Author

Cousins, Norman

Place of Publication

[Toronto, ON]

Publisher

Bantam Books, Incorporated

Publication Date

1981

Subjects

Attitude to Health

Consumer Participation

Volition

Popular Work

ISBN

0553014919

0553012932

0553343653

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Vancouver Library

Vancouver Cancer Info Ctr

Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number

WD375 C867 1981

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Author

Cousins, Norman

Place of Publication

New York, NY

Publisher

W.W. Norton & Company

Publication Date

1979

Physical Description

173 p. ; 19 cm.

Subjects

Attitude to Health

Consumer Participation

Volition

Personal Narratives

Popular Work

ISBN

9780393038873

0393038874

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Abbotsford Cancer Info Ctr

Prince George Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number

WD375 C867 1979

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Author

Groopman, Jerome E

Place of Publication

New York, NY

Publisher

Random House

Publication Date

2004

Physical Description

xvii, 248 p. ; 25 cm.

Subjects

Hope

Attitude to Health

Physician-Patient Relations

Popular Work

Abstract

Explores the extent to which hope features in the experience of patients with chronic and terminal illnesses; the importance of hope in enabling patients, families, friends, and physicians to meet the challenges of serious illness; the various forms that hope can take; and the role of the physician in fostering or at least not extinguishing hope.

ISBN

0375506381

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Vancouver Library

Vancouver Cancer Info Ctr

Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Surrey Library

Kelowna Library

Abbotsford Cancer Info Ctr

Prince George Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number

WM172 G876 2004

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Author

Myss, Caroline

Place of Publication

New York, NY

Publisher

Three Rivers Press

Publication Date

1996

Subjects

Mental Healing

Mind Body Relations (Metaphysics)

Stress, Psychological

Popular Work

ISBN

0609800140

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number

WM172 M998a 1996

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Alternate Title

Dream images in a time of crisis

Author

Blum, David

Ma, Yo-Yo

Thompson, Rustin

Place of Publication

Medina, WA

Publisher

Sarah Blum

Publication Date

1998

Physical Description

29 minutes

Subjects

Neoplasms - psychology

Art Therapy

Dreams - psychology

Imagery (Psychotherapy)

Relaxation Therapy

Music Therapy

Mental Healing

Popular Work

Language

English

Material Type

Video

DVD

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Vancouver Library

Call Number

QZ266 B659 1998

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Author

Burns, James

Corporate Author

PhotoSensitive

Place of Publication

Mississauga, ON

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd.

Publication Date

2011

Physical Description

191 p. : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.

Subjects

Neoplasms - psychology

Breast Neoplasms - psychology

Survivors

Personal Narratives

Photography

Exhibitions

Pictorial Works

Canada

Popular Work

Abstract

Based on PhotoSensitive's Cancer connections exhibition.

ISBN

9780470964491

0470964499

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Vancouver Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number

QZ201 H967 2011

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Author

Scowcroft, Henry

Place of Publication

London, UK

Publisher

Green Tree

Publication Date

2021

Series

Proquest Ebook Central

Subjects

Neoplasms

Personal Narratives

Popular Work

Abstract

When Henry Scowcroft's partner Zarah was diagnosed with stage IV bladder cancer in her mid-thirties, their world fell apart. In order to cope with the upheaval as they endured scans, aggressive chemotherapy and hospital stays, Henry began writing down and sharing their experiences with friends and family. His day job as a writer for the charity Cancer Research UK helped him to explain everything he was learning from the coalface of cancer treatment - including Zarah's diagnosis and their rollercoaster journey through the health system. After Zarah's untimely death Henry found some closure and comfort by trying to learn more about her cancer from scientific analysis of the test results and biopsies taken during her treatment and enlisted a team of doctors and researchers to help him. Could he have done more? How did Zarah's tumour develop? Could there be a legacy from her death that would help others diagnosed with cancer? This heart-wrenching memoir of love and loss is interspersed with Henry's mission to understand the cancer that took his partner too soon. -- Page 2 of cover

ISBN

9781472975126

9781472975133

Language

English

Material Type

Ebook

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Internet

Vancouver Library

Call Number

QZ201 W432 2021

Website Notes

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

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.

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Author

Maranise, Anthony

Place of Publication

[United States of America]

Publisher

Eternal Insight Press

Publication Date

2017

Physical Description

185 p. : Ill. ; 21 cm.

Subjects

Neoplasms

Christianity

Cancer Survivors

Spirituality

Personal Narratives

Popular Work

ISBN

9780692107225

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Abbotsford Cancer Info Ctr

Kelowna Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number

WM61 M311 2017

Website Notes

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

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Author

Adhikari, Sapana P.

