Cancer Take Control

'Me and My Shadow' is a brutally honest account of one teenager's struggle to understand and deal with the most feared diagnosis known to society - cancer. At 18 years of age, John Walker Pattison was thrust onto a roller coaster ride of emotional turbulence - his innocence cruelly stripped from ...

Sarah Standing is a wife, a mother, a journalist, a toy shop owner, a grandmother, a great friend, a daughter, and a lover of life. She does not have the time, or inclination, to deal with cancer. But shit happens. After a week or two of struggling to catch her breath, Sarah pops along to see her...

Mindfulness is the new attitude to living. Being aware of what you eat will not only help you appreciate every mouthful, but reward you and heal your food issues. There's no dieting, calorie-counting or fasting - by changing your approach to feeding yourself, you can tune in to your 'body wisdom'...

1 in 15 men. 1 in 18 women. Every year in the UK 43,000 people are newly diagnosed with bowel cancer. Dr Anisha Patel is one of them. Young, fit, and married to a consultant gastroenterologist and bowel cancer screening specialist, in 2018 she was diagnosed with Stage 3 bowel cancer. Despite bein...

Professor Robert Thomas, one of Britain's leading oncologists and an expert in integrating nutritional and lifestyle strategies into cancer treatment, gives us the facts about everything from diet and exercise to sleep and sunbathing. His book doesn't just offer advice, it outlines in detail the ...

Subject: Mr. Coyle describes the journey his wife had with bone cancer; and his journey with Stage IV Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Stage IV Melanoma and Immunotherapy, and Bladder cancer.

'Mindfulness: A Kindly Approach to Being with Cancer' offers people with cancer a means to bring mindfulness and kindliness into their lives, to help them cope with the challenge of a life-threatening illness.

This title explains how to practise mindfulness, using step-by-step exercises to help you understand key techniques such as breathing, relaxation, body scanning and concentration building. It also includes chapters on using mindfulness to self-treat such specific problems as depression, stress an...

When authors Fran Warde and Catherine Zabilowicz met at the Maggie's Centre at Charing Cross Hospital in London, they quickly discovered they shared a passion for good food and healthy eating. They also realised that with their combined knowledge and experience - Fran as an acclaimed food writer,...

By the age of 11, Taylor Wilson had mastered the science of rocket propulsion. At 13, his grandmother's cancer diagnosis drove him to investigate medical uses for radioactive isotopes. And at 14, Wilson became the youngest person in history to achieve nuclear fusion. How could someone so young ac...