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Living with Advanced Breast Cancer
200pp, 250 x 150mm,
Soft cover, ISBN 0 9775529 1 8
$24.95
In a beautiful and moving collection, women write about living with a diagnosis of secondary breast cancer, and the emotional, psychological and physical challenges involved. Their writing is insightful and inspiring. Twenty writers from across Australia share their thoughts and feelings with us. As we read about their experiences we grow to know them, and to understand a little more about life.
ReviewsThe Inside Story 3, Summer 2006 |
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'In those first dreadful months, I realised in my rare lucid moments that I craved contact with women who were also dying from the same bitch that had somehow snuck up on me. Instead, I found myself surrounded by women who were living with it. Their routines were interrupted by treatments, medical appointments and setbacks, but their lives went on and were rich and wonderful. I had never imagined that.' Lyn Clarke
'I am simply happy to be alive.' Maria Waters
'I have been hungry for information ever since I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I have advanced disease. It matters to me that I receive the best and most effective treatment and care. To be the best, such treatment and care must be informed by current data and knowledge. I want the whole story. I hope the reader will find, as I have, the material in this collection as well as the beautiful way it has been written, truly inspirational.'
Anne Pennington
'I return to hospital
Sandbagged by infection.
Strained and hesitant, my son asks
'Mum, are you dying?'
And I am undone.'
Carolyn Johnson
Writers
- Veronica Macaulay-Cross
- Mary McGregor
- Annie Hall
- Leona Furstenburg
- Trish Armstrong
- Judy Shepherdson
- Maria Waters
- Bronwyn Taylor
- Pat Mathew
- Lee-anne Hazeldene
- Lyn Clarke
- Mary Dewhurst
- Jenny Morrison
- Gayle Creed
- Jenny Muller
- Lesley Wilder
- Anne Pennington
- Monique Skarke
- Julie Pallot
- Carolyn Johnson