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Cancer Schmancer by Fran Drescher

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maddy4prezident's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

This book was funny, heart-wrenching, educational, and hopeful. Fran Drescher has such incredible self-awareness and writes about her cancer journey with a refreshing amount of honesty. It is frustrating (and oddly validating) that she was repeatedly misdiagnosed and mistreated throughout her life, and it highlights the failures of our medical system. And yet, despite the solemn subject of the book, Fran still organically weaves in a lightheartedness in her narration that carries the reader through the heavier emotions brought up throughout the text. My only critiques are that I wish the book was written with slightly more distance than one year post-op. While there's something very raw and real about the way the book ends, Fran leaves us still in the thick of it, and I wish she could have included even one chapter (or an afterward) with her perspective being 5 years out. Overall, I would recommend this to anyone interested in women's health, cancer treatments, or the holistic impact of diseases

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mjschroed's review against another edition

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emotional funny informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

sarah_moynihan's review

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4.0

3.5 stars, rounded up to 4 stars.

emjay24's review against another edition

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3.0

This is a memoir written by Fran Drescher, the nanny. It seems she had another memoir for the preceding years, but I have not found that one. This one begins right as her marriage and her show are ending, and she begins experiencing lots of bad symptoms. she takes us through two years of being sick before discovering that she had cancer, and then takes us through her surgery and recovery. i was surprised that since she is a celebrity, she got such bad and wrong medical care, but it goes to show that anyone can be overlooked in our medical system. The writing style is very, very casual. it's more like she's actually there having a conversation with you instead of writing a book. this means that some things that maybe should be left out, get left in, but it also makes it seem more honest and real. We also get the story of a woman who had been in a relationship with one guy since she was a teen, and never really had a youthful youth, now trying to find herself at 40. Super quick read, very informational on the medical side, overall a good book that people should read so that they remember to take their health into their own hands.

stacerino's review against another edition

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5.0

A must read for any Fran Drescher fan!

I have always been a huge Fran Drescher fan and boy this book did not dissapoint.

She told her story with such raw emotion and grace, I found myself even crying, she really takes you on the journey and is a great story teller.

Highly recomend ❤️