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Season 4, Episode 5: Can You Make Hair for Me?

Cancer Out Loud: The CancerCare Podcast

Eileen was diagnosed with lymphoma in 2018. Eileen experienced the loss of identity and sense of self. Listen in as we take a deep dive into how the act of creating can provide a necessary outlet for processing and understanding the cancer experience.

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Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness as a Soul Journey

This is a book for any person who is living with a life-threatening illness and for anyone who is caring for and/or loves a person who is ill. Bolen affirms that the price of going into the scary places, of feeling like a piece of green meat on a hook, is high, but worth it. We have no choice.

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Jean Shinoda Bolen
2007
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Advice on Dire Diagnoses From a Survivor

With each diagnosis, knowing her life hung in the balance, she was “stunned, then anguished” and astonished by “how much energy it takes to get from the bad news to actually starting on the return path to health.”

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Jane E. Brody
2007
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Olympic Swimmer Nathan Adrian on Testicular Cancer Diagnosis: I ‘Felt Betrayed by My Own Body’

For the first time in forever, Nathan Adrian truly has no idea if he’ll have a strong swim Friday. And at this point, it doesn’t really matter to the five-time Olympic gold medalist. He’s simply elated to be back.

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Michelle R. Martinelli
2019
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I Was Betrayed by My Body

‘Skin cancer worked its way into my lymph nodes. I was devastated.’

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Tamara O’Brien
2018
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The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery

In this vulnerable, insightful memoir, the New York Times columnist tells the story of his five-year struggle with a disease that officially doesn’t exist, exploring the limits of modern medicine, the stories that we unexpectedly fall into, and the secrets that only suffering reveals.

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Ross Douthat
2021
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Living Beyond Limits: New Hope and Help for Facing Life-Threatening Illness

A pioneer in the world of mind-body healing, the author provides support and guidance for those living with life-threatening illness, showing how, with the help of support groups, people can live longer and fuller lives.

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David Spiegel
1993
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Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home: A Memoir

When longtime Zen practitioner and world-renowned writing teacher Natalie Goldberg learns that she has a life-threatening illness, she is plunged into the challenging realm of hospitals, physicians, unfamiliar medical treatments, and the intense reality of her own impermanence.

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Natalie Goldberg
2018
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The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell that Changed the Course of Medicine

Hailed as a “riveting,” “stunning,” and “visionary,” The Angel and the Assassin offers us a radically reconceived picture of human health and promises to change everything we thought we knew about how to heal ourselves.

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2025
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The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness

Why do some people find and sustain hope during difficult circumstances, while others do not? What can we learn from those who do, and how is their example applicable to our own lives? The Anatomy of Hope is a journey of inspiring discovery, spanning some thirty years of Dr.

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Jerome Groopman
2005
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Dr. Oliver Sacks on Coping with Brain Injury and Illness

John Hockenberry - three-time Peabody Award winner, four-time Emmy winner, and host of NPR's The Takeaway - interviews Dr. Oliver Sacks, the best-selling author and professor of neurology at NYU School of Medicine, about the ability of the human brain to cope with injury and illness.

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Oliver Sacks
2014
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