cancer in women

A memoir from journalist Mary Elizabeth Williams, who, after being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer, underwent controversial treatments to amaze the medical community.

Jake and Leslie, married for twenty-five years, find themselves tested by forces beyond their control when she learns she has breast cancer and embarks on an aggressive regime of treatment, and he faces the loss of his job.

Describes risk factors, symptoms, diagnostic tests, and treatments for women's cancers including breast, cervical, endometrial, ovarian, and others, and also provides information on clinical trials, coping strategies, and the Family and Medical Leave Act, and a list of additional resources.

Karen Sommerfield returns to her grandmother's farm in order to sort out the problems of a troubled marriage, recent miscarriage, cancer, and the loss of her job and discovers answers through family, the quietness and beauty of the Missouri Ozarks, and a lonely child in need of love.

Claire Woods has always admired her mother Teresa's determination, strength, and compassion, and is devastated by Teresa's sudden death, as is Claire's brother Joshua, and as the two struggle to deal with their own grief, they must find a way to keep their mother's memory alive.

When radio show host Teresa Rae Wood dies, her common-law husband and children, struggling to keep her memory alive, become isolated in grief just when they need one another the most.

When English professor Vivian Bearing is diagnosed with terminal cancer, she is forced to reevaluate her life.

Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English, comes to reassess her life and her work after she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.