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Chronicles the life of cyclist Lance Armstrong, describing his battle with cancer and his numerous Tour de France wins.

The author describes her battle against polio when she was thirteen and her efforts to overcome its debilitating effects.

Children who have come to the National Cancer Institute express their hopes and fears in their own art and writing.

Twenty-one-year-old Laura Rothenberg has spent her life knowing each breath might be her last and fighting a losing battle with cystic fibrosis, and she describes how her disease and life were affected by her decision to have a lung transplant.

Offers guidance and advice on social interaction for tweens and teens with Asperger's syndrome.

Seventeen-year-old Stacy awakens from a four-year coma ready to identify, locate, and prosecute the young man who murdered her mother and wounded her.

Recounts Dr. Jerri Nielsen's struggle to survive cancer while in Antarctica.

Alienated at school and troubled by his parents' separation, Kit loses himself in running, until one day an accident on the road catapults him into what seems to be a parallel universe.

Computer science professor Randy Pausch, who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, discusses how to overcome obstacles in one's life and achieve one's dreams.

The true story of Phineas Gage, whose brain had been pierced by an iron rod in 1848, and who survived and became a case study in how the brain functions.