Subjects

Neoplasms

Adolescent

Young Adult

Social Support

Personal Narratives

Self Care

World Wide Web

Health Services

Popular Work

ISBN

9780762766659

Language

English

Material Type

Ebook

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Internet

Website Notes

Patients and the public of BC and the Yukon can access this title by emailing library@bccancer.bc.ca or calling 1.888.675.8001 x 7000 (toll-free) to obtain a username and password.

Author

Raza, Azra

Place of Publication

New York, NY

Publisher

Basic Books

Publication Date

2019

Physical Description

xii, 347 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subjects

Neoplasms - therapy

Neoplasms - prevention & control

Medical Oncology

Personal Narratives

ISBN

9781541699526

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Kelowna Cancer Info Ctr

Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number

QZ21 R278 2018

Copies

Author

McKinney, Neil

Place of Publication

[Vancouver, BC?]

Publisher

Liaison Press

Publication Date

2010

Physical Description

491p. ; 26 cm.

Subjects

Neoplasms - therapy

Complementary Therapies - methods

Naturopathy

Medical Oncology

Integrative Medicine

ISBN

9781894953733

1894953738

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Vancouver Library

Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number

QZ266 M153n 2010

Copies

Author

McKinney, Neil

Edition

2nd ed.

Place of Publication

[Vancouver, BC?]

Publisher

Liaison Press

Publication Date

2012

Physical Description

540 p. ; 26 cm.

Subjects

Neoplasms - therapy

Complementary Therapies - methods

Naturopathy

Medical Oncology

Integrative Medicine

ISBN

9781894953986

1894953983

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number

QZ266 M153n 2012

Copies

Author

Graham, Sarah

Place of Publication

London, UK

Publisher

Green Tree

Publication Date

2023

Physical Description

iii, 284 pages ; 22 cm

Subjects

Women's Health

Women's Health Services

Sexism

Gender equity

Patient Advocacy

Popular Work

Personal Narratives

Abstract

"An inclusive and empowering manifesto for change in women's healthcare. Exploring the systemic and deep-rooted sexism within medicine, Rebel Bodies offers actionable ways for women to advocate for ourselves and others, and get the diagnosis and treatment we need." -- Back cover

Notes

This resource was purchased with a donation from the Order of the Eastern Star.

ISBN

9781399401111

1399401114

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Abbotsford Cancer Info Ctr

Kelowna Cancer Info Ctr

Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Vancouver Library

Call Number

WA309 G738r 2023

Copies

Author

Sharman, Zena

Place of Publication

[Vancouver, BC?]

Publisher

Arsenal Pulp Press

Publication Date

2016

Series

EBSCOhost eBook

Subjects

Sexual and Gender Minorities

Transgender Persons

Minority Health

Health Services for Transgender Persons

Healthcare Disparities

Personal Narratives

Abstract

Table of contents:

Introduction: Why Queer and Trans Health Stories Matter -- Appendix -- Call in Sick -- Name Game: Being Seen in My Entirety -- Unlearning: Improving Trans Care by Reorienting Medical and Nursing Discourse -- Navigating This Life as a Black Intersex Man -- Confessions of a Gender Specialist -- Read This Before Your Next Clinical Visit: Cheap Advice for Frequent Patients -- Queer and Trans Health Innovation Profile: The Q Card Project (Seattle, Washington) -- Using Medical Education to Advance Health of LGBT Individuals -- Health as a Spiritual Practice: Or, Please Don?t Call Me ?Lady? -- Our Caregiving, Ourselves -- Queer in Common Country -- NIRKwUSCIN -- A Journey Towards Safety -- Queer and Trans Health Innovation Profile: Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services LGBTQ+ Newcomer Initiatives (Toronto, Ontario) -- Sex Work Solidarity as Healing: in four parts -- The Disclosure of Specialization: A QPOC Therapist?s Questions about Embodied Mirroring and Mentoring -- Trans Grit -- Queer and Trans Health Innovation Profile: The Trans Buddy Program (Nashville, Tennessee) -- Rivers of Our Lives: Stigma and Dislocations as Part of Life Course -- Sick of it: One patient?s adventures in heteronormativity -- Remedial Asexuality: Sexualnormativity in Health Care -- Five Things Providers Need to Know about Bisexual People -- Queer and Trans Health Innovation Profile: The Affirmations Deck (Toronto, Ontario) -- Breaking Down Barriers: A Journey to Increase Collaboration and Understanding Between LGBT2-SQ and Medical Communities -- Baby Escape Plan Two -- Mind Your Words -- Queer and Trans Health Innovation Profile: The Catherine White Holman Wellness Centre (Vancouver, BC) -- We Don?t Have to Numb Out to Be Out -- Depathologizing Trans -- Through the Body -- Healing Exchanges: The Necessity of Beloved Community for Queer Survivors of Colour -- Not a Liability: On Trauma-Informed Care and Community Acupuncture -- Listen -- Waiting on Information from Doctors.

