After nearly three decades of providing medical care for women and
men facing breast cancer, surgeon S. David Nathanson calls the
survival rates today an ordinary miracle. Ordinary because the vast
majority of patients now do live at least 20 years after diagnosis
due to enormous progress that has been made in medicine; and a
miracle too because of the intangible qualities such as faith and
hope that seem key to success in battling the disease. In this
book, survivors describe their experiences, emotions, and means to
overcome the disease. S. David Nathanson is an esteemed, longtime
surgeon who calls the survival rates today for women and men facing
breast cancer nothing short of an ordinary miracle. Ordinary
because the vast majority of patients live at least two decades
after diagnosis, due to great advances that have been made in early
detection, surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. But also a miracle
because we know that key elements for a woman or man succeeding in
a personal battle against breast cancer include completely
intangible qualities of courage, fortitude, trust, persistence,
faith, and hope. Although science cannot completely explain it, a
supportive network of family and friends with those qualities also
empower patient survival and recovery. In these pages, Nathanson
shares stories from his patients, teaching us about the experience
of breast cancer and explaining how they found and fueled the will
and power to defeat the disease. Even surgeon Nathanson himself
cannot fully describe what goes through the hearts and minds of
breast cancer patients as they discover, deal with, and finally
triumph over the diagnosis. So in this book he acts as a narrator,
letting his ordinary yet miraculous cancer survivors tell their
stories, certainly filled with fear of the known and unknown, and
with pain, but opening up to courage, love, sometimes humor, and
finally hope. It is hope that firms up their resilience; hope that
initiates their fortitude. Hope is an important component of
healing, says the surgeon. Seventy-one survivors, including one
man, tell their stories to ilustrate every step of the experience.
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