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"While Glaciers Slept weaves together the parallel stories of what happens when the climates of family and planet change. Jackson, a National Geographic Expert, reveals how these events are deeply similar and intertwined. She tells the story of her parents' struggles with cancer while describing in detail the planetary changes she's witnessed. Above all else, Jackson shows that even in the darkest of times there is clear reason for hope and light....
86) Unstoppable
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Upon going to the doctor for a routine knee injury, foster child and aspiring NFL athlete Harrison learns that he has bone cancer.
87) Wit
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English professor Vivian Bearing reflects on life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
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In 2016, Rob Delaney's one-year-old son, Henry, was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The family had moved from Los Angeles to London with their two young boys when Rob's wife was pregnant with Henry, their third. The move was an adventure that would bind them even more tightly together as they navigated the novelty of London, the culture clashes, and the funhouse experience of Rob's fame--thanks to his role as co-creator and co-star of the hit series...
89) 50/50
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Inspired by personal experiences, an original story about friendship, love, survival, and finding humor in unlikely places. Two best friends' lives change when one of them is diagnosed with cancer.
94) Daisy Winters
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Precocious eleven-year-old Daisy has a deeply loving but unconventional relationship with her mother. When that bond is harshly broken Daisy begins a journey learning how to embrace life in courageous, resourceful ways. Life moves in mysterious ways.
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The Mindset Cure is the story of Andrea's journey from healthy and vital, engaged, always on wife, mother, volunteer and successful corporate executive to suddenly becoming a patient for most of 21 weeks during 2011 at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona. It tells of the always-on, driven lifestyle that drained her physically, mentally and spiritually and set her up for her bout with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) and her terrifying and difficult journey,...
96) The good breast
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"Through the intimate stories of four breast cancer patients and their surgeons, The Good Breast explores the cultural and emotional roots of the loss of the breast. Unprecedented OR footage presents medicine as a ritual, and the mastectomy as a modern form of breast sacrifice."--IMDb.
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Incapacitated after the removal of a malignant tumor, the narrator, António, spends his days in a Lisbon hospital enduring the humiliations of severe illness. As he drifts in and out of consciousness, he revisits fragments of his life and the people who passed through it. He recalls the village where he lived as a child near the Mondego River amid the eucalyptus and pines, his parents and grandparents and their tight-knit community of potato farmers...
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"Ted Fullilove, aka Mr. Peanut, is not like other Ivy League grads. He shares an apartment with Goldberg, his beloved battery-operated fish, sleeps on a bed littered with yellow legal pads penned with what he hopes will be the next great American novel, and spends the waning malaise-filled days of the Carter administration at Yankee Stadium, waxing poetic while slinging peanuts to pay the rent. When Ted hears the news that his estranged father, Marty,...
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"A Comprehensive Guide for Patients and Practitioners. Although evidence supporting the benefits of ketogenic diet therapies continues to mount, there is little to guide those who wish to adopt this diet as a metabolic therapy for cancer. Keto for Cancerfills this need. Inspired by the work of Dr. Thomas N. Seyfried, PhD, nutritionist Miriam Kalamian has written the first book to lay out comprehensive guidelines that specifically address the many...
100) Sister's choice
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Jamie Dunkirk agrees to be a surrogate for her sister Kendra and her husband, and when she moves to their riverside property, a new relationship with Cash Rosslyn has a profound impact as she struggles with her pregnancy and a cancer diagnosis.
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