Living Time Faith and Facts to Transform Your Cancer Journey

Name: Living Time Faith and Facts to Transform Your Cancer Journey
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ISBN: 9780553384543

ISBN-10: 0553384546

ISBN-13: 9780553384543

Edition: N/A

Authors: Bernadine Healy

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Living Timeis 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…

Book details

List price: $14.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/25/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English




The Start of My Journey



A Valentine's Day



The New Face of Cancer



How Cancer Comes to Be



Anatomy of Cancer



The Hubris of Immortality



Cancer on the March



Can We Control Our Fate?



Cancer Risk Factors



Making an Everyday Difference



Working with Your Doctor



Treatment's New Era



Getting Started



Why Cancer Treatment Works



Treatment Scorecards



Patient Empowered



Personal Choice



Medics, Mentors, and Cancer Centers



Survivors Rising



Reaching Out



Survivors All



Attitudes of the Head and the Heart



Weathering the Storm



Living Time


Resources


Acknowledgments


Index


About the Author