Notes

SOGIE 2SLGBTQIA Collection

ISBN

9781551526584

9781551526591

Language

English

Material Type

Ebook

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Internet

Website Notes

Patients and the public of BC and the Yukon can access this title by emailing library@bccancer.bc.ca to obtain a username and password from the Library.

Author

McKinney, Neil

Edition

4th ed.

Place of Publication

Victoria, BC

Publisher

Liaison Press

Publication Date

2020

Physical Description

601 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Subjects

Neoplasms - therapy

Complementary Therapies - methods

Naturopathy

Medical Oncology

Integrative Oncology

Integrative Medicine

ISBN

9781926946153

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Vancouver Library

Call Number

QZ266 M153n 2020

Copies

Author

McKinney, Neil

Edition

3rd ed.

Place of Publication

[Victoria, BC?]

Publisher

Liaison Press

Publication Date

2016

Physical Description

530 p. ; 26 cm.

Subjects

Neoplasms - therapy

Complementary Therapies - methods

Naturopathy

Medical Oncology

Integrative Oncology

Integrative Medicine

ISBN

9781926946023

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number

QZ266 M153n 2016

Website Notes

This resource was purchased with a donation from the Order of the Eastern Star.

Copies

Alternate Title

Object lessons

Author

Leahy, Anna

Place of Publication

New York, NY

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Publication Date

2017

Physical Description

147 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.

Series

Object lessons

Subjects

Neoplasms - psychology

Neoplasms - therapy

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Medical Oncology

Medicine in Literature

Terminology as Topic

ISBN

9781501323300

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Kelowna Cancer Info Ctr

Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number

QZ200 L434 2017

Copies

Continues / Continued By

BC Cancer Agency / BC Cancer Foundation / BC Cancer Research Centre annual report

Alternate Title

BCCR report

BCCR annual report

Annual research report

BC Cancer Agency annual research report

BC Cancer annual research report

BC Cancer research

BC Cancer research report

BCCA annual research report

BCCA research report

Corporate Author

BC Cancer Agency

Place of Publication

[Vancouver, BC?]

Publisher

BC Cancer Agency

Subjects

Research

Biomedical Research

Clinical Trials

Neoplasms - therapy

Genomics

Research Personnel

Medical Oncology

Research Report

British Columbia

Language

English

Material Type

Report

Serial

Frequency

Annual

Holdings

VC Library: 2015-

VC Library Archives: 2016-

Audience

Professional

Patient or Public

Location

Vancouver Library BCCA Pubs

VC Library Archives

Continues / Continued By

Brain tumour : clinicians, patients, caregivers, advocates, surgeons, researchers, nurses, allied healthcare professionals and others - all part of the international brain tumour community : you are not alone on this journey

Alternate Title

Brain tumour magazine

Corporate Author

International Brain Tumour Alliance

Editor

Oliver, Kathy

Strangman, Denis

Edition

World ed.

