{"product_id":"9781623098254","title":"Unchartered Journey: Our Decade Living With Breast Cancer","description":"The everyday reality of living with Stage IV (also known as\u003cbr\u003emetastatic or advanced) cancer is not something you will hear about on\u003cbr\u003ethe evening news. Nor will it make the front page of the New York\u003cbr\u003eTimes. Instead, you will hear or read about the latest medical\u003cbr\u003e“breakthrough,” regardless of whether there is any significant scientific\u003cbr\u003eevidence of efficacy, of benefit over a similar drug. What those of us\u003cbr\u003ewho read the fine print of such articles, work in the cancer field, or\u003cbr\u003eparticipate in a drug trial learn is that these therapies generally carry an\u003cbr\u003eenormous price, both personal and financial, affecting most intimately the\u003cbr\u003eperson receiving treatment and their loved ones, but also society at large.\u003cbr\u003eIndeed, conventional cancer treatments and trials are trials to patients and\u003cbr\u003efamilies, not only physically, but also psychologically and emotionally.\u003cbr\u003eThis is not something many doctors talk about or care to hear about from\u003cbr\u003epatients. Descriptions of emotional and existential pain, and the\u003cbr\u003eunpleasant, intrusive side-effects of personal and familial suffering, such\u003cbr\u003eas fear, anger, and uncertainty, does not make it into the patient’s clinical\u003cbr\u003echart. One person, in a recent cancer support group, compared the long\u003cbr\u003eterm impact of living with metastatic breast cancer to the symptoms of\u003cbr\u003ePTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). The term survivor, applied to\u003cbr\u003eanyone who has ever had a cancer diagnosis and is still living, is apropos\u003cbr\u003eto people surviving the extreme ups and downs of treatment. In this\u003cbr\u003esense, family members and significant others are survivors too. As with\u003cbr\u003eother crises that threaten our sense of safety and security, bonds either\u003cbr\u003estrengthen or break. For individuals and relationships that survive\u003cbr\u003ecancer, as not all do, it is a shared journey.","brand":"BookBaby","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47113533980912,"sku":"9781623098254","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781623098254_p0.jpg?v=1763860102","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781623098254","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}