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21 things you may not know about the Indian Act : helping Canadians make reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a reality

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Joseph, Bob. Port Coquitlam, BC: Indigenous Relations Press , 2018.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: WZ80.5 J83 2018

Availability: 2 copies, 2 available

Alternate Title: Twenty one things you ay not know about the Indian Act

Author: Joseph, Bob

Place of Publication: Port Coquitlam, BC

Publisher: Indigenous Relations Press

Publication Date: 2018

Physical Description: 189 p. ; 20 cm.

Subjects: Canada, Indian Act; Indigenous Canadians - history; Indigenous Canadian - legislation & jurisprudence; Reconciliation; Relational Autonomy; First Nations; Canada

ISBN: 9780995266520

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Kelowna Library; Victoria Library

Call Number: WZ80.5 J83 2018

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Bathsheba's breast : women, cancer and history

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Olson, James S. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press , 2002.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: WP11 O52 2002

Availability: 2 copies, 2 available

Author: Olson, James S

Place of Publication: Baltimore, MD

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Publication Date: 2002

Physical Description: x, 302 p. ; 24 cm.

Subjects: Breast Neoplasms - history; Mastectomy - history

ISBN: 0801869366

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library; Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number: WP11 O52 2002

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Bearing up with cancer : life and living with...

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Smith, Annie. [Toronto, ON]: Second Story Press , 2004.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: QZ201 S642 2004

Availability: 2 copies, 2 available

Author: Smith, Annie

Place of Publication: [Toronto, ON]

Publisher: Second Story Press

Publication Date: 2004

Subjects: Neoplasms - biography - popular works

ISBN: 1896764800

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number: QZ201 S642 2004

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Big squeeze : a social and political history of the controversial mammogram

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Reynolds, Handel. Ithaca: ILR Press , 2012.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: WP815 R463 2012

Availability: 1 copy, 1 available

Author: Reynolds, Handel

Place of Publication: Ithaca

Publisher: ILR Press

Publication Date: 2012

Physical Description: 121 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Culture and politics of health care work

Subjects: Mammography - history; Breast Neoplasms - diagnosis; Breast Neoplasms - radiography; Breast Neoplasms - prevention & control; Friends; Mass Screening; United States

ISBN: 9780801450938

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library

Call Number: WP815 R463 2012

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Calling down the sky

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Deerchild, Rosanna. BookLand Press , 2015.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: WZ80.5 D312 2015

Availability: 2 copies, 2 available

Calling Down the Sky is a poetry collection that describes deep personal experiences and post generational effects of the Canadian Aboriginal Residential School confinements in the 1950''s when thousands of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children were placed in these schools against their parents'…

Author: Deerchild, Rosanna

Publisher: BookLand Press

Publication Date: 2015

Physical Description: 80 p. ; 22 cm

Series: Canadian aboriginal voices

Subjects: Poetry; Indigenous Canadians - history; Child Abuse - history; First Nations - residential schools; First Nations; Canada; Popular Work

Abstract: Calling Down the Sky is a poetry collection that describes deep personal experiences and post generational effects of the Canadian Aboriginal Residential School confinements in the 1950''s when thousands of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children were placed in these schools against their parents'' wishes. Many were forbidden to speak their language and practice their own culture. The author portrays how the ongoing impact of the residential schools problem has been felt throughout generations and has contributed to social problems that continue to exist today. -- Provided by publisher.

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

ISBN: 9781772310054

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Victoria Cancer Info Ctr; Vancouver Library

Call Number: WZ80.5 D312 2015

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Cancer made me a shallower person : a memoir in comics

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Engelberg, Miriam. New York, NY: Harper , 2006.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: WP870 E58c 2006

Availability: 1 copy, 1 available

A cartoonist examines her experience with breast cancer in an irreverent and humourous graphic memoir

Author: Engelberg, Miriam

Place of Publication: New York, NY

Publisher: Harper

Publication Date: 2006

Physical Description: xiii, 126 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subjects: Breast Neoplasms; Neoplasms; Cartoons; Wit and Humor; Social Support; Personal Narratives; Pictorial Works; Biography

Abstract: A cartoonist examines her experience with breast cancer in an irreverent and humourous graphic memoir

ISBN: 9780060789732; 0060789735

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library

Call Number: WP870 E58c 2006

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Cancer schmancer

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Drescher, Fran. New York, NY: Warner Books, Inc. , 2002.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: QZ201 D773 2002

Availability: 3 copies, 3 available

Author: Drescher, Fran

Place of Publication: New York, NY

Publisher: Warner Books, Inc.

