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Cancer
Cancer /ˈkænsə(r)/ ( listen) (medical term: malignant neoplasm) is a class of diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth (division beyond the normal limits), invasion (intrusion on and destruction of adjacent tissues), and sometimes metastasis (spread to other locations in the...
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Death Be Not Proud
Death Be Not Proud is a memoir by American author John Gunther, taking its name from Holy Sonnet X by John Donne. The story was portrayed in a 1975 TV movie starring Robby Benson as Johnny Gunther and Arthur Hill as John Gunther.
In the book,...
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- 1949
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Bang the Drum Slowly
Bang the Drum Slowly was Mark Harris's most celebrated baseball novel, a sequel to The Southpaw (1953). It was first published in 1956, and was later made famous by a 1956 U.S. Steel Hour television adaptation starring Paul Newman and a later film...
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- 1956
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Terminal
Terminal is a medical thriller written by Robin Cook. The novel peeps into the boom and curse of biotechnology.
The novel centers around the investigation of a medical student named Sean into a mysterious cancer called medulloblastoma and the secret...
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- 1993
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- 1993
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- 31134
The Cancer Ward
Cancer Ward (Rakovy Korpus,Russian:Раковый Корпус) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in 1967, and banned in the Soviet Union in 1968.
The novel tells the story of a small group of cancer...
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- 1968
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Gain
Gain (ISBN 0-374-15996-3) is a novel by Richard Powers published by in 1998. It intertwines two stories: the first is the history of Clare International, a chemical conglomerate with origins in soap manufacturing in the early 18th century; the...
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Two Weeks with the Queen
Two Weeks With The Queen? (ISBN 0-399-22249-9) is a 1990 novel by an Australian author, Morris Gleitzman, about a 12-year-old Australian boy, Colin Mudford.
Two Weeks with the Queen begins in outback Australia, where we meet the main character,...
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The Lay of the Land
The Lay of the Land is a 2006 novel by American author Richard Ford. The novel is the third in a trilogy, which began with The Sportswriter (1986) and was followed several years later by Independence Day (1995). Each of these novels follows a...
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- Oct 2006
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Get a Life
Get a Life (2005) is an ecological novel by South African writer Nadine Gordimer.
The novel tells the story of environmental activist Paul Bannerman and his family. Paul is diagnosed with thyroid cancer and, after surgery and subsequent radiation...
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- 2005
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Terry
Terry is a pictorial biography of Terry Fox written by Canadian author Douglas Coupland to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Fox's death in 1981.
Written with the support of the Fox family, Terry reflects the minimalist style of Douglas Coupland’s...
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The Cancer Journals
The Cancer Journals is a 1980 book of non-fiction by Audre Lorde. It deals with her struggle with breast cancer.
The book consists of an introduction and three chapters, each featuring passages from her diary.
The first chapter, 'The Transformation...
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- 1980
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Seaview
Seaview is a book by Toby Olson.
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- 1982
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- 1982
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The Unfortunates
The Unfortunates is an experimental "book in a box" written in 1969 by English author B. S. Johnson and reissued in 2008 by New Directions. The 27 chapters are unbound, with a first and last chapter specified. The other 25 sections are designed to...
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- 1969
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The second time around
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Man to Man: Surviving Prostate Cancer
Man to Man: Surviving Prostate Cancer is a book by Michael Korda.
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- 1996
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The stuff of life
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Toning the sweep
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Tell me a riddle
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Grace and grit
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A season in hell
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In Love With Daylight
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The delta function =
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Biology of Cancer
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One Renegade Cell: The Quest for the Origins of Cancer
One Renegade Cell: The Quest for the Origins of Cancer is a book by Robert A. Weinberg.
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- 1998
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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place is a book by Terry Tempest Williams.
Date of first publication:
- 1992
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- 6341
Bone
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Living downstream
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Dear Bruno
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The luckiest unlucky man alive
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First, You Cry
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Last wish
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World without cancer
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The Cancer Conspiracy
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Breaking the silence
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Rollercoaster
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Back on Blossom Street
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What happened to Lani Garver
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Cancer Vixen: A True Story
Cancer Vixen: A True Story is a book by Marisa Acocella Marchetto.
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- 2006
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Twelve Weeks in Spring
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The Goldfish Went on Vacation
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Hidden spring
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