Based on his award-winning series of Esquire magazine articles on his own survival of colon cancer, the author shows how a person diagnosed with cancer stops becoming a patient and starts becoming a survivor. Above all, it offers advice on the healing of scars, both physical and emotional, how to leave cancer behind, and how to move confidently forward.Some 150,000 Americans are diagnosed with colon cancer each year. But, thankfully, with increased awareness and improved therapies, there’s also a growing population: the Colorectal Cancer Survivor. And as these survivors begin to live longer and stronger lives, a new set of post-treatment needs has arisen. THE COLON CANCER SURVIVORS’ GUIDE addresses these needs directly.
About the Author
Curtis Pesmen is author of How a Man Ages, What She Wants and Your First Year of Marriage, and has written for Esquire, GQ, SELF, Glamour, Redbook and Outside magazines. As health/features editor of SELF magazine, he helped develop the internationally recognized, pink-ribbon breast cancer awareness campaign. An award-winning, seven-part series of Pesmen’s (so far) successful fight against colon cancer was featured in Esquire magazine in 2001 and 2003. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife and three-year old son.
- Title: The Colon Cancer Survivors' Guide: Living Stronger, Longer
- Author: Curtis Pesmen
- Hardcover: 232 pages
- Publisher: Tatra Press (March 25, 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0966184777
- ISBN-13: 978-0966184778
- Book Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 1 inches
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