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My Cancer Year

Working with director Aly Nicklas (Knee Deep), we distilled 175 pages of "family medical memoir" to 2:58 minutes, to create this trailer for my latest book (2014).

Working with director Aly Nicklas (Knee Deep), we distilled 175 pages of "family medical memoir" to 2:58 minutes, to create a trailer for my latest book (2014).

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Survivorship Memoir: My Cancer Year

A guide for the fast-growing group of survivors.

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In MY CANCER YEAR, Curtis Pesmen, a veteran health journalist and book author, chronicles his successful fight with advanced colon cancer in a brutally honest and illuminating memoir. Through this moving account--which takes the reader through his initial shock of diagnosis, through treatment, experimental surgery and finally recovery--Pesmen's insights and experiences cast light on how to manage the challenges of cancer people don't like to talk about. This intimate memoir of a successful fight helps the fast-growing group of survivors--as well as family and friends--put cancer in its place while moving forward with the power of new knowledge.

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