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"Reading with Friends Like Me™" Resource List
Opinions expressed in these books are those of the authors and inclusion on this list does not imply endorsement by the PBCC.  

The PBCC surveyed breast cancer survivors about reading materials they would suggest to a friend. These are their recommendations. If you have any additional recommendations, please email Kim at kim@pabreastcancer.org.

Do you have any of these books you would like to donate? The PBCC would love donations of these books to place in Friends Like Me™ care packages which are sent at no cost to women living in Pennsylvania who have been newly-diagnosed with breast cancer. Please email Kim at kim@pabreastcancer.org or send to: PA Breast Cancer Coalition, Trout Run Business Center, 344 North Reading Road, Ephrata, PA 17522.

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Cover Title Author Publisher Year ISBN
100 Questions & Answers About Life After Cancer: A Survivor’s Guide Page Tolbert, LCSW and Penny Damaskos, LCSW, OSWC Jones and Bartlett 2008 9780763750695
After Breast Cancer: A Common-Sense Guide to Life After Treatment Hester Hill Schnipper Bantam Dell 2006 0553381628
cover

The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet: The Powerful Foods, Supplements and Drugs that Combat Breast Cancer

Dr. Bob Arnot

Little Brown & Company

1999

0316051098

cover

The Cancer Recovery Eating Plan: The Right Foods to Help Fuel Your Recovery

*While this book was published over 10 years ago, the PBCC believes the information may be helpful to readers

Daniel W. Nixon, MD Three Rivers Press 1996 0812925904
cover

The Cancer Survivor’s Guide: The Essential Handbook to Life After Cancer

Michael Feuerstein, PhD, MPH

Patricia Findley, DrPH, MSW

Marlowe & Company 2006 1569243329
cover

Celebrating Life: African American Women Speak Out about Breast Cancer

Sylvia Dunnavant

Usfi Publications

1995

0964321149

Healing Plan Complementary Cancer Care: Your Healing Plan CD HealthMark
Multimedia, LLC
Visit 
HealthMarkMultimedia.com
 
to order.
2006 0-9717399-9-4
cover

Crazy Quilt

Paula Paul University of New Mexico Press 2005 082633704X
Cover I Am Not My Breast Cancer: Women Talk Openly about love & sex, hair loss & weight gain, mothers & daughters, and being a woman with breast cancer Ruth Peltason William Morrow 2008 9780061174100
Cover

Ice Bound: A Doctor’s Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole

Dr. Jerri Nielsen

Miramax 2002 0786886994
cover

Music as Medicine

Deforia Lane

Zondervan

1996

031020660X

Saving Jack Saving Jack: A Man’s Struggle with Breast Cancer Jack Willis University of Oklahoma Press 2008

0806138955

cover

Sudden Menopause: Restoring Health and Emotional Well-Being

Debbie Deangelo

Hunter House

2001

0897933257

The Total Cancer Wellness Guide: Reclaiming Your Life After Diagnosis Kim Thiboldeaux and Mitch Golant, PhD BenBella Books, Inc. 2007 193377116X
cover

The Wisdom of Menopause

Christiane Northrup, MD

Bantam

2003

055338080X

cover What Helped Get Me Through: Cancer Survivors Share Wisdom and Hope Edited by Julie K. Silver, MD American Cancer Society 2009 9781604430042
cover When Bad Things Happen to Good People Harold S. Kushner Avon 1983 0380603926

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