Let's face it, cancer sucks. This book provides real-life advice from real-life teens designed to help teens live with a parent who is fighting cancer.

One million American teenagers live with a parent who is fighting cancer. It's a hard blow for those already navigating high school, preparing for college, and becoming increasingly independent.

Author Maya Silver was 15 when her mom was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001. She and her dad, Marc, have combined their family's personal experience with advice from dozens of medical professionals and real stories from 100 teens--all going through the same thing Maya did.

The topic of cancer can be difficult to approach, but in a highly designed, engaging style, this book gives practical guidance that includes:

• How to talk about the diagnosis (and what does diagnosis even mean, anyway?)
• The best outlets for stress (punching a wall is not a great one, but should it happen, there are instructions for a patch job)
• How to deal with friends (especially one the ones with 'pity eyes')
• Whether to tell the teachers and guidance counselors and what they should know (how not to get embarrassed in class)
• What happens in a therapy session and how to find a support group if you want one

A special section for parents also gives tips on strategies for sharing the news and explaining cancer to a child, making sure your child doesn't become the parent, what to do if the outlook is grim, and tips for how to live life after cancer.

My Parent Has Cancer and It Really Sucks allows teens to see that they are not alone. That no matter how rough things get, they will get through this difficult time. That everything they're feeling is ok. Essays from Gilda Radner's Gilda's Club annual contest are an especially poignant and moving testimony of how other teens dealt with their family's situation.

Praise for My Parent Has Cancer and It Really Sucks:

Wisely crafted into a wonderfully warm, engaging and informative book that reads like a chat with a group of friends with helpful advice from the experts. --Paula K. Rauch MD, Director of the Marjorie E. Korff Parenting At a Challenging Time Program

A must read for parents, kids, teachers and medical staff who know anyone with cancer. You will learn something on every page. --Anna Gottlieb, MPA, Founder and CEO Gilda's Club Seattle

This book is a 'must have' for oncologists, cancer treatment centers and families with teenagers. --Kathleen McCue, MA, LSW, CCLS, Director of the Children's Program at The Gathering Place, Cleveland, OH

My Parent Has Cancer and It Really Sucks provides a much-needed toolkit for teens coping with a parent's cancer. --Jane Saccaro, CEO of Camp Kesem, a camp for children who have a parent with cancer

Written by one of the country's leading experts on Heart Failure, this completely new book provides a personalized approach, information and advice, guiding you and your family towards getting optimal heart failure care. Heart failure still affects over 6 million Americans, fill our hospitals and consumes enormous healthcare resources in the US and worldwide. Much of the impact of heart failure is lack of process and coordination of care with patients firmly inserted as team members.

Dr. Silver says, Strategic Heart Failure is a distillation of how my team and I helped patients and improved their outcomes for almost 4 decades. I want to share this approach directly with patients; they can help lead their healthcare, understand how decisions are made and improve the entire process of heart failure care.

Understanding of a few fundamentals of heart failure care, especially the metrics and language that guideline directed care is crafted from, patients and families can not only join their care team but become the CEO This Strategic approach moves people with heart failure from patients to partners within a caring, coordinated and engaged teams.

Four prior editions of his books, Success with Heart Failure, elevated the understanding of the heart failure syndrome among thousands worldwide. His motivation for Strategic Heart Failure was his realization that his work on clinical trials, research, training other men and women professionals, serving on national guideline committees, being an Editor- in-Chief of a heart failure journal and even being one of the first Board Certified Fellows in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant was not enough. Even having one of the finest and most dedicated teams was not enough. It is critical for:

The patient to be involved

The patient to be the team leader

The patient to speak the Heart Failure language and understand the rationale and process for every life impacting decision.

Included is:

Where to start even before deciding on drugs and devices?

Who should be on your team?

What is the Patient Profile and why it is essential for all team members to use?

What are the various classifications of heart failure and why it matters?

What does HFrEF, HFpEF and HFmEF mean and why does it matter?

Why the majority of patients with or at risk for heart failure may not know of their risk?

How to use published heart failure guidelines?

What other chronic diseases commonly overlap with heart failure?

What are biomarkers and how should they be used?

And much, much more...including information on COVID-19, SGLT2 inhibiting drugs, lifesaving medicines including ARNIs, and technologies you may not be aware of such as blood volume analysis.

And the truth is that Strategic Heart Failure is an approach that is of value to anyone with heart failure but also can be applied to any other chronic disease. So, let's get Strategic

A unique, must-have resource with medical information, practical tips, psychological insight, and coping strategies to help men help the women they love through the challenges of breast cancer

With a wonderful blend of empathy, humor, and information, Breast Cancer Husband is a buddy and an on-call support group for men who love women with breast cancer.--Hester Hill Schnipper, oncology social worker and author of After Breast Cancer

Featuring a foreword by medical oncologist Frederick P. Smith, M.D.

More than 300,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year in the United States. In 2001, Marc Silver's wife became one of these women when a routine mammogram revealed early-stage breast cancer. Marc's lackluster response to the news (Ew, that doesn't sound good.) led to a realization: There was no book with the advice and information he so desperately needed as a frightened and helpless breast cancer husband. Naturally, he decided to write his own.

