Books about cancer by patients, survivors, caregivers and the physicians who treat them. Some are a single family's story. Others walk through diagnosis, treatment choices and life afterward.
This list holds 16 books published between 2017 and 2024, 1 with an audiobook edition. A book is on it only when cancer is a central subject of the book, judged from the book's own description, not when it comes up in passing. The most-rated on Amazon come first.
Andrea Wilson Woods · 2019
Raw and honest story of great courage and unconditional loveAdrienne Wilson is a depressed, suicidal teenager, until the day she receives a diagnosis of stage IV liver cancer. Facing the fight of her life, Adrienne discovers just how much she wants to live.…
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Logan Sneed · 2019
What if the worst thing that’s ever happened to you was actually the greatest blessing you’ve ever received? When Logan Sneed was diagnosed with stage-4 brain cancer, he used a diagnosis that’s usually a death sentence as a springboard for the life of his…
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Stories of Loss, Grief, and Moving Forward
John Sardella · 2020
After twenty-seven years of marriage, John Sardella lost the love of his life when his wife, Margaret, passed away following a seven-year battle with cancer. John looked for a book that would give him space for his pain and inspire him to move forward, but…
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Healing Cancer through Mind, Body and Spirit
Diva Nagula · 2019
When you’re first diagnosed with cancer, or you have a loved one who is, you can’t help but feel lost and afraid. Your waking hours are met with confusion, anxiety, and a slew of questions for which you can’t find a suitable answer. You have qualified doctors…
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The Journey from Diagnosis to Empowerment
Paul Anderson · 2020
Devastating. There’s no other word to describe the feeling when you or someone you love is diagnosed with cancer. On any given day, you might rotate between feelings of disbelief, anger, and grief. You may even feel like you’ve lost control over your own…
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Use Your Pain to Fuel Your Purpose
Eric Newman · 2021
Pain and passion, they reside within all of us. But if you’ve endured a life-changing experience, you know that residual pain can make it hard to heal old wounds. What if you could give your pain a purpose? What if you could turn it into passion? For…
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How to Fight Cancer Without Losing Your Mind
Melanie Holscher · 2020
What happens when a leadership coach ends up fighting for her life? When business performance coach Melanie Holscher learned she had stage 4 ovarian cancer, it sounded more like a sentence than a diagnosis. And fighting the disease demanded more than she…
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Amy Byer Shainman · Audiobook
Resurrection Lily shares a story of inheritance and intuition, of what can surface in the body and the spirit when linked by DNA.As Amy Byer Shainman discovers she has inherited a BRCA gene mutation that puts her at high risk of developing certain cancers…
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Lessons in Humility and Greatness
Veronica Villanueva · 2020
“Sweetie, you have cancer.” That’s what doctors told Veronica Villanueva after she drove to the hospital at 4 a.m. and practically crawled into the ER, unable to breathe. Then came the next bombshell, her disease was incurable. And yet, three years later…
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Marco Martinez
Marco Martinez was the kind of guy who made other people stand back and go, "Whoa." A determined businessman, sports nut, and doting husband and father, he worked hard, played hard, and broke boundaries until cancer reared its ugly head. Diagnosed with stage…
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Jacqueline Acho · 2024
THIS BOOK IS MANY THINGS AT ONCE. It is a guide to: avoiding cancer; managing side effects and thriving during cancer treatment; complementary treatments that can supplement and make traditional Western treatments more effective; staying sane, alive, and…
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Kimberly Irvine
Adversity can strike in ways you never see coming: a life-threatening illness, a sudden divorce, the loss of a loved one. Setbacks like these not only knock your life off track, but leave you feeling overwhelmed and fearful of what tomorrow will bring.…
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Stacy Middleman · 2017
Stacy Middleman felt lucky. She had two great kids about to go to college, a hilarious husband and a future they were planning with excitement. Then, at forty-three, she was faced with the greatest challenge of her life: a second diagnosis of breast cancer.…
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Annah Taylor Phinny · 2023
Will you answer the Call? When the psychic pain of an old soul is ready to be released, that pain may cry out to us through trauma or dis-ease, begging to be healed, loved, and liberated. But at the age of thirty-six, diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer…
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Elaine Brewster · 2022
What if God gave you a choice? What if He said, “I can heal your soul. When we are done, you will stand before me, open and loving, clean and perfect, ready to claim your place in the Kingdom of Heaven. But getting there will be the hardest thing I have ever…
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His Cancer, Our Faith & God’s Love
Jackie Eubanks · 2021
Even as you walk through your lowest valley, you are not alone. This is the message of My Cody: His Cancer, Our Faith & God’s Love. Jackie and Cody had only been married a year when they got the diagnosis. Their businesses were looking up. They were trying…
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