Place of Publication

Surrey, UK

Publisher

International Brain Tumour Alliance (IBTA)

Publication Date

2011

Physical Description

130 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.

Subjects

Brain Neoplasms - psychology

Social Support

Caregivers

Medical Oncology

Radiation Oncology

Oncology Nursing

World Health

Popular Work

Language

English

Material Type

Serial

Online

Frequency

Annual

Holdings

Online: 2012-

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Internet

Kelowna Library

Abbotsford Library

Call Number

WL358 B814i 2011

Website Notes

Past issues 2012-2015 are available online.

Copies

Corporate Author

Japanese Community Volunteers Association (Tonari Gumi)

Place of Publication

[Vancouver, BC?]

Publisher

Japanese Community Volunteers Association

Publication Date

2018

Physical Description

157 p. : col. ill. ; 16 cm.

Subjects

Vegetables

Plants, Edible

Cookbook

Gardening - methods

Personal Narratives

Popular Work

Abstract

The Japanese Canadian kitchen garden is full of surprises. Easy to grow and nutritionally dense, fresh Japanese vegetables enable you to experience the authentic flavour of Japanese dishes. This book showcases growing and foraging tips, recipes (including vegan options), guides to using Japanese ingredients and stories from seasoned gardeners.

ISBN

9780978337810

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Vancouver Library

Call Number

QZ266 N9 J35 2018

Copies

Author

Mukherjee, Siddhartha

Place of Publication

New York, NY

Publisher

Scribner

Publication Date

2010

Physical Description

xiv, 571 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subjects

Leukemia - history

Neoplasms - history

Medical Oncology

Leukemia - drug therapy

Antineoplastic Agents - history

History of Medicine

History, 20th Century

United States

ISBN

9781439107959

1439107955

9781439170915 (pbk.)

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Vancouver Library

Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Abbotsford Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number

QZ11 AA1 M953e 2010

Copies

Alternate Title

Cancer : the emperor of all maladies (Television program)

Author

Burns, Ken

Goodman, Barak

Mukherjee, Siddhartha

Place of Publication

Arlington, VA

Publisher

PBS

Publication Date

2015

Physical Description

3 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Subjects

Leukemia - history

Neoplasms - history

Biomedical Research - history

Medical Oncology

Leukemia - drug therapy

Antineoplastic Agents - history

History of Medicine

History, 20th Century

United States

ISBN

9781627892773

Language

English

Material Type

Video

DVD

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Abbotsford Cancer Info Ctr

Kelowna Cancer Info Ctr

Vancouver Library

Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number

QZ11.1 C215b 2015 v.1-3

Copies

Corporate Author

First Nations Health Authority

BC Cancer Agency

Place of Publication

[West Vancouver, BC]

Publisher

First Nations Health Authority

Publication Date

[2023?]

Physical Description

67 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.

Subjects

Neoplasms - psychology

Neoplasms - therapy

Neoplasms - rehabilitation

Health Services, Indigenous

Patient Navigation

Self Care

Social Support

Culturally Competent Care

Medicine, Traditional

Personal Narratives

First Nations

Patient Education Handout

Notes

"This booklet is based on an earlier publication Living with Cancer--Everyone Deserves Support...The stories in this book were shared at Telling Our Stories Conference held in Prince George, BC in June 2016"

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Online

Status

Processing

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Vancouver Library

Abbotsford Cancer Info Ctr

Kelowna Cancer Info Ctr

Prince George Cancer Info Ctr

Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Internet

Call Number

QZ201 F527 2023

Copies

Corporate Author

First Nations Health Authority

Metis Nation British Columbia

BC Cancer Agency

BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres

Place of Publication

[West Vancouver, BC]

Publisher

First Nations Health Authority

Publication Date

2017

Physical Description

104 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.

Subjects

Neoplasms - psychology

Neoplasms - therapy

Neoplasms - rehabilitation

Health Services, Indigenous

Patient Navigation

Self Care

Social Support

Culturally Competent Care

Medicine, Traditional

Personal Narratives

First Nations

Patient Education Handout

Notes

The stories in this book were shared at Telling Our Stories Conference held in Prince George, BC in June 2016.

