The Insider’s Guide to Cancer in Your 20s and 30s
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“In a world of cheap optimism, bumper stickers and T-shirt sayings, Everything Changes is the real thing — gritty and funny and heartbreaking.”
—Ruth Pennebaker, Acclaimed young adult novelist and essayist
“I finished Everything Changes believing that Kairol Rosenthal is one of the bravest people I know, because it takes real courage, when you are still down in the trenches yourself, to be this brutally honest and uncompromising in exploring the young adult cancer experience.”
—Heidi Adams, Founder and Executive Director of Planet Cancer
“One of the best books I have ever read about cancer. Buy it. It’s worth it.”
—Elizabeth Daniels, Editor In Chief, Waiting Room Magazine
“This book should be read by every endocrinologist, oncologist, surgeon, and nuclear medicine physician that is caring for young patients with cancer.”
— R. Michael Tuttle, MD , Professor of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
“After my 18+ years of reading self-help “cancer lit,” I find most new books either textbooky-boring or exasperatingly unscientific. In Everything Changes, Kairol Rosenthal writes like a best-selling novelist and teaches like an experienced professor. I reread sentences just to enjoy their poetry.”
— Wendy S. Harpham, MD , Survivor, Best-Selling Author, Columnist for Oncology Times
“Kairol Rosenthal is a quintessential warrior, fighting not only for her own life, but for all of us who’ve been kicked by cancer. It’s not just the survivors on the pages of Everything Changes who bear listening to; It’s Kairol, too, who’s clever, funny, as well as unabashedly honest and extremely knowledgeable, providing extensive tips and resources.”
—Lori Hope, Author of Help Me Live: 20 Things People with Cancer Want You to Know
“If you know anyone with cancer under 40 you must get Everything Changes for them. I only wish this book had come out a couple of years ago; it would have saved me a lot on therapy.”
—Kate Burton, Writer/Blogger, After Cancer, Now What?
About the book…
On a shoe-string budget and with tape recorder in hand, Kairol Rosenthal emerged from treatment and hit the road in search of other twenty- and thirty-something cancer survivors. From the Big Apple to the Bible Belt, she dusts the sugar coating off of the young adult cancer experience, exposing the gritty and compelling stories of twenty-five complete strangers.
The men and women in Everything Changes confess their most vulnerable moments, revealing cancer experiences they never told anyone else – what they thought about at night before going to bed, what they wish they could tell their lovers but were too afraid to. With irreverent flare and practical wisdom, Everything Changes includes stories, how-to resources, and expert advice on must-know issues including:
- Dating and sex
- Medical insurance and the healthcare system
- Faith and spirituality
- Employment and career
- Fertility, adoption, and parenting
- Friends and family
- Clinical trials and alternative medicine
- College life and scholarships
- Young adult caregiving
“Everything Changes is, without doubt, the most forthright, emotionally sophisticated, and plain-old valuable book of its kind I've seen.”
