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This unusual series of reflections covers the social, physical, psychological and cultural challenges of pursuing care and treatment for breast cancer and post-Chemo breast reconstruction. The author, a poet, writing professor and single-parent, shares her solo journey through Cancer Land in brazenly honest and painfully-drawn detail. Her commentary moves back and forth between the personal and public -- from historical treatments and remedies developed in early Greece to the hypocrisy behind the Susan G. Komen marketing campaign that enriched the Komen family members while donating very little to future research on breast cancer.
If you, or a loved one, have survived breast cancer treatment, this book will surely resonate. For those who haven't traveled this road, it painfully highlights the difficulty of the journey while debunking the notion that women who beat the disease are heroes who've kicked cancer's butt. The long-term side affects and compromises to women's lives after breast cancer treatment are ongoing and unpleasant.
If you, or a loved one, have survived breast cancer treatment, this book will surely resonate. For those who haven't traveled this road, it painfully highlights the difficulty of the journey while debunking the notion that women who beat the disease are heroes who've kicked cancer's butt. The long-term side affects and compromises to women's lives after breast cancer treatment are ongoing and unpleasant.