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Living Time: Faith and Facts to Transform Your Cancer Journey | 
| Author: Bernadine Healy
Publisher: Bantam
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 32807
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0553384546
Dewey Decimal Number: 616
EAN: 9780553384543
ASIN: 0553384546
Publication Date: March 25, 2008
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Product Description
Living Time is 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 transforming many others from a death sentence to a chronic illness, one that calls for vigilance but not despair.
Beginning with her own compelling story, Dr. Healy interweaves it with one of the most lucid narratives ever written of what cancer is, how it works in our bodies, and how we can defeat it. She explains how genetic research and other new approaches are radically altering diagnosis and treatment, and she offers precise and empowering ways for patients and their families to access the information and support they need to secure the best in modern cancer care. She also underlines the urgency of accelerating the pace of research that could map out and destroy cancer in the twenty-first century.
Dr. Healy is forthright about the rigors of treatment and the toll cancer still takes, but readers will come away from her book with the information, resources, and heartfelt encouragement they need to look forward to a future with hope.
From the Hardcover edition.
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 A must for brain cancer patients/families July 23, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The first chapter of this book was mesmerizing. Could it mirror my family's crisis any more? It was very kind of Dr. Healy to share her experience. I now know that my family isn't the only one blindsided by an oligodendroglioma. There was a shift in the book, however, from personal to technical. It discusses how cancer happens on the cellular level. It's good information, but sometimes it read like a medical text. There is a lot of imformation on the types of research being done and the hope that all patients should have. It was general enough for anyone dealing with cancer, but particularly beneficial for those with brain cancer. She includes a wonderful list of resources for cancer patients. I also appreciated that even as a doctor, she encouraged cancer patients to make there own informed decisions about their health care.
 living time July 3, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
An excellent book, loaded with facts, for anyone suffering from cancer, heart disease or other medical conditions.
Victor J. Albertazzi, MD
i found it well witten and informative. May 17, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
well written and ienjoyed it
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