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Breast Cancer? Let Me Check My Schedule! (Paperback)

by Peggy McCarthy (Editor), Jo An Loren (Editor), Erma Bombeck (Author) "For as long as we can remember, we have taken charge of our lives..." (more)
Key Phrases: breast cancer experience, cancer metastasized, cancer recurred, New York, National Breast Cancer Coalition, Deciding About Treatment (more...)

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"Groundbreaking. Here are the voices of women whose wisdom and experience have much to say to other women and to health-care professionals about what it means to live with breast cancer. And I mean live. These are women who live busy, productive, meaningful lives as they confront breast cancer. At once practical and philosophical, these active, professional women share their experiences, knowledge and feelings generously." -- Sandra Morgan
Director, Center for Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon

"A very insightful and dynamic book! As an oncology nurse and professional woman, it spoke both to me and for me. This book emphasizes beautifully the need for understanding and compassion for any woman dealing with breast cancer who desires to pursue her goals, whether professional or personal, and to lead as normal a life as possible." -- Jo Ann Vergnolle, RN, OCN
Cancer Treatment Center, Greenville Hospital System

About the Author

Peggy McCarthy is the founder and executive director of Innovative Medical Education Consortium (IMEC), a nonprofit medical organization dedicated to meeting the needs of underserved populations. She also serves on the board of several cancer organizations. Jo An Loren, editor in chief of IMEC, has been a science and health administrator since the 1970s. Peggy McCarthy is the founder and executive director of Innovative Medical Education Consortium (IMEC), a nonprofit medical organization dedicated to meeting the needs of underserved populations. She also serves on the board of several cancer organizations. Jo An Loren, editor in chief of IMEC, has been a science and health administrator since the 1970s.

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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Basic Books; 1 edition (September 11, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0813333938
ISBN-13: 978-0813333939
Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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breast cancer experience, cancer metastasized, cancer recurred, lymph nodes under the arm, immediate reconstruction, reconstruction group, having breast cancer

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New York, National Breast Cancer Coalition, Deciding About Treatment, Charting the Journey, Consumer Reports Books, New Jersey, San Francisco, The Home Show, Health Psychology, Journal of the American Medical Association, Oncology Nursing Forum, The Lancet

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5.0 out of 5 stars Ground-breaking, insightful, dynamic!, August 29, 1999

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From the foreword written by Erma Bombeck:

I do not know nor have I ever met the ten women who authored this book.

But we share a common bond. All of us were watching our prime-time lives pass by when a voice announced, "We interrupt this life to bring you cancer." We didn't even have time to turn the dial.

I have read a hundred books on breast cancer - war stories of women who did battle with the most frightening adversary in their lives. But BREAST CANCER? LET ME CHECK MY SCHEDULE! is different. These are personal stories of ten women, all over thirty, who pursue careers outside their homes......the way they accepted their diagnosis, the decision sthey made, their approach to therapy and the way they coped all reflected their experience in the workplace.

I wanted to be part of this book mostly because of its title. It fits me to a "T." I too am a working woman complete with a little calendar that tells me when to have a headache. If it isn't penciled in, I don't have one. On April 23, 1992 under "Things to Do Today" I jotted down, "radical mastectomy, noon."

.........

As I read this book, I was hoping it would address the one emotion that all cancer patients rarely speak about: the uncertainty of our future. It did. We are a unique group who have been allowed to face our mortality, and oddly enough, it has made us better people for it. There isn't a survivor who doesn't admit she has changed. ........

I've heard women say, "I can't read cancer books. They're downers. BREAST CANCER? LET ME CHECK MY SCHEDULE is not a downer. How could it be when you enter the lives of these ten women who triumph over an invasion of their bodies. These are women with drive and purpose who aren't ready to give up. Cancer? It's a full week. I'll have my people call your people and set something up.

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24 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Prima donnas with breast cancer? Well, sort of., August 29, 1999

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This is a concept book, as you might guess from the title. I didn't much care for the concept.Ten busy professional women, all initially diagnosed with Stage I or II breast cancer, were invited by McCarthy Medical Marketing and Innovative Medical Education Consortium, Inc. to form a focus group that would help to foreground the needs of their special category - busy professional women with breast cancer - for the edification of medical personnel and other cancer care providers. The resulting book, put together in-house by MMM and IMEC, "is intended to provide health-care professionals with insight into what makes this group of women 'different' and, in turn, to enhance their relationships with them." And how are these women "different?" The book explains, "For all ten authors, the diagnosis of breast cancer was a major inconvenience because...it interrupted their busy, active, and fulfilled lives." It turns out none of them felt comfortable crying in doctor's offices or losing control. Nor enjoyed the disagreeable task of "comforting distraught well-wishers" such as their friends and extended family. Nor - back to the title - easily found time for treatment and other medical visits. Why, one woman had the unimaginable experience of being put on hold 15 minutes for her lab results! Whew, what a relief that the rest of us don't have any of that to worry about. As the book progresses and this offensive start-off impression recedes into the background, the characters become more sympathetic and their medical and professional fates interesting. So I'm inclined to hope that these 10 authors didn't quite anticipate how the final draft would make them look. Every woman who has breast cancer has a right to our sympathy and concern. That goes for busy professionals too. Will appeal to: Obsessive fact-gatherers trying to assess their options and eager to learn what happened to other people with a similar lifestyle.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The book I really needed, May 27, 2005

By	Barbara Gay (Alexandria, VA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book addressed one of the primary issues for me, as a newly diagnosed cancer survivor - how to keep up with my job while still taking the time needed for medical treatments and recuperation. The book focuses on ten fairly high-powered women with executive and professional jobs, but the preface notes that nowadays most mid-life women are working outside the home and have to balance work responsibilities with their personal needs. Many of us are single and self-supporting; employer-provided health insurance is essential to cover the considerable costs of treatment. So this book helped to answer my overwhelming need to know how to communicate with people at work and how to balance my work schedule with the time I needed to deal with the cancer.

Some of the technical information in the book is a little outdated, since the experience of some of the women went back into the 1980s and the book itself came out in 1997. However, I found the book enormously useful in addressing the work-related issues that often are given little attention in other cancer books I've read.

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