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reviewed by Mary C. Maloy First published in the CRAAB! Newsletter, Vol 17. No. 1 (Fall 2014/Winter 2015), this review has been revised for the Breast Cancer Consortium and published with permission. The New York Times bestselling book Radical Remission offers an enlightened perspective on the radical concept of cancer remission by Kelly Turner PhD, . . . → Read More: Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds 
Waiting for Cancer to Come weaves together women’s beliefs and experiences of genetic testing and its impact on their lives, families, and futures. Their detailed accounts of how they prepared for testing, made sense of the results, and made decisions about what to do with the information and cope with the aftermath are a window . . . → Read More: Book Review: Waiting for Cancer to Come 
The first of its kind, a timely and much needed contribution to studies of this renowned body part and its cultural significance. . . .the Cultural Encyclopedia of the Breast is an essential, empowering resource for anyone interested in understanding the historical magnitude and cultural importance of the breast. — . . . → Read More: Book Review: Cultural Encyclopedia of the Breast “The Fault in Our Stars: Fictionalizing the Realities of Childhood Cancer” By Tricia Paul, Investigating Illness Narratives. “This is not so much an author’s note as an author’s reminder of what was printed in small type a few pages ago: This book is a work of fiction. I made it up.” . . . → Read More: The Fault in Our Stars: Fictionalizing the Realities of Childhood Cancer 
Ellen Leopold’s unique collection of essays over a 20-year period (many of them written before there was an audience ready to receive them) illustrates important shifts in the medical and social history of breast cancer. She skillfully threads her way through the writings of impactful women and the contexts in which they lived, chronicling the . . . → Read More: Book Review: My Soul Is Among Lions by Ellen Leopold 
Christopher Hitchens, a profound thinker and prolific author, writes his final book, Mortality (2012), about his life-ending illness. In describing the intimate experience of “livingly dying” with metastatic, esophageal cancer, Hitchens offers a highly personal narrative, sometimes poetic, and somewhat ironically, filled with humor. His fun and graceful use of language gives readers permission to . . . → Read More: Book Review: Mortality by Christopher Hitchens 
Hazel Grace Lancaster, sixteen, has thyroid cancer. The drug Phalanxifor is “miraculously” holding back the tumors that spread to her lungs, and the cylindrical green oxygen tank she hauls behind her is helping to keep her lungs operational. But Hazel’s life has narrowed. She’s been out of school for three years. Convinced that her daughter . . . → Read More: Book Review: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green 
A Breast Cancer Alphabet is approachable, even light. But it’s not fluffy. Each letter invites readers to think about the power and the limits of language, to start a new conversation about one of the most talked about, venerated, and commercialized diseases in American culture. — Gayle Sulik, Breast Cancer Consortium A Breast . . . → Read More: Book Review: “A Breast Cancer Alphabet” by Madhulika Sikka 
“Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us.” Nature, vol. 502, p. 167. “Patients with cancer generate so much revenue for the US health care industry that a cure would be an economic risk. thus argues anthropologist S. Lochlann Jain, who deems cancer “a constitutive aspect of American social life, economics, and science” — so bizarrely entwined that . . . → Read More: Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us 
“George Johnson’s ‘Cancer Chronicles.’” By David Quammen, The New York Times. Cancer would seem a dreary, frightful topic if it weren’t also such a universal one. In this era of longer human life spans, it’s almost as inevitable as death and taxes. Most of us will experience some form of cancer — if not in . . . → Read More: Lives of the Cells: George Johnson’s ‘Cancer Chronicles’ |
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