Fighting Chance: Journeys Through Childhood Cancer

$44.00
by Harry Connolly

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Containing 200 images, this book follows courageous patients, strong families, and brilliant caregivers battling cancer in and out of the hospital. Photographed over the course of three years, it includes contributions from best-selling author Tom Clancy and Dr. Curt Civin, Director of Johns Hopkins Hospital's Pediatric Oncology Unit. Other insight comes from nurses, parents, siblings, and the children themselves. Not only is the book a learning tool, it attests to the fact that today more and more children survive their cancer. Features and reviews include NBC "Today Show" and MSNBC website; "The March...Coming Together to Conquer Cancer" rally in Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles Times; Leukemia Society of America website; Photo District News and Nikon World; Baltimore Sun; Johns Hopkins Magazine; Family Life; Maryland Family Magazine; Baltimore Jewish Times; Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation newsletter; "Pediatric Nursing" journal; "OncoLink" website. Midwest Book Review called it a "brilliant showcase of the human spirit" and Ken Barun, President and CEO of the Ronald McDonald House Charities, said, "The photographs in the book capture so beautifully the despair, the fear, the hope, and the joy of these children that we see so often." From Tom Clancy's introduction: This book is about the worst and nastiest [war] of all. The enemy is pediatric cancer, and everyone in these photos is fighting the disease in one way or another.... The truth of the matter is that in the worst places the best of us stand and fight.

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