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Living Stronger, Longer
Curtis Pesmen
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Author Bio | Pesmen, veteran magazine editor/journalist (Esquire, GQ, SELF, Glamour, Redbook) and book author (How a Man Ages and What She Wants), was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer in 2001. As health/features editor of SELF, he helped develop the pink-ribbon breast cancer awareness campaign. An award-winning, seven-part series of his (so far) successful fight against colon cancer ran in Esquire. |
| ISBN | 978-0-966184-77-8 0-9661847-7-7 | |
| Category | HEALTH & FITNESS : Diseases Cancer | |
| Publication | March, 2004 | |
| Pages | 210 | |
| Size | 5.25 x 8.25 | |
| Price | $22.95 | |
| Binding | Hardcover | |
| Other Formats |
2-Disc CD, narrated by the author |
Inspired by an award-winning series of Esquire magazine articles on the author’s own survival of colon cancer, THE COLON CANCER SURVIVORS’ GUIDE shows how a person diagnosed with cancer stops becoming a patient and starts becoming a survivor.
The book draws on medical research, Pesmen's and other survivors' personal experiences, plus insights from renown health care professionals on how to help simplify and enrich life after cancer from the first CT follow-up scans to the hallowed five-year-cure finish line. 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.
It’s a new type of cancer book focusing on the survivors, not the patient as a target market. While it contains the grit, the personal, and the shock surrounding of the battling cancer, it also stresses the "new" (diet, treatment and other self-care) options of a modern colon cancer case. Written not only for survivors, but also for their family, friends, oncologists and other healthcare professionals.
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Preface by Lilly Tartikoff, co-founder with Katie Couric, of the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance). Foreword by Louise Bates, Chairperson, Colorectal Cancer Network.
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Insights/advice from wide source range, including top oncologists like Sidney Winawer, celebrity artist Sam Taylor-Wood and often-overlooked female survivors, who advise on women-specific issues.
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Addresses needs and issues of underserved areas: the ever-growing “cancer survivorship population”; younger survivors; and female survivors. Focuses on physical, spiritual and psychological needs.
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National tour launched in NYC (talks, signings) at bookstores, National Arts Club. Tour also to include San Francisco, Chicago, LA and Denver.
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March is National Colorectal Awareness Month, perfect timing for radio, print coverage (e.g., appearance on Katie Couric’s show a good prospect)
CURE magazine assigned author article for April 2005 issue, plus book excerpt. AARP magazine and Esquire to at least mention book in March/April issues.
Endorsements for
The Colon Cancer Survivors’ Guide
Reading Curtis’ accounts of his
experience, impressions and reactions has changed the way I practice medicine.
-- Mark Lane Welton, MD, Chief, Colon and Rectal Surgery,
Stanford University
School of Medicine
[The Colon Cancer Survivors’ Guide] is a great perspective
on what it is like to live through diagnosis and treatment for cancer.
It’s got many good resources for patients and family members as well. I
would recommend this book for people who are working in cancer control and to
people who are diagnosed with or caring for someone with cancer.”
--Margaret E. McCusker, M.D., M.S. Public
Health Medical Officer, Comprehensive Cancer Control Section, California
Department of Health Services
[The
Colon Cancer Survivors’ Guide] allows readers to “see” and “feel” what the
writer is expressing. The book also provides very practical, fact-based
information about diet, tips for caregivers, insurance, and questions to ask
healthcare providers.
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Barbara D. Powe, PhD, RN, Associate Editor, Oncology Nursing Forum, Oncology
Nursing Society
I think the book would be very
useful for colon and other cancer patients. It is an open, honest story of
living through the early phases of diagnosis and treatment. [Pesmen] expresses
the full range of emotions that we know most patients experience--but hearing
it from him as the person with cancer is touching, inspirational and
informative. Pesmen does a nice job of referencing credible
sources/resources…All in all, I think this would be a very useful resource for
cancer survivors.”
--June Ryan, MPA, Program Manager of the
Nebraska Comprehensive Cancer Control Program, “Nebraska C.A.R.E.S.” (Cancer
Awareness, Research, Education and Service, National Comprehensive Cancer
Control Programs)
--Melissa Weber, Managing Editor CURE magazine
Regardless of the type of cancer you
had or have, this guide is a window into a world best described as the “new
normal”
-- Louise Bates,
survivor/chairwoman, Colorectal Cancer Network
--Heidi Watts, Development, Colorectal Cancer Association of Canada (and colon cancer survivor)
At every possible level—emotional,
medical, and day-to-day practical—Pesmen provides exceptional insight, candor,
and reportorial tenacity….For those who marveled at the Lance Armstrong story,
it’s time to hear from another survivor...
--Todd Balf, author
of The Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la and The Darkest
Jungle
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