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Summary: Mandatory Reading
Review: Best book I've read for dealing with cancer. I think all cancer patients should read it - wish I'd had it five years ago when I was taking treatments. All cancer centers should have a copy of this book in their library and/or should give a copy to each patient. The American Cancer Society should recommend this book. Can't begin to say enough good things about it.
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Summary: There's No Place Like Hope
Review: I am a Breast Surgeon. I found the thoughts that Vickie Girard had helped me to look at breast cancer differently. Patients can obtain significant support and great advice from someone like the author who has been through metastatic breast cancer treatment and has survived. It has changed my way of practice and will change the way women choose to receive their care.
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Summary: I have nothing to prove
Review: listen, I'd like to beleive in this as much as anyone else, but this book will not change anything. Cancer is not evil, it just is, just like the universe itself, and it won't accomodate humanity for it's own sake. You simply cannot appeal to hope in a world where hope doesn't exist. Now you could find every possible extraneous reason why I would say something like this, and you could be right on every account, but it's horribly compelling
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Summary: The title says it all
Review: My mother-in-law, a wonderful person very near and dear to me, was diagnosed with breast cancer, and is on her way to overcoming this challenge. I found this book for both her and my wife...the two are as close as any mother and daughter could be, and I know it's been incredibly hard on both of them in different ways.
I read this myself, before passing it on the them; in fact, I read it in the matter of one evening, and found it very hard to put down until the very last page. I found it so full of inspiration and positive thinking that I would go as far to say it's a worthwhile read for anyone who might be facing challenges in life...I know I found a great deal of comfort in her words.
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Summary: Wish I'd had this 2 years ago
Review: Thank God for Vickie Gerard and this wonderful book. I was diaognosed 21/2 years ago with Lymphoma, Hodgkins Disease. I went through the first 6 treatments and was told I was "clean". Two months later it was back and I was given less than a 4% chance to survive IF I could get through the chemo before I had the bone marrow transplant!! Yes Vickie talks a great deal about CANCER TREATMENT CENTERS OF AMERICA, thats where she was treated, and I went there too. Needless to say 2 years later and I'm still here, and cancer free. I can relate to most of everything she says in the book and if my caregivers had had this knowledge when I was so sick, we all could have saved a lot of tears and known what to do with some of the feelings that go along with the patient and those close to the patient. I recommend this book for all who know of/or are the one with cancer. It can answer just about every question one can think of and then some. Thank You Vickie for writing this book, and my God bless you now and always.
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Summary: Hope & Attitude are Key Survival Tools
Review: This book is a help for both hope & attitude. This disease requires fight and determination. I have had breast cancer for 12 years(with a dismal initial prognosis) and this is one of the best books on the subject I have read. I'm on my 5th copy because I keep giving them away.
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Summary: Hope & Attitude are Key Survival Tools
Review: This book is a help for both hope & attitude. This disease requires fight and determination. I have had breast cancer for 12 years(with a dismal initial prognosis) and this is one of the best books on the subject I have read. I'm on my 5th copy because I keep giving them away.
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Summary: no pace like hope
Review: This book was so uplifting and informative. I sat down to read it and didn't stop until I was finished with the entire book. My Sister has breast cancer and I found so much "HOPE" inside this little book. I bought the book for my Sis and sent it to her after I read it. Hopefully, she was as impressed with it as I was.
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Summary: There is No Place Like Hope..........
Review: Vickie Girard has written a wonderful, instructional book, which will become a tremendous asset for all of us who are fighting cancer (myself included). Her analogies and anecdotes are well put and well received. Vickie has been challenged in every way-from the terror of a cancer diagnosis, to life-and-death insurance issues and everything in between! What is most remarkable is that she has decided to tell her story with the hope that she will help others. However, while reading "There is No Place Like Hope," I could not help but to conclude that it is, in large part, a marketing tool designed to attract patients to Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA). Vickie was treated at one of the organization's hospitals. While I appreciate Vickie's opinions regarding CTCA, I question her statement indicating that this organization attracts and employs the "best and the brightest" in cancer care. I was treated for breast cancer at a CTCA hospital. Since the conclusion of my treatment at CTCA more than 10 years ago, I have been re-diagnosed with breast cancer twice. In the labyrinth of hospitals, clinics and physicians I have encountered during my own treatment odyssey, I strongly believe that the best and the brightest cancer experts are located in research hospitals where there is an all-out commitment to cutting-edge, new cancer therapies. Oncology physicians at these centers do not merely read about and indicate treatment protocols for their patients, they are in the laboratories developing and perfecting them. These physicians are educated at the best-known colleges and universities worldwide. They teach, lecture and are actively and aggressively attempting to make a difference in the lives of people victimized by cancer. I am not sure that this is part of CTCA's approach to cancer treatment. Vickie's story is remarkable and should be shared with everyone - not just those touched by cancer. She is an inspiration to all people, everywhere. My advice to readers of Vickie Girard's book is to look beyond the marketing ploys of CTCA and revel in the wisdom, humor and real-life coping strategies which Vickie so thoughtfully and eloquently puts into words.....
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Summary: There is No Place Like Hope..........
Review: Vickie Girard has written a wonderful, instructional book, which will become a tremendous asset for all of us who are fighting cancer (myself included). Her analogies and anecdotes are well put and well received. Vickie has been challenged in every way-from the terror of a cancer diagnosis, to life-and-death insurance issues and everything in between! What is most remarkable is that she has decided to tell her story with the hope that she will help others. However, while reading "There is No Place Like Hope," I could not help but to conclude that it is, in large part, a marketing tool designed to attract patients to Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA). Vickie was treated at one of the organization's hospitals. While I appreciate Vickie's opinions regarding CTCA, I question her statement indicating that this organization attracts and employs the "best and the brightest" in cancer care. I was treated for breast cancer at a CTCA hospital. Since the conclusion of my treatment at CTCA more than 10 years ago, I have been re-diagnosed with breast cancer twice. In the labyrinth of hospitals, clinics and physicians I have encountered during my own treatment odyssey, I strongly believe that the best and the brightest cancer experts are located in research hospitals where there is an all-out commitment to cutting-edge, new cancer therapies. Oncology physicians at these centers do not merely read about and indicate treatment protocols for their patients, they are in the laboratories developing and perfecting them. These physicians are educated at the best-known colleges and universities worldwide. They teach, lecture and are actively and aggressively attempting to make a difference in the lives of people victimized by cancer. I am not sure that this is part of CTCA's approach to cancer treatment. Vickie's story is remarkable and should be shared with everyone - not just those touched by cancer. She is an inspiration to all people, everywhere. My advice to readers of Vickie Girard's book is to look beyond the marketing ploys of CTCA and revel in the wisdom, humor and real-life coping strategies which Vickie so thoughtfully and eloquently puts into words.....
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