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Nancy Brinker recounts how her bond with her sister Susan was impacted by Susan's battle with breast cancer in 1977 and shares how she was inspired to start the Susan G. Komen foundation to raise money and awareness for breast cancer research.

After the grief of losing her mother to cancer as a teenager, Sarah Gabriel had learned to appreciate "the charms of simple happiness." With a career as a journalist, a home in Oxford, England, a husband, and two young daughters, she was content. But then at age forty-four, she was diagnosed with breast cancer---the result of M18T, an inherited mutation on the BRCA1 gene that had taken the lives of her mother and countless female ancestors. Eating Pomegranates is Gabriel's candid and incredibly intimate story of being forced to acknowledge that while you can try to overcome the loss of a parent, you can never escape your genetic legacy. When she was diagnosed with the same disease that killed her mother, Gabriel began her treatments and wrote her story.

This book discusses breast cancer, presenting information on the research that there are many different types of breast cancer, the controversies on genetic screening for breast cancer, and the strides being made in detection and treatment research.

Kelly Corrigan recounts her battle with breast cancer, which occurred at the same time her father was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and intermixes stories about her childhood and her unique relationship with her father.

A graphic memoir in which Marisa Acocella Marchetto chronicles her eleven-month battle with breast cancer, from diagnosis to cure.

Author Alice Hoffman offers lessons on living through and surviving tough times in life--like illness, death, and loss--based on stories from her own life and how she has been able to still find beauty in her life.

Provides young women with the most recent information on breast cancer, including how it is detected, what women can do to decrease their chances of getting it, how to cope with a diagnosis of breast cancer, what to expect when undergoing cancer treatment, and other related topics.

Tilden and her younger sister Elizabeth are uprooted again when their ever optimistic, romantic mother Frances moves them north to live with Nick, the owner of a limousine service, but everything seems to be going just fine until Frances discovers a lump in her breast.