Survivor: Taking Control of Your Fight against Cancer

Landro, Laura

ISBN 10: 0684856786 / ISBN 13: 9780684856780

Published by Atria, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Survivor: Taking Control of Your Fight against Cancer
• Publisher: Atria
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684856786
• ISBN 13: 9780684856780
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Shortly after her thirty-seventh birthday, Wall Street Journal reporter and editor Laura Landro was told that she had chronic myelogenous leukemia. Survivor is the remarkable account of her battle against this devastating, potentially fatal cancer -- and her successful struggle to take control of her own case.
At first almost paralyzed with fear when diagnosed with this form of blood cancer, Landro resolved to use her journalistic training to seek out the treatment that would give her the best shot at surviving. Noting that most Americans spend more time researching what kind of car to buy than they do their health care, she shows how and why all patients can -- and must -- arm themselves with the facts, learn to understand medical jargon, get doctors to answer all their questions in layman's terms, weigh conflicting medical opinions, and make the difficult choice among the options open to them.
Landro's inspiring story offers all readers hope and the know-how to navigate the terrifying and bewildering world of medicine, even when they are very ill and at their most vulnerable.

About the Author

Laura Landro is a senior editor in charge of entertainment, media, and marketing coverage at The Wall Street Journal. She won the National Print Journalism Award from the Leukemia Society of America for her October 24, 1996, Wall Street Journal article, "A Survivor's Tale." She lives in New York City.