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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.
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Dec 28, 2016 · Memoirs and autobiographies provide us with true and entertaining stories. They often sound too surreal to be real (there’s definitely some exaggerating, but we’re ok with that). Pick any of these books and we’ll tell you which memoir you should read next.
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- 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.
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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Jul 3, 2019 · 1. Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person. Cartoonist Miriam Engelberg was 43 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person is a graphic memoir of her journey. The...
