cancer

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cancer

Sweet victory

Lance Armstrong's incredible journey
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Promise me, Dad

a year of hope, hardship, and purpose
2017
"The former vice-president of the United States chronicles the difficult final year of his son's battle with cancer, his efforts to balance his responsibilities to the country and his family, and the lessons he learned"--OCLC.

It's always something

2009
A biography of the comedienne describing her career, her time as part of the original cast of "Saturday Night Live," and her battle with cancer.

When friendship followed me home

2017
Seventh-grader Ben, always an outsider, is led into a deep friendship with Halley, who is being treated for cancer, by the special dog he and his adoptive mother take in.

Cancervive

the challenge of life after cancer
1991
Introduces Cancervive, a support group founded by the author for those who have survived cancer.

All the ways the world can end

2017
Lenny, sixteen, struggles to cope with her father's cancer, her best friend moving across the country, and more but in a sea of uncertainty, dreams of romance may become her anchor.

Looking for group

2017
"[A story] about two misfit teens--one in remission from cancer, one in the throes of discovering her gender identity--who embark on a cross-country road trip"--OCLC.

Bajo la misma estrella

Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.

Positively beautiful

Sixteen-year-old Erin's life is fairly normal until she learns that her mother has breast cancer and she, too, may carry a mutated gene, so amid high school dramas including betrayal by her best friend, she must consider preemptive surgery to guarantee she will not be stricken.

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