Cancer Take Control

Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, an academic GP, and Dr Liz O'Riordan, a Consultant Breast Cancer Surgeon, are not only outstanding doctors, but they have also experienced breast cancer first-hand. This book brings together all the knowledge they have gathered as patients and as doctors to give you a...

Katz provides spouses and partners of men with prostate cancer with a comprehensive but reader friendly overview of what they need to know to support the man they love as he goes through the cancer journey. From diagnosis to death, the book deals sensitively with multiple topics to help spouses/p...

Straightforward, positive and practical answers to all your questions about breast cancer. The book tackles the questions you may feel uneasy asking your doctor.

This book aims to help women of all ages find out more about testing for cervical cancer, understanding how important it is to go for regular check-ups and overcoming the physical and emotional challenges cervical cancer can bring.

When Annmarie James-Thomas was diagnosed with a stage IIb tumour, she was determined she would not lose her love of life. Having watched her father succumb to bowel cancer a year earlier, she had no desire to follow the same treatment regime. So she went in search of something different. Refusing...

On 29 January 2008 Philip Gould was told he had cancer. He was stoical, and set about his treatment, determined to fight his illness. This book describes the journey Philip took with his illness, leaving to us what he called his lessons from the Death Zone. On 29 January 2008 Philip Gould was tol...

All of us have lurking in our DNA a most remarkable gene. Its job is straightforward - to protect us from cancer. This gene - known simply as p53 - constantly scans our cells to ensure that they grow and divide without mishap, as part of the routine maintenance of our bodies. If a cell makes a mi...

Whether we like it or not, cancer will soon be a part of everyone's life - whether they are affected personally or know someone who is. While medical treatment can cure or prolong the lives of many, we still don't have all the answers. People are desperate for more information and spend hours sea...

At the age of 60, Cory Taylor was dying of melanoma-related brain cancer. With her illness no longer treatable, she began at the start of 2016 to write about her experiences and, in an extraordinary creative surge, wrote what would become 'Dying'. This is a brief and clear-eyed account of what dy...

'I'm Rose. John and I shared nearly eight years of our lives together. This is our story: a story of how two ordinary people live with the diagnosis, the check-ups, the disappointments, the relief, the questions, the answers, the operations, the recovery, the emergencies, the denial, the acceptan...