Sarah E McDonald

The Cancer Companion: A guide to getting your head and heart around your diagnosis and treatment is a compassionate guidebook written by a cancer patient for those newly-diagnosed cancer patients. The topics covered are those most pressing questions that newly-diagnosed individuals have when trying best to understand what is ahead of them. Topics covered are the emotional and physical challenges of a diagnosis as well as what to expect from scans, tests, and treatments (surgery, radiation, chemotherapy). The book is sprinkled with stories from the author's experience battling two cancers concurrently and includes honest (and sometimes funny) anecdotes.

If you're a cancer patient or know and love someone who is on this difficult journey, this book was written for you. In a voice that will make you feel you've met a new, fun friend, Sarah shares in vivid detail the events surrounding her year of cancer treatments. She touches on both the terror and the humor that can be found in the little moments that are part of fighting this awful disease. As a survivor and a champion determined to foster better understanding of the dos and don'ts with cancer patients, Sarah provides a story of hope to all who read this. At 44, Sarah McDonald was newly married, newly promoted, and planning pregnancy. It felt like a time of new beginnings in her life when suddenly she was diagnosed with a rare, incurable cancer. Two months later she was diagnosed with another, unrelated cancer. During this struggle, her father's cancer, ten years in remission, returned and added new challenges but also a cancer buddy to her world. Told in an honest and oftentimes vulnerable voice, Sarah recounts a year of difficult stories in lighthearted and humorous ways. Readers of this book will laugh and cry-and find it very difficult to set down.Sarah E. McDonald is two-time cancer survivor and one-time mother of daughter, Rory. She's spent the majority of her 30-year career in the technology industry, with 14 years at eBay, including the period while she was battling cancer. The Cancer Channel is her first book. To learn more, visit TheCancerChannelBook.com.