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Promise Me

How a Sister's Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer

By: Nancy G. Brinker,Joni Rodgers

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Promise Me

How a Sister's Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer

By: Nancy G. Brinker,Joni Rodgers

Suzy and Nancy Goodman were more than sisters. They were best friends, confidantes, and partners in the grand adventure of life. For three decades, nothing could separate them. Not college, not marriage, not miles. Then Suzy got sick. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1977; three agonizing years later, at thirty-six, she died. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The Goodman girls were raised in postwar Peoria, Illinois, by parents who believed that small acts of charity could change the world. Suzy was the big sister—the homecoming queen with an infectious enthusiasm and a generous heart. Nancy was the little sister—the tomboy with an outsized sense of justice who wanted to right all wrongs. The sisters shared makeup tips, dating secrets, plans for glamorous fantasy careers. They spent one memorable summer in Europe discovering a big world far from Peoria. They imagined a long life together—one in which they’d grow old together surrounded by children and grandchildren. Suzy’s diagnosis shattered that dream. In 1977, breast cancer was still shrouded in stigma and shame. Nobody talked about early detection and mammograms. Nobody could even say the words “breast” and “cancer” together in polite company, let alone on television news broadcasts. With Nancy at her side, Suzy endured the many indignities of cancer treatment, from the grim, soul-killing waiting rooms to the mistakes of well-meaning but misinformed doctors. That’s when Suzy began to ask Nancy to promise. To promise to end the silence. To promise to raise money for scientific research. To promise to one day cure breast cancer for good. Big, shoot-for-the-moon promises that Nancy never dreamed she could fulfill. But she promised because this was her beloved sister. I promise, Suzy. . . . Even if it takes the rest of my life. Suzy’s death—both shocking and senseless—created a deep pain in Nancy that never fully went away. But she soon found a useful outlet for her grief and outrage. Armed only with a shoebox filled with the names of potential donors, Nancy put her formidable fund-raising talents to work and quickly discovered a groundswell of grassroots support. She was aided in her mission by the loving tutelage of her husband, restaurant magnate Norman Brinker, whose dynamic approach to entrepreneurship became Nancy’s model for running her foundation. Her account of how she and Norman met, fell in love, and managed to achieve the elusive “true marriage of equals” is one of the great grown-up love stories among recent memoirs. Nancy’s mission to change the way the world talked about and treated breast cancer took on added urgency when she was herself diagnosed with the disease in 1984, a terrifying chapter in her life that she had long feared. Unlike her sister, Nancy survived and went on to make Susan G. Komen for the Cure into the most influential health charity in the country and arguably the world. A pioneering force in cause-related marketing, SGK turned the pink ribbon into a symbol of hope everywhere. Each year, millions of people worldwide take part in SGK Race for the Cure events. And thanks to the more than $1.5 billion spent by SGK for cutting-edge research and community programs, a breast cancer diagnosis today is no longer a death sentence. In fact, in the time since Suzy’s death, the five-year survival rate for breast cancer has risen from 74 percent to 98 percent. Promise Me is a deeply moving story of family and sisterhood, the dramatic “30,000-foot view” of the democratization of a disease, and a soaring affirmative to the question: Can one person truly make a difference?

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0307718131

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Promise Me

How a Sister's Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer

By: Nancy G. Brinker,Joni Rodgers

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How a Sister's Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer

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Winning the Race

Taking Charge of Breast Cancer : My Personal Story and Every Woman's Guide to Wellness

By: Nancy G. Brinker,Chriss Anne Winston

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Taking Charge of Breast Cancer : My Personal Story and Every Woman's Guide to Wellness

By: Nancy G. Brinker,Chriss Anne Winston

This is the moving story of Nancy Brinker and her journey to create a world without breast cancer. It chronicles the sad and painful loss of Suzy, her sister, and the evolution of the Komen Foundation from a handful of volunteers in Nancy Brinker's living room to a multi-million dollar international foundation. But this book is so much more. It is a 'comforting friend' for every woman who has been diagnosed with breast cancer or who fears she might be -- it is a survival guide filled with the latest breast cancer prevention, detection and treatment information in an easy-to-read style, packed with Nancy's own 'take charge of your life' insights culled from more than two decades of patient advocacy.

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Tapestry Press (TX)

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1930819056

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Woman's Day's 1000 Questions about Women's Health

By: Nancy Brinker,H. Jane Chihal

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Woman's Day's 1000 Questions about Women's Health

By: Nancy Brinker,H. Jane Chihal

1000 Questions About Women's Health explains the many details about women's health--from pre-adolescence on--in an easy-to-follow question-and-answer format. 50 illustrations.

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1565302648

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A Matter of Heart

One Woman's Triumph Over Breast Cancer and a Heart Transplant

By: Nancy Shank Pedder

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A Matter of Heart

One Woman's Triumph Over Breast Cancer and a Heart Transplant

By: Nancy Shank Pedder

An inspirational story about courage, family love, and the sheer will to overcome incredible medical odds. A Matter of Heart is a treasure because it is a powerful story that educates the reader about the succesful process of organ donation.

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Emerson-Adams Press

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1892803240

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Dr. Nancy Snyderman's Guide to Good Health

What Every Forty-plus Woman Should Know about Her Changing Body

By: Nancy L. Snyderman,Margaret Blackstone

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Dr. Nancy Snyderman's Guide to Good Health

What Every Forty-plus Woman Should Know about Her Changing Body

By: Nancy L. Snyderman,Margaret Blackstone

It's undeniable. Your body is changing. It's no longer responding the way you expect, the way it always has in the past. You're starting to worry about heart disease, osteoporosis, even menopause. Your old methods for dealing with issues like skin care or sexuality are no longer quite so effective. That old biological clock keeps steadily ticking away." "And yet you don't feel as old as society seems to think you are. You're still full of sass and vitality, barely middle-aged. But all those minor aches, persistent pains, chronic diseases, and numerous other conditions of your over-forty body demand attention. Are you overreacting to them? Or are you underplaying their importance?" "Dr. Nancy Snyderman knows exactly what you're going through. She is a practicing physician, the medical correspondent for ABC-TV's Good Morning America, and, most important, a woman. At age forty-three, she is the mother of three young children. She's asked all the questions about your changing health that you have. And now she's written a book that contains all the answers. As a doctor she has an intimate knowledge of the current medical system. As a female patient, she knows what you want from that system. And as a news correspondent, she knows the system's greatest strengths and its greatest weaknesses." "Dr. Nancy Snyderman's Guide to Good Health is a groundbreaker, brimming with wit, personality, and authority, and sprinkled with anecdotes from Dr. Snyderman's life. If you are a woman over forty years of age and you want to get the most out of a medical system that isn't custom-designed for you, this book will show you how."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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William Morrow

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068812979X

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Winning the Race

Taking Charge of Breast Cancer : My Personal Story and Every Woman's Guide to Wellness

By: Nancy G. Brinker,Chriss Anne Winston

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Taking Charge of Breast Cancer : My Personal Story and Every Woman's Guide to Wellness

By: Nancy G. Brinker,Chriss Anne Winston

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Book's by Nancy G. Brinker

Promise Me

Promise Me

Promise Me

Promise Me

Winning the Race

Winning the Race

Woman's Day's 1000 Questions about Women's Health

Woman's Day's 1000 Questions about Women's Health

A Matter of Heart

A Matter of Heart

Dr. Nancy Snyderman's Guide to Good Health

Dr. Nancy Snyderman's Guide to Good Health

Winning the Race

Winning the Race

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