From diagnosis to surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and hormone therapy drugs, this is what One Year with Cancer looks like.
This memoir chronicles the life of a vibrant 40-year old woman faced with invasive breast cancer. Chaptered by months, Shelly shares her experience, strength and hope while enduring 3 surgeries, over 70 doctor appointments, 4 months of chemotherapy, 6 weeks of radiation, and hormone therapy drugs, as well as tips and knowledge for the newly diagnosed.
Straub says, “Just after learning that I had cancer, I began my search for a book that would help me understand. There is a plethora of available reference books and cancer stories from other survivors, but of the books I found, none of them put the order of one full year after diagnosis into an organized perspective that I could understand. And better yet, with photos that showed the true devastation of the treatment and actual changes of the body. I have written the book that I wished I had found.”
This memoir chronicles the life of a vibrant 40-year old woman faced with invasive breast cancer. Chaptered by months, Shelly shares her experience, strength and hope while enduring 3 surgeries, over 70 doctor appointments, 4 months of chemotherapy, 6 weeks of radiation, and hormone therapy drugs, as well as tips and knowledge for the newly diagnosed.
Straub says, “Just after learning that I had cancer, I began my search for a book that would help me understand. There is a plethora of available reference books and cancer stories from other survivors, but of the books I found, none of them put the order of one full year after diagnosis into an organized perspective that I could understand. And better yet, with photos that showed the true devastation of the treatment and actual changes of the body. I have written the book that I wished I had found.”
