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Dec 26, 2023 · Whether you’re looking for someone to tell you the cold hard facts, or read a story to lift your spirits, it’s out there. Here 6 remarkable cancer memoirs, each different in tone and story, and each uniquely able to teach, comfort and guide.
The diary of a dying man: Graham Caveney’s poignant cancer memoir. With months to live, Caveney looks back on his childhood, muses on favourite writers, decries NHS underfunding and rejoices in...
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Mar 1, 2012 · In this truly inspirational memoir , Anita Moorjani relates how, after fighting cancer for almost four years, her body—overwhelmed by the malignant cells spreading throughout her system—began shutting down.
- Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2011 history of cancer was a book I first read just after it came out, when a relative of mine was struggling with the disease.
- Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air. When Paul Kalanithi was a young man, he contemplated a literary life, before turning toward neurosurgery, where, he believed, he could do something even deeper: understand the nature of thought.
- Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. All doctors deal with death, but young physicians starting out during the pandemic experienced death in numbers that were traumatizing.
- Pauline W. Chen, Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality. This book was recommended by Rob’s daughter, Bobbi Meyer, who was starting medical school as the pandemic took hold.
- The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care by Anne Boyer. This book…is a powerhouse. I’ve read a lot of cancer memoirs, and I even hesitate to call this a “cancer memoir” because it is so much more than that: it is an indictment of how we see and treat cancer, especially breast cancer.
- The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last by Azra Raza. This book is a must-read. It explores the costs of cancer research and treatment—both financial and human, and how despite millions and millions of dollars spent in research and clinical trials, the majority of cancer drugs in the last few decades only minimally extend life, and in a significant percentage, are actually harmful to people.
- The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee. This book is one of my all-time favorites. Mukherjee is a master at writing about complicated things in a way that brings them to life in an interesting way.
- Tough: Women Who Survived Cancer edited by Marquina Iliev-Piselli. This is a collection of stories of women with a variety of different cancers. The tone is decidedly positive—yes, there’s honesty in the essays, but it does skew toward the “cancer changed my life and is a gift” kind of story.
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Sep 10, 2019 · Boyer’s extraordinary and furious new book, “The Undying,” is partly a memoir of her illness, diagnosed five years ago; she was 41 years old when she learned that the lump in her breast was ...
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