Publication Date: 2002

Physical Description: xv, 236 p. ; 24 cm.

Subjects: Neoplasms; Uterine Neoplasms; Biography; Personal Narratives; Popular Work

ISBN: 9780446530194; 0446530190

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library; Victoria Cancer Info Ctr; Abbotsford Cancer Info Ctr; Prince George Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number: QZ201 D773 2002

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Cancer : the emperor of all maladies

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Burns, Ken, Goodman, Barak, Mukherjee, Siddhartha. Arlington, VA: PBS , 2015.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: QZ11.1 C215b 2015 v.1-3

Availability: 4 copies, 4 available

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

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Cancer vixen : a true story

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Marchetto, Marisa Acocella. New York ; Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf , 2006. 1st ed.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: WP870 M317 2006

Availability: 10 copies, 10 available

Comic book memoir of author's experience with breast cancer.

Author: Marchetto, Marisa Acocella

Edition: 1st ed.

Place of Publication: New York ; Toronto

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

Publication Date: 2006

Physical Description: 211 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.

Subjects: Breast Neoplasms; Neoplasms; Graphic Novels; Cartoons; Personal Narratives; Biography; Wit and Humor; Popular Work

Abstract: Comic book memoir of author's experience with breast cancer.

Notes: Surrey CIC keep 2022 (F0002623)

ISBN: 9780676978247 (Toronto); 0307263576 (alk. paper); 067697824X (Toronto)

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library; Abbotsford Cancer Info Ctr; Kelowna Cancer Info Ctr; Surrey Cancer Info Ctr; Vancouver Cancer Info Ctr; Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number: WP870 M317 2006

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Can I still kiss you? : answering your children's questions about cancer

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Russell, Neil. Deerfield Beach, Fl.: Health Communications, Inc. , 2001.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: QZ201 R965 2001

Availability: 2 copies, 2 available

A series of questions and answers dealing with diagnosis, surgery, radiation and chemotherapy during and after treatment.

Author: Russell, Neil

Place of Publication: Deerfield Beach, Fl.

Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.

Publication Date: 2001

Subjects: Neoplasms - psychology - popular works - biography; Parent-Child Relations - popular works

Abstract: A series of questions and answers dealing with diagnosis, surgery, radiation and chemotherapy during and after treatment.

ISBN: 1558749284

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Cancer Info Ctr; Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number: QZ201 R965 2001

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Chance for life : the Suzanne Giroux story

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Giroux, Suzanne, Burnett, Robyn. [Toronto, ON]: ECW Press , 2001.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: WP870 G528 2001

Availability: 1 copy, 1 available

Author: Giroux, Suzanne; Burnett, Robyn

Place of Publication: [Toronto, ON]

Publisher: ECW Press

Publication Date: 2001

Subjects: Breast Neoplasms; Biography; Popular Work

ISBN: 1550224492

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number: WP870 G528 2001

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Chasing daylight : how my forthcoming death transformed my life : a final account

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O'Kelly, Eugene, Postman, Andrew. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill , 2008.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: BF789 D4 O41 2008

Availability: 1 copy, 1 available

Chasing daylight is the inspirational memoir of former KPMG CEO Eugene O'Kelly, written in the three-and -a-half months between his terminal diagnosis with a brain cancer and his death in September 2005. Interweaving details of his illness with reflections on life, death and success, this passiona…

Author: O'Kelly, Eugene; Postman, Andrew

Place of Publication: New York, NY

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Publication Date: 2008

Physical Description: 201 p. ; 22 cm.

