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Breast Cancer: A Suggested Reading List

The following books might be useful to breast cancer patients and their families. Most are available at the public library, many are available through local bookstores.

  • A Cancer Story: Path Through the Fire, Wendy Allen Wheeler
  • After Breast Cancer: A Common-Sense Guide to Life After Treatment, Hester Hill Schnipper, LICSW
  • A Spiritual Journey Through Breast Cancer: Strength for Today, Hope for Tomorrow, Judy Asti
  • A Tribe of Warrier Women, Melissa Springer
  • Advanced Breast Cancer: A Guide to Living with Metastatic Disease, Musa Mayer with Linda Lamb
  • Another Morning: Voices of Truth and Hope from Mothers with Cancer, Linda Blachman
  • Breast Cancer Husband: How to Help Your Wife (and Yourself) during Diagnosis, Treatment and Beyond, Marc Silver
  • Breast Cancer Journal: A Century of Petals, Juliet Wittman
  • Breast Cancer? Let Me Check My Schedule!, Peggy McCarthy and Jo An Loren
  • Breast Cancer News: Information For Survivors
  • Cancer in Two Voices, Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum
  • Cancer as a Turning Point, Lawrence LeShan, PhD
  • Close To The Bone: Life Threatening Illness and The Search For Meaning, Jean Shinola Bolen, MD
  • Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book
  • Helping Your Mate Face Breast Cancer, Judy Kneece
  • Hope is Contagious: The Breast Cancer Treatment Survival Handbook, Margit Esser Porter
  • Hope Lives! The after Breast Cancer Survival Handbook, Margit Esser Porter
  • I Still Buy Green Bananas: Living with Hope, Living with Breast Cancer
  • Just Get Me Through This: The Practical Guide to Breast Cancer, Deborah A. Cohen and Robert M. Geldfand, M.D.
  • Living Beyond Breast Cancer: a Survivor's Guide for When Treatment Ends and the Rest of Your Life Begins, Marisa C. Weiss, M.D. and Ellen Weiss
  • Living With the End in Mind, Erin & Douglas Kramp
  • No Less A Woman: Ten women shatter the myths about Breast Cancer, D.H. Kahane
  • Not Just One in Eight: Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors and their Families, Barbara Stevens
  • Recovering From Breast Surgery: Exercises To Strengthen Your Body and Relieve pain, Diana Stumm, PT
  • Songs from a Lead-Lined Room: notes-high and low-from my journey through breast cancer and radiation, Suzanne Strempek Shea
  • Spinning Straw Into Gold: Your Emotional Recovery from Breast Cancer, Ronnie Kaye, MFCC
  • The Breast Cancer Survival Manual-A Step-By-Step Guide for the Woman with Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer, John Link, MD
  • The Human Side of Cancer: Living with Hope, Coping with Uncertainty, Jimmie Holland, MD and Sheldon Lewis
  • Thriving After Breast Cancer: Essential Healing Exercises for Body and Mind, Sherry Lebed Davis, Stephanie Gunning
  • What We Have, What We Share: Stories of Mothers and Daughters Bonding through Breast Cancer, S. Eva Singletary, MD, Alice F. Judkins, RN, MS, and Holly Masturzo, PhD
  • Woman to Woman: A Handbook for Women Newly Diagnosed with Breast Cancer, Hester Hill Schnipper & Joan Berns
  • You Don't Have to Be Your Mother, Gayle Feldman

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