Place of Publication

New York, NY

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Publication Date

2022

Series

Proquest Ebook Central

Subjects

Diagnosis

Human anatomy

Medical Illustration

Patient Education as Topic

Pictorial Works

Popular Work

Abstract

"Diagnosketch is a visual aid to explain medical diagnoses to patients at the bedside. It uses simplified images to illustrate complicated anatomy and concepts. The title, 'Diagnosketch,' combines the term 'diagnosis,' with the term, 'sketch,' paralleling the way the book combines a medical diagnosis with a simplified sketch. It includes common pathologies seen in an acute care setting, especially ones that are easier to explain with pictures"-- Provided by publisher

ISBN

9780197636954

9780197636961

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

Rothman, Barbara Katz

Place of Publication

New York, NY

Publisher

W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Publication Date

1998

Physical Description

272 p. ; 22 cm

Subjects

Human Genetics

Human Genome Project

Human Genome Diversity Project

Ethics, Research

Bioethics

Sociology, Medical

Popular Work

ISBN

093047032

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Vancouver Library

Call Number

QZ50 R846 1998

Copies

Alternate Title

Known causes of human cancer by organ site

Author

International Agency for Research on Cancer

Edition

2017

Publisher

World Health Organization

Series

IARC monographs of carcinogenic risks to humans. Handbooks of cancer prevention.

Subjects

Carcinogens - adverse effects

Neoplasms - etiology

Neoplasms - prevention & control

Smoking - adverse effects

Tobacco Use - adverse effects

Posters

Popular Work

Abstract

"This poster presents the target organs for all agents classified as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1) by the IARC Monographs Programme (in red), and for the interventions showing sufficient evidence of a cancer-preventive effect in the IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention (in green)."

Notes

Entitled Human cancer: known causes and prevention by organ site at http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Publications/presentations.php

2017 edition entitled IARC monographs of carcinogenic risks to humans and Handbooks of cancer prevention.

2014 edition entitled IARC monographs : Known causes of human cancer by organ site.

Material Type

Other

Online

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Internet

Vancouver Library Pamphlet File

Website Notes

Poster available in English, Chinese, French.

Author

Bowler, Kate

Place of Publication

New York, NY

Publisher

Random House

Publication Date

2021

Physical Description

xvi, 224 p. ; 23 cm

Subjects

Courage

Attitude to Death

Terminally Ill - psychology

Colorectal Neoplasms - psychology

Personal Narratives

Popular Work

Abstract

Kate Bowler believed that life was a series of unlimited choices, only to find that she was stuck in a cancerous body at age 35 ... With dry wit and unflinching honesty, she grapples with her cancer diagnosis, her ambition, and her faith and searches for some kind of peace with her limitations in a culture that says that anything is possible.In facing down cancer, Kate, -- a Christian Joan Didion -- (Glennon Doyle), searches for hope without cheap optimism, and truth with room for mystery. We are as fragile as the day we were born, and we will need each other if we're going to tell the truth: Life is beautiful and terrible, full of hope and despair and everything in between, but there's no cure for being human. -- Author's website

Notes

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

ISBN

9780593230770

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Kelowna Cancer Info Ctr

Vancouver Library

Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number

BF789 D4 B787 2021

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Author

Dizon, Don S

Krychman, Michael L

Place of Publication

Sudbury, MA

Publisher

Jones and Bartlett Publishers

Publication Date

2011

Physical Description

x, 101 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects

Papillomavirus, Human

Vaginal Smears

Papillomavirus Infections - prevention & control

Uterine Cervical Neoplasms - prevention & control

Uterine Cervical Neoplasms - etiology

Genital Neoplasms, Female

Genital Neoplasms, Male

Mass Screening

Popular Work

ISBN

9780763781620

0763781622

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Vancouver Library

Kelowna Cancer Info Ctr

Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number

WP480 D622q 2011

Website Notes

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

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Author

Barrow, Mary Mills

Barrow, John F

Place of Publication

Oakland, CA

Publisher

New Harbinger Publications

Publication Date

2005

Physical Description

xii, 203 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subjects

Skin Neoplasms - prevention & control

Melanoma

Sunburn

Sunscreening Agents

Ultraviolet Rays - adverse effects

Protective Clothing

Skin Care

Popular Work

ISBN

9781572244191

1572244194

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Patient or Public

Location

Vancouver Library

Call Number

WR500 B278 2005

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