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Editorial Reviews
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Starred Review. Learning you have cancer is a shocking and fearful revelation, even for a physician. A former director of the National Institutes of Health and overseer of the National Cancer Institute, doctor and columnist Healy was working to expand the cancer genetics program at Ohio State University when she was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. For all her medical training and experience, she was as unprepared as anyone: "It's a universal fact: when serious illness strikes, we are the same vulnerable souls." Seven years later, Healy is now one of more than ten million cancer survivors in the U.S. Healy shares her personal story while also examining cancer risks, research, treatment and prevention. There's no professional distance here, but rather an inclusive and illuminating perspective stemming from Healy's dual role that makes topics like genetic research as accessible as chapters devoted to managing overwhelming fear and making healthy everyday decisions. Viewing the cancer experience as a "living time," as opposed to a "dying time," Healy's message is positive, hopeful, and no less honest or informative for it.
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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.
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Starred Review. Learning you have cancer is a shocking and fearful revelation, even for a physician. A former director of the National Institutes of Health and overseer of the National Cancer Institute, doctor and columnist Healy was working to expand the cancer genetics program at Ohio State University when she was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. For all her medical training and experience, she was as unprepared as anyone: "It's a universal fact: when serious illness strikes, we are the same vulnerable souls." Seven years later, Healy is now one of more than ten million cancer survivors in the U.S. Healy shares her personal story while also examining cancer risks, research, treatment and prevention. There's no professional distance here, but rather an inclusive and illuminating perspective stemming from Healy's dual role that makes topics like genetic research as accessible as chapters devoted to managing overwhelming fear and making healthy everyday decisions. Viewing the cancer experience as a "living time," as opposed to a "dying time," Healy's message is positive, hopeful, and no less honest or informative for it.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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.
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