Subjects: Death - psychology; Terminally Ill - psychology; Brain Neoplasms; Emotional Adjustment; Life Change Events; Quality of Life; Attitude to Death; Personal Narratives; Biography; Popular Work

Abstract: Chasing daylight is the inspirational memoir of former KPMG CEO Eugene O'Kelly, written in the three-and -a-half months between his terminal diagnosis with a brain cancer and his death in September 2005. Interweaving details of his illness with reflections on life, death and success, this passionate, deeply insightful book provides an unforgettable account of O'Kelly's final journey, and is a compelling reminder of the importance of living a balanced and meaningful life.

ISBN: 9780071499934; 0071499938

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library

Call Number: BF789 D4 O41 2008

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Climb back from cancer : a survivor and caregiver's inspirational journey

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Hobson, Alan, Hobson, Cecilia. Canmore, AB: Climb Back, Inc. , 2004.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: WH250 H684c 2004

Availability: 2 copies, 2 available

Author: Hobson, Alan; Hobson, Cecilia

Place of Publication: Canmore, AB

Publisher: Climb Back, Inc.

Publication Date: 2004

Physical Description: xxxii, 337 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subjects: Leukemia; Patients; Caregivers; Adaptation, Psychological; Bone Marrow Transplantation; Survivors; Biography; Personal Narratives

ISBN: 0968526314

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library; Victoria Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number: WH250 H684c 2004

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Colonizing bodies : aboriginal health and healing in British Columbia, 1900-50

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Kelm, Mary-Ellen. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press , 1998.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: WA300 K29c 1998

Availability: 2 copies, 2 available

Alternate Title: Colonizing bodies

Author: Kelm, Mary-Ellen

Place of Publication: Vancouver, BC

Publisher: UBC Press

Publication Date: 1998

Physical Description: xxiii, 248 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Subjects: Minority Health - history; Health Disparity, Minority and Vulnerable Populations; Indigenous Canadians - history; Social Welfare - history; Attitude of Health Personnel; First Nations; History, 20th Century; British Columbia; Canada

ISBN: 9780774806787; 0774806788

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library; Victoria Library

Call Number: WA300 K29c 1998

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Curing cancer : the story of the men and women unlocking the secrets of our deadliest illness

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Waldholz, Michael. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster , 1997.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: QZ11 W164 1997

Availability: 1 copy, 1 available

Author: Waldholz, Michael

Place of Publication: New York, NY

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Publication Date: 1997

Subjects: Oncogenes - history; Neoplasms - genetics - history; Genetic Research - history; Genetic Predisposition to Disease

ISBN: 068484823

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number: QZ11 W164 1997

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Death of cancer : after fifty years on the front lines of medicine, a pioneering oncologist reveals why the war on cancer is winnable--and how we can get there

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DeVita, Vincent T. Jr., DeVita-Raeburn, Elizabeth. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2015.

Audience: Patient or Public

Call Number: QZ11.1 D496 2015

Availability: 4 copies, 4 available

Author: DeVita, Vincent T. Jr.; DeVita-Raeburn, Elizabeth

Place of Publication: New York, NY

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Publication Date: 2015

Physical Description: 324 p., [16] p. of plates ; 24 cm.

Subjects: Neoplasms - history; Neoplasms - drug therapy; Medical Oncology - history; Biomedical Research; Antineoplastic Agents - history; History of Medicine; United States; Autobiography

Notes: Table of Contents:; Introduction; Outrageous fortune; The chemotherapists; MOMP; MOPP; The war on cancer; Boots on the ground; Cleaning house at the National Cancer Institute; Frances Kelsey syndrome; Where rubber meets the road; The death of cancer; Outrageous fortune part II.

ISBN: 9780374135607

Language: English

Material Type: Book

Audience: Patient or Public

Location: Vancouver Library; Abbotsford Cancer Info Ctr; Victoria Cancer Info Ctr; Kelowna Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number: QZ11.1 D496 2015

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