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Cancer Happens: Coming of Age with Cancer

Cancer Happens: Coming of Age with Cancer


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About the Book

Most cancer books deal with patients who are children or seniors, or mature women with breast cancer. Rebecca Gifford was stricken as a young adult, fresh out of college and eager to begin an exciting new job when she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. During the next two years, Rebecca endured chemotherapy, a bone marrow transplant, the loss of her independence, and the collapse of her budding career. In this honest and probing memoir, Rebecca tells it like it was - from hair loss to confinement, therapy groups, lack of sex, funerals, morphine, premature menopause, professional humiliation, and much, much more.

About the Author :
Rebecca Gifford is a regular contributor to Oncology.com and MSNBC.com. Her columns also appear on the web site for HBO's program Cancer Evolution and Revolution. Gifford is the co-founder of the literary reading series Being Conscious in New York's Collective Unconscious theatre. Gifford currently lives in Ohio with her husband Larry. Her web site is www cancerhappens.com.

Review :
"Cancer Happens lets people know they are not alone." - Chris Spielman, former professional football player and co-founder of the Stephanie Spielman Fund for Breast Cancer Research; "Thoughtful, witty, always truthful, Gifford reminds cancer sufferers that their lives matter - even when they're engulfed in misery. That is the time when people are watching and learning from their fight, from their courage. It's not a role you asked for, she seems to say, but it's the one you were given. You have become, by your illness, a teacher." - LA Times; Cancer Happens is Gifford's nitty-gritty Cancer Confidential. Each card is flipped over in turn. Readers are even privy to what's hiding up her sleeve." - Cincinnati City Beat; "As an oncologist, I can describe in detail the molecular biology of B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, but I could only imagine the inner thoughts, emotions and feelings of the cancer patients I treat. Cancer Happens allowed me to experience the cancer and its treatments through Rebecca, and I am grateful for that." - Dr. David Agus, research director of Cedar Sinai Prostate Cancer Center and founder of www Oncology.com; "Reading like a novel, but smacking of truth for all of us who have ever heard the diagnosis attached to our name, this is what it's like to be on the thrill ride where the person strapping you in actually gives you the odds on you finishing the ride alive. I felt that much more alive making this trip with Rebecca Gifford." - Gil Gross, ABC News"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781931868723
  • Publisher: Capital Books, Incorporated,US
  • Publisher Imprint: Capital Books, Incorporated,US
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Coming of Age with Cancer
  • ISBN-10: 1931868727
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2001
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Returnable: N


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