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Author
Publisher
Kachi Geulbang
Pub. Date
2011, ©2010
Language
Korean
Description
Here is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer - from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist's precision, a historian's perspective, and a biographer's passion.
Author
Publisher
Editorial Sirio
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Nuestra comprensión del cáncer está pasando lentamente por una revolución, lo que permite el desarrollo de tratamientos más efectivos. Por primera vez en la historia, la tasa de mortalidad por cáncer muestra una disminución constante, pero la 'Guerra contra el cáncer' apenas se ha ganado. Fung explica qué es el cáncer, cómo se manifiesta y por qué es tan difícil de tratar. Él identifica muchos errores de la comunidad médica en la investigación...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common, except they both have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to make a Bucket List of all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die. In the process of completing the list, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find the joy in life.
Author
Series
Jian kang smile volume 09
Publisher
Shi zi wen hua shi ye you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2011
Language
中文(繁體)
10) Ordinary love
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joan and Tom (Academy Award® nominee Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson) have been married for many years. An everyday couple with a remarkable love, there is an ease to their relationship which only comes from spending a lifetime together. When Joan is diagnosed with breast cancer, the course of her treatment shines a light on their enduring devotion, as they must find the humor and grace to survive a year of adversity. Official Selection at the **Toronto...
Author
Publisher
Nube de Tinta
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
Español
Description
Despite the medical miracle that has bought her a few more years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, but when Augustus Waters suddenly appears at the Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be rewritten.
"A Hazel y a Gus les gustaria tener vidas mas corrientes. Algunos dirian que no han nacido con estrella, que su mundo es injusto. Hazel y Gus son solo adolescentes, pero si algo les ha ensenado el cancer que ambos padecen es...
Author
Publisher
Jie li chu ban she
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life. Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears...
Author
Publisher
URANO
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
El riesgo de sufrir cáncer de mama no depende, como a menudo pensamos, del historial familiar. De hecho, afirma Kristi Funk, cirujana oncológica de fama mundial, el 87 por ciento de las mujeres diagnosticadas carecen de familiares en primer grado que hayan padecido la enfermedad. El mayor factor de riesgo es, sencillamente, el hecho de ser mujer. La buena noticia es que el peligro de enfermar y de recaer se puede reducir siguiendo ciertas pautas....
16) Spoiler alert
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Based on Michael Ausiello's best-selling memoir "Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies," The story of Michael Ausiello and Kit Cowan's relationship, which takes a tragic turn when Cowan is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
19) Zhi jue
Author
Series
Lü du yu cong shu volume YLB13
Publisher
Yuan liu chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2007
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
What is the price for fame and success? What is the price scientists are willing to pay for more grant? Let this research scientist tell the story of how some researchers will stop at nothing to get published. But in the end, truth triumphs relentlessly.
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