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Faith and Facts to Transform Your Cancer Journey
Bantam
April 2007
On Sale: March 27, 2007
352 pages
ISBN: 0553804618
EAN: 9780553804614
Hardcover
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Self-Help Health
Living Time
is at once a personal odyssey, an intimate doctor-patient
communication, and a prescriptive guide for patients and their
families. Writing with wit and humility, Dr. Bernadine Healy
shares the
hard-won insights that transformed her own struggle with a
deadly
cancer more than seven years ago, affirming her identity as
patient and
doctor with the many who share this journey.
Together
with more
than ten million survivors in the United States alone, Dr.
Healy,
former director of the National Institutes of Health, is a close
witness to the medical advances that have brought us to a
turning point
in the war on cancer. This quiet revolution is curing a
growing number
of cancers and transforming many others from a death
sentence to a
chronic illness, one that calls for vigilance but not
despair.
Beginning
with her own compelling story, Dr. Healy interweaves it with
one of the
most lucid narratives ever written of what cancer is, how it
works in
our bodies, and how we can defeat it. She explains how
genetic research
and other new approaches are radically altering diagnosis and
treatment, and she offers precise and empowering ways for
patients and
their families to access the information and support they
need to
secure the best in modern cancer care. She also underlines
the urgency
of accelerating the pace of research that could map out and
destroy
cancer in the twenty-first century.
Dr. Healy is
forthright
about the rigors of treatment and the toll cancer still
takes, but
readers will come away from her book with the information,
resources,
and heartfelt encouragement they need to look forward to a
future with
hope.
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