The BC Cancer Library
Delivering timely service and evidence-informed resources to people in BC and the Yukon facing cancer and those involved in oncology care or research.
Delivering timely service and evidence-informed resources to people in BC and the Yukon facing cancer and those involved in oncology care or research.
"Improved cancer treatment and survival rates have resulted in a growing number of cancer survivors who live years, and even decades, after their cancer diagnosis. Insights into what the experience of cancer survivorship looks like and how it can be navigated are much sought after by cancer survivo…
A stale marriage. A deadly diagnosis. For Sally Connolly, three years of struggle followed her husband Peter's surgery for terminal brain cancer at age 61. Choosing treatment options that interfered least with his career, Peter focused his limited energy on work, with little left for his family, fu…
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library | Available | ||
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VIC Cancer Info Ctr | Available | ||
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency KEL Cancer Info Ctr | Available |
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency KEL Cancer Info Ctr | On Loan, due Wednesday, May 22, 2024 | ||
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library | Available | ||
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency ARHCC Cancer Info Ctr | Available |
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library | On Loan, due Tuesday, April 30, 2024 | ||
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VIC Cancer Info Ctr | Available |
"A moving and honest graphic memoir about the unexpected cancer journey of a young, queer, mixed-race woman. At the age of twenty-five, Kimiko Tobimatsu was a young, queer, mixed-race woman with no history of health problems whose world was turned upside down when she was diagnosed with breast canc…
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency KEL Cancer Info Ctr | Available | ||
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VIC Cancer Info Ctr | Available | ||
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library | Available |
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency ARHCC Cancer Info Ctr | Available | ||
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency PG Cancer Info Ctr | Available | ||
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency KEL Cancer Info Ctr | Available | ||
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VIC Cancer Info Ctr | Available | ||
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library | Available | ||
| c.2 BC Cancer Agency VIC Cancer Info Ctr | Available | ||
| c.2 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library | Available |
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library | Available | ||
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VIC Cancer Info Ctr | Available |
"The moving, inspiring story of a young husband and father who, when diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of thirty-three, sets out to build a legacy for his infant son...Powerful and unvarnished, drawing on her conversations with Layton, and his own writing, This Is Not the End of Me contains…
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VIC Cancer Info Ctr | Available | ||
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library | Available |
"These stories are teachings, prophecy and protocols shared throughout the years by elders, language speakers, medicine people and helpers. They have been the foundation to individual healing and learning self-love."--Back cover
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency KEL Cancer Info Ctr | Available | ||
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library | Available | ||
| c.2 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library | Available |
"When her mother is diagnosed with cancer, Rachel Matlow is concerned but hopeful. It's Stage 1, so her mom will get surgery and everything will go back to normal. But growing up in Rachel's family, there was no normal... Dead Mom Walking is the hilarious and heartfelt story of what happens when t…
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library | Available |
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library | Available | ||
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VIC Cancer Info Ctr | Available |
"When Barbara Abercrombie's husband died, she found the language of condolence irritating, no matter how well intended. 'My husband had not gone to a better place as if he were off on a holiday. He had not passed like clouds overhead, nor was he my late husband as if he'd missed a train. I had not …
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library | Available |
"Illustrations and easy-to-read text highlight ways to find reminders of loved ones in everyday actions, even after they are gone."; Ages 4-8
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library | Available |
"Opening to Grief is a companion for this tender time. With the demeanor and tone of a loving friend, the authors offer an invitation to grieve fully, to turn toward your emotions and experiences however they arrive, and to follow your own path toward healing....Because we love, we grieve. And when…
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library | Available | ||
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency ARHCC Cancer Info Ctr | Available | ||
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VIC Cancer Info Ctr | Available |
As a health-care journalist, Kate Pickert knew the emotional highs and lows of medical treatment well -- but always from a distance, through the stories of her subjects. That is, until she was unexpectedly diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer at the age of 35. As she underwent more th…
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library | Available |
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library | Available |
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VIC Cancer Info Ctr | Available |
| c.1 BC Cancer Agency VAN Library | Available |
"Times of Mourning: Bereavement, Clinical Challenge, and Subjectivity works around the homonymous property of the word duelo in Spanish, which means both grief and duel. Adriana Bauab argues that the mourning process is a challenge and an opportunity for the subject to recompose their symbolic univ…
