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the following books and videos for loan to members of our community. Browse by subject
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Subjects

AFTER CANCER
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
BEAUTY
BREAST HEALTH
CARE-GIVING
CHILDREN AND PARENTS
COPING
CANCER TYPE
FITNESS
HUMOR
LIVING WITH CANCER
MEDICAL, GENERAL
NUTRITION
PAIN
PREVENTION
PROSTATE
SEXUALITY
SPIRITUALITY
SURGERY
TEEN
TREATMENT FOR CANCER
REFERENCE

AFTER CANCER

• After cancer
• What every woman needs to know about menopause
• Cancervive
• Getting well again
• Cancer as a turning point

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ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

• Alternative medicine - what works
• Dictionary of alternative medicine

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BEAUTY

• Beauty and cancer
• Beautiful again

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BREAST HEALTH

• What women want to know about breast implants
• A woman's decision
• The race is run one step at a time
• Cancer in two voices
• Breakthrough: the race to find the cancer gene
• Tamoxifen and breast cancer
• You don't have to be your mother
• Breast cancer: ask the doctor
• Breast cancer: the complete guide
• No less a woman
• Finding a lump in your breast
• Your breast cancer treatment book
• The breast cancer companion
• Be a survivor
• Time flies when you're alive
• Dr. Susan Love's breast book
• Breast cancer? Let me check my schedule
• If you find a lump in your breast
• Breast cancer: twenty women
• Breast cancer: a family survival guide
• Conversations with my healers
• Breast cancer treatment survival handbook
  The breast sourcebook
• To dance with the devil
• Living beyond breast cancer
• Stealing the dragon's fire
• Breast cancer journal
• Breast self exam
• A significant journey
• On living with metastatic breast cancer
• Genetic testing for breast cancer
• For women's lives
• Get up and go after breast surgery
• Self care for post-masectomy lymphedema
• Lymphedema management
• Upper extremity bandaging
• When breast cancer comes back
• Dilemmas in breast cancer
• Breast self-exam
• Surviving mastectomy
• Breast lumps
• Breast cancer: what every family should know
• Assessing your risk for breast cancer

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CARE-GIVING

• When life becomes precious
• I'm here to help

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CHILDREN AND PARENTS

• Alex's journey
• You and leukemia
• Moms don't get sick
• Children mourning, mourning children
• Don't look back
• Afraid to ask
• Surviving childhood cancer
• When a parent has cancer
• Your child in the hospital
• Childhood leukemia
• My journey of hope
• The cure of childhood lukemia
• My mommy has cancer
• Some things change,some things stay the same
• You're only old once
• When Eric's mom fought cancer
• Taking control
• Why, Charlie Brown, why?
• Kids tell kids what it's like
• Children mourning, mourning children

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COPING

• Coping with chemotherapy
• I'm a patient too
• Fine black lines
• Coping with radiation therapy
• I can cope
• Seeing the crab, a memoir of dying before I do
• Menopause the silent passage
• New passages
• Oncology social work
• Coping with workplace issues
• The cancer experience who you are not
• I can cope
• Winners: a guide to coping with cancer
• Cancer experience: who are you now?
• Significant journey

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CANCER TYPE

• A primer of brain tumors
• AJCC cancer staging manual
• A cancer source book for nurses
• The people's cancer guide book
• Living with lung cancer
• Cancer survivor's almanac
• Colon cancer
• Colorectal CA and genetic implications
• Family issues
• Hereditary cancer
• Breast cancer genetics
• Saving your skin: the subtle signs of cancer
• Skin care and sun exposure: Malignant melanoma
• Lung disorders: PT 4 cancer
• Colon cancer
• Pancreatic cancer
• Breast cancer: what every family should know
• Assessing your risk for breast cancer

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FITNESS

• Young at heart
• One move at a time
• Better than before

HUMOR

• Not now - I'm having a no-hair day
• No more bad hair days

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LIVING WITH CANCER

• 50 essential things to do if you have cancer
• Conversations about cancer
• What you really need to know about cancer
• The cancer book
• Everyone's guide to cancer therapy
• Cancer lives at our house
• The diagnosis is cancer
• Choices
• Informed decisions
• Symptom control in advanced cancer
• You've just been told you have cancer
• The activist cancer patient
• Step by step dealing with cancer
• Cancer what you must know
• When someone you love has prostate cancer
• Living with ovarian cancer
• What I wish I knew
• You've just been told you have cancer
• Insight to inner strength

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MEDICAL, GENERAL

• Cancer consultations
• AMA encyclopedia of medicine
• Family medical guide
• Diseases, everything you need to know
• Cancer and genetics
• Mayo Clinic family health book
• Medical texts
• PDR family guide to prescription drugs
• Patient's guide to medical tests
• Convergence of science, medicine and engineering
• Take joy how body systems work together
• Intricate cell
• On the edge of being

