OncoLink Cancer Blogs » CancerLand Bookshelf http://www.oncolink.org/blogs Blogs from OncoLink Cancer Resources Fri, 17 May 2013 20:41:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 CancerLand Bookshelf: In the Body of the World http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2013/04/cancerland-bookshelf-in-the-body-of-the-world/ http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2013/04/cancerland-bookshelf-in-the-body-of-the-world/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:00:11 +0000 Alysa Cummings http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/?p=5015 At the very mention of her name - Eve Ensler - I'm transported back in time. Suddenly it's the year 2001 and I'm sitting in a darkened Philadelphia theater along with ten other women from my breast cancer support group.

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]]> http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2013/04/cancerland-bookshelf-in-the-body-of-the-world/feed/ 0 The CancerLand Bookshelf: What Will I Look Like? http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2013/04/the-cancerland-bookshelf-what-will-i-look-like/ http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2013/04/the-cancerland-bookshelf-what-will-i-look-like/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:51:53 +0000 Alysa Cummings http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/?p=4917 What will I look like? The first time I ask the question, it's one week before my scheduled lumpectomy.

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]]> http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2013/04/the-cancerland-bookshelf-what-will-i-look-like/feed/ 0 The CancerLand Bookshelf: How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who’s Sick http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2013/04/the-cancerland-bookshelf-how-to-be-a-friend-to-a-friend-whos-sick/ http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2013/04/the-cancerland-bookshelf-how-to-be-a-friend-to-a-friend-whos-sick/#comments Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:00:50 +0000 Alysa Cummings http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/?p=4843 After fifteen years in CancerLand, I know this much is true. After patients hear their doctor say, “I’m sorry, it’s cancer,” they do one of two things.

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]]> http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2013/04/the-cancerland-bookshelf-how-to-be-a-friend-to-a-friend-whos-sick/feed/ 0 CancerLand Bookshelf with Annette Bennington McElhiney http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2013/03/cancerland-bookshelf-with-annette-bennington-mcelhiney/ http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2013/03/cancerland-bookshelf-with-annette-bennington-mcelhiney/#comments Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:00:46 +0000 Alysa Cummings http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/?p=4756 I use a digital camera and hunt for colorful spring flowers to tune into the artist in me, while ovarian cancer survivor Annette Bennington McElhiney paints an alter ego she has named Althea.

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]]> http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2013/03/cancerland-bookshelf-with-annette-bennington-mcelhiney/feed/ 0 CancerLand Bookshelf: Chief Complaint: Brain Tumor http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2013/03/chief-complaint-brain-tumor/ http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2013/03/chief-complaint-brain-tumor/#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:20:24 +0000 OncoLink Editorial Team http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/?p=4656 Author: John Kerastas Publisher: Sunstone Press, 2012 | $16.95 US Information: ISBN: 9780865349087 OncoLink Rating: At first glance, John Kerastas and I couldn’t be more different from one another. For starters, he’s a guy recovering from recent treatment for a brain tumor and I’m a 15 year breast cancer survivor. Then there’s the issue of geography; [...]

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]]> http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2013/03/chief-complaint-brain-tumor/feed/ 0 CancerLand Bookshelf: Sound Travels on Water http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2013/02/cancerland-bookshelf-sound-travels-on-water/ http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2013/02/cancerland-bookshelf-sound-travels-on-water/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:07:29 +0000 Alysa Cummings http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/?p=4620 Book Review: Serendipity: that's the word that immediately comes to mind when I think about how I happened to connect with Kyle Potvin's delightful chapbook, Sound Travels on Water.

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]]> http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2013/02/cancerland-bookshelf-sound-travels-on-water/feed/ 0 CancerLand Bookshelf: Looking at Light: 100 Poems in 100 Days after cancer http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2013/02/cancerland-bookshelf-looking-at-light-100-poems-in-100-days-after-cancer/ http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2013/02/cancerland-bookshelf-looking-at-light-100-poems-in-100-days-after-cancer/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:02:43 +0000 Alysa Cummings http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/?p=4223 Somewhere in the middle of reading Looking at Light, a vivid moment from a cancer support group meeting plays back in my head, almost like a scene from a movie.

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]]> http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2013/02/cancerland-bookshelf-looking-at-light-100-poems-in-100-days-after-cancer/feed/ 0 CancerLand Bookshelf: L is for Lion: an Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2013/01/l-is-for-lion/ http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2013/01/l-is-for-lion/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:10:28 +0000 Alysa Cummings http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/?p=4072 L is for Lion is one big, beautifully written book, filled with colorful stories about many different things: Italian families, life in the Bronx, lesbianism and treatment for cancer.

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]]> http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2012/11/cancerland-bookshelf-the-end-of-your-life-book-club/feed/ 0 The CancerLand Bookshelf: The Red Devil Revisited http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2012/07/the-cancerland-bookshelf-the-red-devil-revisited/ http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/index.php/2012/07/the-cancerland-bookshelf-the-red-devil-revisited/#comments Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:00:33 +0000 Alysa Cummings http://www.oncolink.org/blogs/?p=2357 Kathy Rich's book The Red Devil "spoke" to me when it first came out, and there are lots of good reasons why.

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