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Online

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Vancouver Library

Abbotsford Cancer Info Ctr

Kelowna Cancer Info Ctr

Prince George Cancer Info Ctr

Vancouver Cancer Info Ctr

Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Internet

Call Number

QZ201 F527 2017

Copies

Corporate Author

First Nations Health Authority

Metis Nation British Columbia

BC Cancer Agency

BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres

Place of Publication

[West Vancouver, BC]

Publisher

First Nations Health Authority

Publication Date

2017

Physical Description

102 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.

Subjects

Neoplasms - psychology

Neoplasms - therapy

Neoplasms - rehabilitation

Health Services, Indigenous

Patient Navigation

Self Care

Social Support

Patient Education

Culturally Competent Care

Medicine, Traditional

Personal Narratives

Metis

First Nations

Patient Education Handout

Notes

The stories in this book were shared at Telling Our Stories Conference held in Prince George, BC in June 2016.

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Online

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Vancouver Library

Abbotsford Cancer Info Ctr

Kelowna Cancer Info Ctr

Prince George Cancer Info Ctr

Vancouver Cancer Info Ctr

Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Internet

Call Number

QZ201 F527m 2017

Copies

Editor

Shwydky, Lori

Place of Publication

Nanoose Bay, BC

Publisher

Rebel Mountain Press

Publication Date

2017

Physical Description

145 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subjects

Sexual and Gender Minorities

Personal Narratives

Canada

Popular Work

Notes

SOGIE 2SLGBTQIA Collection

ISBN

9780994730275

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Vancouver Library

Call Number

WA300 B828 2017

Copies

Author

McIntosh, Linda

Place of Publication

Winnipeg, MB

Publisher

Heartland Associates

Publication Date

2008

Physical Description

287 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subjects

Quadriplegia

Politics

Steven Fletcher

Canada

Biography

Personal Narratives

ISBN

9781896150499

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Vancouver Library

Call Number

WZ100 M152 2008

Copies

Author

Chacaby, Ma-Nee

Plummer, Mary Louisa

Place of Publication

Winnipeg, MB

Publisher

University of Manitoba Press

Publication Date

2016

Series

EBSCOhost eBook

Critical studies in Native history ; 18

Subjects

Elders (Native peoples)

Transgender Persons

Sexual and Gender Minorities

First Nations

Ontario

Canada

Biography

Personal Narratives

Abstract

Table of contents:

1. My Grandmother's and My Family's History in Manitoba and Ontario (1863-1952) -- 2. First Discoveries, Joys, and Sorrows? My Early Childhood in Ombabika (1952-1958) -- 3. Seasonal Activities, First Friendships, and the Beginning of Addiction (1958-1960) -- 4. School, Teenage Friendships, and Having Two Spirits (1960-1965) -- 5. Losing My Grandmother and Mother, Becoming a Parent, and Surviving an Abusive Marriage in Auden (1965-1970) -- 6. Living and Parenting in Thunder Bay and Sault Ste. Marie Before Sobriety (1970-1975) -- 7. Sobriety and Single-Parenting in Thunder Bay (1975-1980) -- 8. Working with Addicted Mothers and Raising Foster Kids with Nate in Winnipeg (1980-1987) -- 9. Coming Out, Falling in Love, and Living with Leah in Thunder Bay and Boston (1987-1991) -- 10. Meeting Grace and Building a Life Together in Kaministiquia (1991-2004) -- 11. Recovering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Becoming an Elder in Thunder Bay (2004-2014).

Notes

SOGIE 2SLGBTQIA Collection

ISBN

9780887558122

9780887555039

Language

English

Material Type

Ebook

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Internet

Website Notes

Patients and the public of BC and the Yukon can access this title by emailing library@bccancer.bc.ca to obtain a username and password from the Library.