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Also by Robert Schimmel:

Cancer on Five Dollars a Day (chemo not included), January 2009
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Cancer on $5 a Day* *(chemo not included), March 2008
Hardcover

CANCER ON FIVE DOLLARS A DAY (CHEMO NOT INCLUDED)
By: Robert Schimmel

How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life

Da Capo Lifelong Books
January 2009
On Sale: January 5, 2009
224 pages
ISBN: 0738213187
EAN: 9780738213187
Paperback
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Non-Fiction

In the spring of 2000, stand-up comedian Robert Schimmel was diagnosed with stage III non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and soon the fire of his white-hot career started to fizzle. But Schimmel never lost his sense of humor, his searing honesty, and most of all, his passion to make people laugh. Indeed, it was his basic need to entertain—even if the only people around him were suffering from cancer and the room he was playing was the Mayo Clinic infusion center—that carried him through his ordeal.

Alternately laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving, Cancer on $5 a Day is a stirring account of how one man’s face-off with a deadly disease helped him better understand himself, and ultimately changed his life.

Media Buzz

Fresh Air - NPR - September 8, 2010
Fresh Air - NPR - January 16, 2009