Surviving Cancer After Surviving Cancer

Kevin L. Murphy

ISBN 10: 0938467409 / ISBN 13: 9780938467403

Published by Headline Books, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Surviving Cancer After Surviving Cancer
• Publisher: Headline Books
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0938467409
• ISBN 13: 9780938467403
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Winner International Book Awards--Health-Cancer
Mom's Choice Award Gold Honoree Adult Books-Life's Transitions
Indie Book Awards Finalist Best Health/Wellness
Indie Book Awards Finalist Best Self Help
New York Book Festival Honorable Mention
USA News Best Book Award Finalist-Best in Health-Cancer

Foreword by Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.

"You have cancer." Every day, over three thousand people hear these words, and their lives and relationships change forever. With each passing year, we learn more about prevention and treatment of cancer. A cancer diagnosis is no longer tantamount to a death sentence. With treatment, people are living longer, and better, even after the cruel hand of cancer clamps their shoulders.

But what about after treatment? For many couples and families, even after successful treatment of cancer, the end of one battle signals the beginning of another, when a clean bill of physical health comes with a hefty price tag, and ends up costing the end of a marriage or relationship.

Kevin Murphy's searing and devastatingly honest story, Surviving Cancer after Surviving Cancer, offers a unique perspective on this all too common phenomenon, when cancer (or any life-threatening illness) erodes the foundation of a once happy, thriving relationship. It offers the hard won wisdom of a husband who stood by his cancer stricken wife as she endured immense physical and emotional suffering, and beat the cancer that threatened her life and their unborn child, only to succumb to a painful divorce less than a decade later. Part memoir, part self-help primer, Surviving Cancer after Surviving Cancer is a wakeup call to couples and families whose lives have been decimated by disease. It seeks to bridge the emotional gap that too often isolates citizens of sickness from their spouses, families, and friends.

About the Author

Kevin L. Murphy, a former union truck driver and teacher, is an accomplished courtroom lawyer and speaker. Kevin received his law degree in 1981, and was a former columnist before writing this book. His story has helped countless people cope with cancer and their relationships.

Kevin is the founder of The Phyllis Foundation, a non-profit whose primary charitable focus is to get this book and its message to cancer patients everywhere. Kevin is the proud father of two wonderful daughters, Elizabeth and Kathleen Murphy.