hodgkin's disease

When Luke, the high school's star football player, cannot shake the flu, his girlfriend Julie persuades him to see a doctor and they learn that his illness is serious.

A girl falls in love with a high school football player with Hodgkin's lymphoma.

A seventeen-year-old orphan with Hodgkin's disease becomes very involved with her new hospital roommate, a nineyear-old girl who insists that the man who killed her father is trying to kill her.

Baseball player Henry Wiggen relates how he throws a baseball for the sake of his pocket, his family, his teammates, and a dying friend.

Psychiatry professor Kay Redfield Jamison shares the story of her relationship with her husband, scientist Richard Wyatt, and discusses what it was like to lose him to cancer and her struggles with grief following his death.

After three years of radiation and chemotherapy, Shannon is overjoyed that her doctor has declared her to be in remission. But when her new doctor tells her she needs more chemo, Shannon decides to take her life back into her own hands, and goes, by herself, to New Orleans to see Sister Euphrasia, in the hopes of being healed.

The author discusses her son's battle against Hodgkin's disease, first diagnosed when he was ten years old.

This book discusses Hodgkin's disease, a type of lymphoma, presenting information on its five subtypes, the diagnostic testing for Hodgkin's disease and the stage to which the disease has progressed, and the treatment programs, both conventional and alternative.

When Luke, the high school's star football player, can't shake the flu, his girlfriend Julie persuades him to see a doctor and they learn that his illness is serious.