Cancer's Beautiful Scars: An Emotional Journey

By all accounts, she was a "healthy, young woman". Everyone was shocked when she was diagnosed with cancer. This book is the personal account of a woman who spent 20 years in the pharmaceutical and health food industries, working in cancer research. It follows her emotional journey through her career, both parents' diagnoses of cancer and their ultimate deaths, as well as her step by step account of her own diagnosis - all within 2 years. It details her emotions and thoughts from when she first noticed something was wrong, through biopsy, surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation.This book offers insight into what really goes on in the minds and bodies of people who are fighting cancer. It offers support, understanding, suggestions, and anecdotes about living and working with cancer - and the grief that comes with it. It also details one woman's account though the stages of grief and coping with a life-threatening diagnosis and the trauma that can be associated with it.This book should be required - or at least strongly recommended - reading for cancer patients, their family, support 'people', friends and all health care workers. It is so important for people to know what they might expect over the course of treatment and healing; yet their own experience will be unique. Written in such a matter of fact way that, although still awful, her descriptions always seem to hold some promise that things will get better.