My Cancer Year
Subtitle: a Survivorship Memoir
Publisher: Tatra Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780981932187; 9780981932170
Subjects: Patients; HEALTH & FITNESS; Colon (Anatomy); Cancer; Diseases
Description: In MY CANCER YEAR, Curtis Pesmen, a veteran health journalist and book author, chronicles his successful fight with advanced colon cancer in a brutally honest and illuminating memoir. Through this moving account--which takes the reader through his initial shock of diagnosis, through treatment, experimental surgery and finally recovery--Pesmen's insights and experiences cast light on how to manage the challenges of cancer people don't like to talk about. This intimate memoir of a successful fight helps the fast-growing group of survivors--as well as family and friends--put cancer in its place w.
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Table of contents: title: Cover; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction. If i knew then; Prologue. Hollywood nights, survivor days; One. My cancer story; Two. Putting cancer in its place; Three. Friends and family: the other survivors; Four. Intimate matters: bedroom, bathroom, beyond; Five. My cancer story (+3 years): the sequel; Six. My cancer story +10 years; Seven. Backstory; Eight. Step-by-step; Nine. Oprah, paula, lance ... and me; Appendix. Letters to the author.