Holding Tight, Letting Go: Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer
"An excellent book....If knowledge is power, this book will be good medicine." --Dr. David Spiegel, Stanford University, author of"For years there have been so many requests for a resource book on metastatic breast cancer. Advanced Breast Cancer fills that void and does a wonderful service to thousands of women by giving them the resources they have been seeking, the support they need and the hope that research offers possibilities for a longer life.... The information on handling emotional issues, treatment options, side effects from treatment, and managing pain will be used as a resource bible on how to cope with metastatic breast disease for years to come." --Jane Rodney, Director, Breast Cancer Resource Center, YWCA, Princeton, NJ"Musa Mayer has given us a gift that we have needed for a long, long time: an in-depth, truthful, personal and informative resource about metastatic breast cancer. I believe that this book will be as important to women with metastatic breast cancer as Dr.Susan Love's Breast Book is to newly diagnosed breast cancer warriors." --Breast Cancer Action Newsletter"Real stories, well-researched advice and practical references that will be a lifeline for a growing group of patients, too often overlooked....This book should be part of every woman's treatment plan."(Amy S. Langer, Executive Director, NABCO  (National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations)) --Amy S. Langer, Executive Director, NABCO (National Alliance of"While there are dozens, if not hundreds, of self-help books on breast cancer, relatively few discuss these and other realities of metastatic disease. This is the superbly-handled subject of Musa Mayer's sensitive and beautifully written Holding Tight, Letting Go...This is a courageous book that needed to be written, but few could have done it, or done it so well. As it explores some of the most painful questions humans can ask themselves, it never ceases to be a celebration of the human spirit." --NABCO News, January, 1998