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| View Larger Image | Living With Colon Cancer: Beating the Odds | Paperbackby Eliza Wood Livingston (Author), David, M.D. Spiegel (Foreword)
| List Price: | $19.98 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Prometheus Books | | Edition: | 1st Edition | | Page Count: | 352 Pages | | Publication Date: | September 06, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 869,667th |
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Product Description
Despite the efforts of Katie Couric to draw attention to the importance of colonoscopy screening for the detection of colon cancer, this cancer still does not receive the publicity devoted to breast, lung, and prostate cancer. Yet colorectal cancer is the third most common malignancy in the world and is the second leading cause of death from cancer next to lung cancer. As a result, colon cancer patients and their families often feel isolated and do not have the support and information networks available to those coping with more publicized illnesses. In this helpful and inspiring book, Eliza Wood Livingston provides a wealth of practical information about colon cancer while telling of her own heroic battle against this challenging disease and her survival after a bleak diagnosis. Designed to provide both vital information and emotional support, Livingston’s story will help anyone faced with the difficult ordeals of surgery, chemotherapy, colostomy, and the emotional roller coaster that patients often experience. At every stage of overcoming these trying hurdles, she tells readers what to expect, helps them to be their own advocates and ask the right questions of medical personnel, and effectively conveys the comforting message that they need never feel alone. A very reader-friendly text, with many useful sidebars highlighting important points, makes this accessible book easy to follow for average readers. Livingston points out that while society seems more willing to recognize and openly discuss other life-threatening illnesses, colorectal cancer has a certain sense of shame and secrecy about it. Her personal story of courage and complete openness about her condition go a long way toward dispelling the fear and embarrassment often associated with colon cancer. Most important, she gives fellow patients and their families hope that they too can triumph over this serious disease. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 9 reviews)
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Take it from a Cancer survivor! by E W Puddle (FL USA)  5 Stars
May 10, 2009
I was just diagnosed with rectal cancer when I found this book. I'd been in the hospital for a month with complication after complication and hadn't been back to work yet when I found that I needed SOMETHING to help me understand and accept what I was going thru. This book was what I turned to when I needed someone who understoond what I didn't...what I wasn't sure of...what I wanted desperately for someone to relate to...when I couldn't share with my loved ones. It is the best book I've read on what it feels like to have a colostomy and a cancer that no one wants to talk about...it's too embarassing.
I would HIGHLY suggest this book to ANYONE interested in or effected by colon cancer or rectal cancer or anal cancer...the taboo cancers. It was so relieving to read a paragraph or a sentence and go "YES!! I have that too!" or "So THAT'S what that's all about." Eliza's experience may not be what everyone goes thru...she had a rough time of it...but anyone experiencing this type of cancer WILL find something in common with her experiences and can be soothed by the fact that there is written proof that they are not alone in this...and we CAN win.
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Too negative by Occasional Reader  2 Stars
July 13, 2006
Eliza certainly went through tough times through her illness both because of the US centric healthcare system, the less than first class medical professionals, as well as the treatments itself. Would not recommend this book for anyone actually having Colon Cancer.
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Insights on what to expect and how to handle it are well done and very specific by Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) 5 Stars
May 04, 2006
Colon cancer doesn't receive the publicity devoted to other types of cancer, yet it's the third most common malignancy in the world and the second leading cause of death from cancer, aside from lung cancer. Living With Colon Cancer: Beating The Odds tells of the author's own battle against colon cancer, her survival after a terrible diagnosis, and how to cope with treatment and emotional highs and lows. Insights on what to expect and how to handle it are well done and very specific.
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Insights on what to expect and how to handle it are well done and very specific by Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) 5 Stars
May 04, 2006
Colon cancer doesn't receive the publicity devoted to other types of cancer, yet it's the third most common malignancy in the world and the second leading cause of death from cancer, aside from lung cancer. Living With Colon Cancer: Beating The Odds tells of the author's own battle against colon cancer, her survival after a terrible diagnosis, and how to cope with treatment and emotional highs and lows. Insights on what to expect and how to handle it are well done and very specific.
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Insights on what to expect and how to handle it are well done and very specific by Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) 5 Stars
May 04, 2006
Colon cancer doesn't receive the publicity devoted to other types of cancer, yet it's the third most common malignancy in the world and the second leading cause of death from cancer, aside from lung cancer. Living With Colon Cancer: Beating The Odds tells of the author's own battle against colon cancer, her survival after a terrible diagnosis, and how to cope with treatment and emotional highs and lows. Insights on what to expect and how to handle it are well done and very specific.
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