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Books
The books listed here are all recommended by IBC list members. If you buy them from Amazon through the links below, it will benefit the IBC community by helping offset the costs of maintaining this site.Information
- Susan
Love's Breast Book - the classic guide to breast care, now in
its third revision with a completely rewritten section on inflammatory
breast cancer.
- The
Complete Idiot's Guide to Living With Breast Cancer - very easy
to read, and packed with useful information on dealing with breast cancer
and all the issues that go with it.
- Advanced
Breast Cancer - information, and stories of women who are dealing
with metastatic breast cancer. Many of the same issues apply to IBC.
- Intuitive
Biostatistics - how to read and understand medical papers. Pretty
advanced, but well worth reading if you need to know what confidence
intervals and p-values are.
- Her-2:
The Making of Herceptin, a Revolutionary Treatment for Breast Cancer
- Well worth reading if you are considering (or taking) Herceptin.
- Living
Beyond Breast Cancer - tons of practical advice and inspiration.
- Just get me through this - a fun and immensely useful guide to getting through treatment.
Inspiration
- Chicken
Soup for the Surviving Soul - yes, of course you need this book!
- Thanks
for the Mammogram! : Fighting Cancer With Faith, Hope, and a Healthy
Dose of Laughter - treats the subject with humour, but also
enormous sensitivity.
- Love,
Medicine and Miracles - the classic book by Bernie Siegel. Very
inspirational. Be warned that some people find his attitudes offensive,
in particular, his implication that people bring cancer on themselves
through negative thinking.
- Cancer
as a Turning Point - encourages you to treat cancer as an opportunity
to put things right in your life that you've been putting off.
- Grace
and Grit - the best book for caregivers available. The personal
journey of the writer and his wife who died of breast cancer; a very
honest, compassionate account. This is one of five books I'd take to
a desert island.
- Healing
Lessons - a doctor's account of his wife's stomach cancer, and
how it changed his attitude.
- Kitchen
Table Wisdom : Stories That Heal - real-life inspirational
parables.
- Close
to the Bone : Life-Threatening Illness and the Search for Meaning
- An exploration of the psychological and spiritual value of death,
loss, and illness.
- There's
No Place Like Hope : A Guide to Beating Cancer in Mind-Sized Bites
- "Fear doesn’t defeat cancer. Empowered treatment defeats
cancer".