Through his years as an award-winning consumer journalist and veteran of the News You Can Use staff at U.S. News & World Report, Marc learned what kind of information and advice on medical crises readers found most valuable. He draws on that experience as he covers, in depth, all the issues that couples coping with breast cancer will have to face during diagnosis, treatment, and beyond, including:

- Shared experiences of other breast cancer husbands
- Guidance from top doctors in the country
- Advice on when, how, and what to tell your young children
- Tips on coping with radiation and chemotherapy
- Candid discussions of sex and intimacy following breast cancer surgery

With Breast Cancer Husband, Marc has created the emotionally supportive and useful resource he wished he had been able to consult--one that gives men the tools they need to help their wives, their families, and themselves through this scary and uncertain time.

Maya Angelou once wrote, All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike. We have all heard the saying, Have a heart Indeed, the pivotal organ that governs life in every aspect from physical to spiritual and everything in between is the heart. Yet how much do you truly know about it?

As you open the pages of this book, you will find it to be unlike the multitude of other books written about the very organ that beats for us day after day, moment after moment since conception. First, you will be captivated by the incredible heart of the man that wrote it. With great wisdom, Kris Vijay has crafted a book that showcases his knowledge of the inner workings of the heart. Kris takes a holistic view of the functions of the heart... including what makes the heart fail. He uses a variety of treatment options along with motivating, inspiring, and coaching to encourage patients to modify their lifestyles.

His mission has been in the prevention of risk factors of heart disease and diabetes at primordial, primary, secondary, and tertiary care levels. Prevention of heart failure has been his main goal.

What impressed me most is the way he describes each chapter, with highlighted information to capture the attention of the readers. The very style of writing a medical book in such a simple language, with a unique approach of storytelling, makes this monograph extremely useful.

Furthermore, including patient stories, explaining the underlying causes, and presenting management strategies makes this book a unique reference book for students, researchers, clinicians, and to some extent even to the patients who want to know more about their heart ailments.

I have never had the experience of reviewing a medical monograph, which includes emotions, passion, compassion, empathies to illustrate a case in point. Just reading this monograph will make you feel that every doctor you see for your consultation, should have the qualities that Kris expresses in this work of art.

Gundu H.R. Rao Lillehei Heart Institute, University of Minnesota

You will keep this informative book as your go-to textbook and find the simple, straightforward explanations of incredible value.

This book analyzes key aspects of Marx's Capital with an eye towards its relevance for an understanding of issues confronting us in the 21st Century. The contributions to this volume suggest that while aspects of Marx's original analysis must be adjusted to take into account changes that have occurred since its initial publication in 1867, his overall perspective remains necessary for understanding the nature of crises in 21st century. Part I emphasizes the central concepts Marx employed in Capital, including exploitation, capital accumulation, commodity fetishism, and his use of dialectics as a method for baring the underlying relations that define capitalism. Parts II and III extend that focus by addressing the concept of value, fictitious capital, credit and financialization. Parts IV and V offer analyses of several concrete manifestations of contemporary crises from national contexts (Europe, Latin America, China, and the United States). The volume argues that we have to combat the imperatives of capitalism to move towards a more humane and egalitarian future.

Maya Angelou once wrote, All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike. We have all heard the saying, Have a heart Indeed, the pivotal organ that governs life in every aspect from physical to spiritual and everything in between is the heart. Yet how much do you truly know about it?

As you open the pages of this book, you will find it to be unlike the multitude of other books written about the very organ that beats for us day after day, moment after moment since conception. First, you will be captivated by the incredible heart of the man that wrote it. With great wisdom, Kris Vijay has crafted a book that showcases his knowledge of the inner workings of the heart. Kris takes a holistic view of the functions of the heart... including what makes the heart fail. He uses a variety of treatment options along with motivating, inspiring, and coaching to encourage patients to modify their lifestyles.

His mission has been in the prevention of risk factors of heart disease and diabetes at primordial, primary, secondary, and tertiary care levels. Prevention of heart failure has been his main goal.

What impressed me most is the way he describes each chapter, with highlighted information to capture the attention of the readers. The very style of writing a medical book in such a simple language, with a unique approach of storytelling, makes this monograph extremely useful.

Furthermore, including patient stories, explaining the underlying causes, and presenting management strategies makes this book a unique reference book for students, researchers, clinicians, and to some extent even to the patients who want to know more about their heart ailments.

I have never had the experience of reviewing a medical monograph, which includes emotions, passion, compassion, empathies to illustrate a case in point. Just reading this monograph will make you feel that every doctor you see for your consultation, should have the qualities that Kris expresses in this work of art.

Gundu H.R. Rao Lillehei Heart Institute, University of Minnesota

You will keep this informative book as your go-to textbook and find the simple, straightforward explanations of incredible value.

Please Note: This book is available as a Kindle Paperback in Black and WhitePaperback in Full Color - The color version is quite striking, but cost more. Here is the link: https: //www.amazon.com/dp/1735469084