After Cancer : Guide to Your New Life. A
As anyone who has been diagnosed with cancer knows, surviving cancer is more than just killing cancer cells and getting through treatment. Patients must deal with the emotional, social, spiritual, and financial fallout of a cancer diagnosis. By helping survivors understand that they can’t go back to where they were before cancer, Dr. Wendy Harpham liberates them to move forward to a different, “new normal.” In a reader-friendly, question-and-answer format, Dr. Harpham (herself a cancer survivor)
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Two years after she underwent a mastectomy and chemotherapy, Barbara Bradfield’s aggressive breast cancer had recurred and spread to her lungs. The outlook was grim. Then she took part in Genentech’s clinical trials for a new drug. Five years later she remains cancer-free.
Her-2 is the biography of Herceptin, the drug that provoked dramatic responses in Barbara Bradfield and other women in the trials and that offers promise for hundreds of thousands of breast cancer patien
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A Wonderful Book,
I believe that only cancer survivors can make a pertinent review this book.
I strongly recommend it to anyone who is a cancer survivor, or anybody who wants to try to understand a friend or relative who has had cancer.
The author, Wendy Harpham, is a cancer survivor. She is also a medical doctor. She writes from both perspectives. This makes her book not only informative, but also full of empathy.
It made me cry. It made me laugh. It made me realize that there is “a life after cancer” and that, as Wendy suggests, I can “make it a good one.”
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|Thorough but conventional,
This book took on a huge topic: the period after cancer. There is too much in this topic to cover in one book. Dr Harpham did a thorough job with the areas that she focused on. Her question-and-answer format made the book easy to flip through– it does not require cover-to-cover reading, which is excellent for slow readers like me.
Rather than using dozens of heart-warming examples of survivorship as in other books, Dr Harpham gives the information in a more linear, factual way. This is good for people who don’t want gloss but just the straight facts (I personally would have enjoyed more stories and to hear her own voice come through). She touches on many real-life issues that most other books don’t address such as radiation-related tooth cavities and risks of potential birth problems in pregnant cancer survivors. For this information alone the book is worth the purchase.
My only issue is that the book sticks with the popular, conventional, let’s-not-rock-the-boat approach of the American Cancer Society. Such as when she puts “avoid sun exposure” at the top of a prevention recommendations list, without acknowledging the tremendous cancer-protective effects of vitamin D and the fundamental fact that all life comes from sunlight. Complementary/Alternative medicine is quickly presented with warnings of how dangerous it is, while the horrible toxicities and lethal side effects of conventional medicine are addressed with an assumption of acceptance.
To cover both conventional and CAM topics in one book would make an exceptionally thick book. If you are looking for information beyond the conventional medical model, you would do better with books by Patrick Quillin or Ralph Moss. But if you trust the conventional system, then this book is an excellent resource to get you through the after cancer period.
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|I Found This Book Very Helpful,
I found it very helpful to have a resource such as this book by Wendy Harpham when I finished my cancer treatments. The book helped me understand what I was feeling and why. I am now 3 years out and have just finished rereading the book. It has helped me, again, in my “new life” after cancer. I found that the book accurately explained the emotions I had been confronting. I highly recommend the book and believe that her book is a must read for any cancer survivor who has finished treatment, especially if you have just completed treatment, but even if it was years ago.
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|Good to the Last Page,
I had to read this book for my Biotechnology class and although I am close to failing it I found Her-2 to be pretty exciting book.
Her-2 by Bazell and King is about breast cancer, however, it reveals many other interesting things about the drug industry and how progress is made in the medical research field. There are different stories and view points and the authors have succesfully managed to combine all this into a book that both teaches and thrills us. I recommend this book to everyone who wants to learn more about breast cancer and about the insights of creating and bringing to the market a revolutionary drug – from selection of the trial patients to the President’s office.
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|Cheers to Bazell,
Bazell uncovers emotions and stories from patients, advocates/lobbyists, scientists and family members. It is a very moving story — be sure to have tissues nearby as you read through the Phase I trials.
It could be more well-rounded and present ideas from Genentech’s viewpoint as well, and it does end faster than it should. If Bazell or anyone tackles an epilogue to Her-2, I would be the first in line to buy it.
Kudos. A must read for ALL WOMEN.
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|A Her-2 Victim’s Review,
I cried and rejoiced all through this book, which I finished today. I knew very little about my condition, which is Her2neu +3 positivity, the highest level of Her2, until I read it. My first oncologist wanted to keep me in the dark, and if it weren’t for folks like Mr. Bazzell, I would still be in the dark. I now have the ammunition I need to be more active in my treatment options. I also am so thankful to read about the discovery of this oncogene, and cannot express adequately enough my gratitude to one of the main subjects of this book, Dennis Salmon, for his dedication to the discovery of Her2 and all he has done to get the drug, Herceptin on the market. Anyone who overexpresses Her2neu must have this book. This breast cancer is phenomenally deadly, and more able to recur and can spread like wildfire, even during chemotherapy and radiation, so thank goodness now I know, from reading this, what can happen, and what needs to be done.
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