Heidi Di Adams, Christopher Schultz

Planet Cancer (eBook, PDF)

The Frequently Bizarre Yet Always Informative Experiences and Thoughts of Your Fellow Natives

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Tapping the collective wisdom of the young adult cancer community

Each year, nearly 70,000 young adults between 18 and 40 are diagnosed in the United States with cancer. While there are many sources of information for patients, the special concerns of this age group are rarely discussed. One remarkable exception is PlanetCancer.org. For nearly a decade, those in this "gap" age have sought out this online community for resources, networks, and support from those who have been there and done that.

Planet Cancer is an honest, down-to-earth guide to living in this new world, from Diagnosis to Post-Treatment. Each chapter is informed by Planet Cancer's voice-authoritative, funny, friendly, no-nonsense. Experts address issues from all sides around bedrock "What It's Really Like" essays: deeply personal, unflinching, and often hilarious pieces written by people who actually experienced on Planet Cancer things like banking sperm, adopting a child, or undergoing brain radiation. The book, enlivened with quotes and real-life stories from Planet Cancer members, gives the uninitiated a sense of community and removes some of the mystery and fear of the unknown.

Planet Cancer is now a LIVESTRONG initiative.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780762766659
• Artikelnr.: 41665711

Autorenporträt

Heidi Schultz Adams is the founder and executive director of Planet Cancer, a community of advocacy and support for young adults with cancer, which she launched in 2001 after her own treatment at 26 for a rare type of bone cancer called Ewing's sarcoma. She founded Planet Cancer in response to her personal experience of the void in information and support services for younger adults under 40. She is a founding member and the advocacy chair of the Lance Armstrong Foundation's LiveSTRONG Young Adult Alliance, a national coalition of more than 100 organizations dedicated to improving survival rates and quality of life for young adults with cancer. In 2005, she received the prestigious LiveSTRONG Award, and in 2006, she was named a Swiffer Amazing Woman of the Year. In 2007, she was named one of four national Health Heroes by WebMD magazine and, in 2009, she will be awarded the Lane Adams Quality of Life Award by the national American Cancer Society, given "to recognize and reward individuals who innovatively and consistently provide excellent and compassionate skilled care, counsel, and/or service to persons with cancer and their families." A writer by profession, Heidi is also a contributor and editorial advisor to CURE magazine and is the co-author of Here and Now: Inspiring Stories of Cancer Survivors, published in 2001 by Avalon and featured in O: The Oprah Magazine. Christopher Schultz's fiction and nonfiction has appeared in Esquire, The New York Times, Men's Journal, ESPN The Magazine, Spin, Shenandoah, and other publications. He is co-author of The Yo Momma Vocabulary Builder, a book featured in Newsweek and on ABC News that teaches SAT words by using "Yo momma" jokes. Christopher is the founder of Start Here Project Development, which helps businesses, nonprofits, and universities bring their ideas to reality through strategy and fundraising, and strengthens these entities' communications via marketing and editing.

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