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NUTRITION

• Nutrition, cancer and you
• What to eat when you don't feel like eating
• What to eat if you have cancer
• Cancer recovery book
• Cancer survivor's nutrition and health guide
• Cancer survival cookbook
• Eating smart
• Taking charge nutrition for cancer patients
• Nutrition and cancer
• Fight back with nutrition

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PAIN

• Pain relief
• You don't have to suffer
• Helping to control cancer pain

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PREVENTION

• Cancer free
• Smart move
• Nowhere to hide
• Cancer no one talks about
• Straight talk about mammography
• Taking control of your health
• Report on skin cancer
• Winners in the sun
• Take the time (PAP test)
• Mammography woman to woman
• Breast self-examination

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PROSTATE

• Prostate cancer
• Prostate cancer treatment
• Prostate cancer, a family consultation
• Prostate cancer, a multidisciplinary guide
• An atlas of prostate disease
• Prostate disease
• Prostate and cancer
• My prostate and me
• Prostate cancer a guide for women
• The prostate, a guide for men and women
• You can beat prostate cancer

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SEXUALITY

• Sexuality and fertility
• Cancer, its affect on self image

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SPIRITUALITY

• House calls
• The last thing we talk about
• Final gifts
• Chicken soup for the soul
• Chicken soup for the mother's soul
• Chicken soup for the surviving soul
• Chicken soup for the woman's soul
• Don't sweat the small stuff with your family
• Don't sweat the small stuff and it's all small stuff
• Good grief rituals
• Living with the end in mind
• To live until we say goodbye
• Helping people through grief
• Don't take my grief away
• Kitchen table wisdom
• First you cry
• Last wish
• Love, medicine and healing
• Peace, love and healing
• Facing death
• Still me

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SURGERY

• Treatment options in cancer surgery
• Recovering from breast surgery
• Surgery book

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TEEN

• Will I get breast cancer?
• Definitely A 15
• BSE for teens
• Testicular self exam
• Check it out (smokeless tobacco)

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TREATMENT FOR CANCER

• Making the radiation decision
• Managing the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation
• Making the chemotherapy decision
• Estrogen replacement therapy
• Longterm tamoxifen treatment for breast cancer
• Choices in healing
• Chemotherapy survival guide
• Clinical nursing skills
• Bone marrow transplants
• Everything you want to know about medical transplants
• The cancer experience living with treatment
• Chemotherapy
• Radiation therapy
• Q-Port vascular access system
• Subcutaneous injections
• Per-Q-Cath IV therapy
• Different people different choices
• Treatment of early breast cancer
• Radiation center overview
• Radiation oncology
• Progress for life
• Conservation surgery and radiation

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REFERENCE

• Fluoroscopy and radiography of the gastrointestinal tract
• Atlas of normal roetgen variants
• Atlas of human anatomy
• Physicians' desk reference

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Titles

• The Activist cancer patient
• Afraid to ask
• After cancer
• AJCC cancer staging manual
• Alex's journey
• Alternative medicine - what works
• AMA encyclopedia of medicine
• Assessing your risk for breast cancer
• Atlas of human anatomy
• Atlas of normal roetgen variants
• An Atlas of prostate disease

Back

• Be a survivor
• Beautiful again
• Beauty and cancer
• Better than before
• Bone marrow transplants
• Breakthrough: the race to find the cancer gene
• Breast cancer companion
• Breast cancer genetics
• Breast cancer journal
• Breast cancer treatment survival handbook
• Breast cancer: a family survival guide
• Breast cancer: ask the doctor
• Breast cancer: the complete guide
• Breast cancer: twenty women
• Breast cancer: what every family should know
• Breast cancer? Let me check my schedule
• Breast lumps
• Breast self-exam
• Breast self-examination
• Breast sourcebook
• BSE for teens

Back

• Cancer what you must know
• Cancer and genetics
• Cancer as a turning point
• The Cancer book
• Cancer consultations
• The Cancer experience: living with treatment
• The Cancer experience: who you are not
• Cancer experience: who are you now?
  Cancer free
• Cancer in two voices
• Cancer, its affect on self image
• Cancer lives at our house
• Cancer no one talks about
• Cancer recovery book
• A Cancer source book for nurses
• Cancer survival cookbook
• Cancer survivor's almanac
• Cancer survivor's nutrition and health guide
• Cancer what you must know
• Cancervive
  Check it out (smokeless tobacco)
• Chemotherapy
• Chemotherapy survival guide
• Chicken soup for the mother's soul
• Chicken soup for the soul
• Chicken soup for the surviving soul
• Chicken soup for the woman's soul
• Childhood leukemia
• Children mourning, mourning children
• Choices
• Choices in healing
• Clinical nursing skills
• Colon cancer
• Colon cancer
• Colorectal CA and genetic implications
• Conservation surgery and radiation
• Convergence of science, medicine and engineering
• Conversations about cancer
• Conversations with my healers
• Coping with chemotherapy
• Coping with radiation therapy
• Coping with workplace issues
• The Cure of childhood lukemia

