I Am Not My Breast Cancer: Women Talk Openly About Love and Sex, Hair Lo ss and Weight Gain, Mothers and Daughters and Being a Woman with Breas

(Paperback)

Available Formats

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

I Am Not My Breast Cancer gathers the warm, loving, frank, and informed voices of more than eight hundred womenfrom every state in the nation and from continents as far away as Australia and Africawho reveal their fears, trade advice, share experiences, and express their deepest, most intimate concerns. Essential reading for any woman with this diagnosis, it offers the companionship of other women dealing with this disease. Taking the reader chronologically through the stages of diagnosis, treatment, recovery, and self-discovery, I Am Not My Breast Cancer offers women a deeper understanding of themselves and living with cancer.

Reviews

"Filled with experience, strength and hope. It even offers humor and fine words affirming to any woman with breast cancer that they are not defined by that cancer...I AM NOT MY BREAST CANCER is part support system, part honest analysis from women who've been there." -- RecoveryWorld.com

Author Bio

Ruth Peltason runs Bespoke Books, a small book producing company that specializes in books on the cultural arts, including Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry, Kate Spade''s Occasions, Style, and Manners. I Am Not My Breast Cancer grew out of the author''s passion to wed her skills as a book editor and her own experiences with breast cancer. She was previously senior editor, director of design and style books with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, and lives in New York City.