Back

• Definitely A 15
• The Diagnosis is cancer
• Dictionary of alternative medicine
• Different people different choices
• Dilemmas in breast cancer
• Diseases, everything you need to know
• Don't look back
• Don't sweat the small stuff and it's all small stuff
• Don't sweat the small stuff with your family
• Don't take my grief away
• Dr. Susan Love's breast book
• Eating smart
• Estrogen replacement therapy
• Everyone's guide to cancer therapy
• Everything you want to know about medical transplants
• Facing death
• Family issues
• Family medical guide
• 50 essential things to do if you have cancer
• Fight back with nutrition
• Final gifts
• Finding a lump in your breast
• Fine black lines
• First you cry
• Fluoroscopy and radiography of the gastrointestinal tract
• For women's lives

Back

• Genetic testing for breast cancer
• Get up and go after breast surgery
• Getting well again
• Good grief rituals
• Helping people through grief
• Helping to control cancer pain
• Hereditary cancer
• House calls
• I can cope
• If you find a lump in your breast
• I'm a patient too
• I'm here to help
• Informed decisions
• Insight to inner strength
• Intricate cell
• Kids tell kids what it's like
• Kitchen table wisdom

Back

• The Last thing we talk about
• Last wish
• Living beyond breast cancer
• Living with lung cancer
• Living with ovarian cancer
• Living with the end in mind
• Longterm tamoxifen treatment for breast cancer
• Love, medicine and healing
• Lung disorders: PT 4 cancer
• Lymphedema management
• Making the chemotherapy decision
• Making the radiation decision
• Mammography woman to woman
• Managing the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation
• Mayo Clinic family health book
• Medical texts
• Menopause the silent passage
• Moms don't get sick
• My journey of hope
• My mommy has cancer
• My prostate and me
• New passages
• No less a woman
• No more bad hair days
• Not now - I'm having a no-hair day
• Nowhere to hide
• Nutrition and cancer
• Nutrition, cancer and you
• On living with metastatic breast cancer
• On the edge of being
• Oncology social work
• One move at a time

Back

• Pain relief
• Pancreatic cancer
• Patient's guide to medical tests
• PDR family guide to prescription drugs
• Peace, love and healing
• The People's cancer guide book
• Per-Q-Cath IV therapy
• Physicians' desk reference
• A Primer of brain tumors
• Progress for life
• The Prostate, a guide for men and women
• Prostate and cancer
• Prostate cancer
• Prostate cancer a guide for women
• Prostate cancer treatment
• Prostate cancer, a family consultation
• Prostate cancer, a multidisciplinary guide
• Prostate disease
• Q-Port vascular access system
• The Race is run one step at a time
• Radiation center overview
• Radiation oncology
• Radiation therapy
• Recovering from breast surgery
• Report on skin cancer
• Saving your skin: the subtle signs of cancer
• Seeing the crab, a memoir of dying before I do
• Self care for post-masectomy lymphedema
• Sexuality and fertility
• A Significant journey
• Skin care and sun exposure: Malignant melanoma
• Smart move
• Some things change,some things stay the same
• Stealing the dragon's fire
• Step by step dealing with cancer
• Still me
• Straight talk about mammography
• Subcutaneous injections
• Surgery book
• Surviving childhood cancer
• Surviving mastectomy
• Symptom control in advanced cancer

Back

• Take joy how body systems work together
• Take the time (PAP test)
• Taking charge: nutrition for cancer patients
• Taking control
• Taking control of your health
• Tamoxifen and breast cancer
• Testicular self exam
• Time flies when you're alive
• To dance with the devil
• To live until we say goodbye
• Treatment of early breast cancer
• Treatment options in cancer surgery
• Upper extremity bandaging
• What every woman needs to know about menopause
• What I wish I knew
• What to eat if you have cancer
• What to eat when you don't feel like eating
• What women want to know about breast implants
• What you really need to know about cancer
• When a parent has cancer
• When breast cancer comes back
• When Eric's mom fought cancer
• When life becomes precious
• When someone you loves has prostate cancer
• Why, Charlie Brown, why?
• Will I get breast cancer?
• Winners in the sun
• Winners: a guide to coping with cancer
• A Woman's decision
• You and leukemia
• You can beat prostate cancer
• You don't have to be your mother
• You don't have to suffer
• Young at heart
• Your breast cancer treatment book
• Your child in the hospital
• You're only old once
• You've just been told you have cancer