Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors

Barbara Delinsky

Simon and Schuster, Sep 27, 2011 - Health & Fitness - 416 pages

From the New York Times bestselling author comes this newly revised compilation of practical advice and upbeat anecdotes from more than 300 breast cancer survivors—as well as their families and friends.

Barbara Delinsky's 1998 bestseller, COAST ROAD, featured a heroine who was a breast cancer survivor. To this day, it is the book that generates more mail than any of her others. That fact, combined with Barbara's ongoing commitment to breast cancer research, led her to her first book of nonfiction. Not a medical book -- there is no discussion of the pros and cons of a particular treatment or hospital or doctor -- UPLIFT is rather a collection of hundreds of pieces of practical and inspiring tidbits collected from survivors and their on everything from what kind of deodorant to use during radiation treatment to the best kinds of exercise aftloved ones. Think of it as "The Girlfriends' Guide" to breast cancer, with hints on everything from what kind of deodorant to use during radiation treatment to the best kinds of exercise after a mastectomy to how to tell the person you're most afraid to tell that you have cancer.

And as timeless as ever, this newly revised edition of UPLIFT contains the latest and most up-to-the-minute medical information, as well as new stories from inspiring cancer survivors.

Contents

• First Things First: 1
• Practical and Emotional: 21
• Soaking Up the Rays: 41
• Mane Matters: 57
• A Smorgasbord: 85
• Regaining Control: 102
• Our Inheritance: 125
• We Pick Em: 145
• Making It UserFriendly: 164
• From Traditional to Offbeat: 180
• You Gotta Laugh: 198
• By For and About: 212
• Making the Body Better: 237
• Come Again?: 250
• Bringing In the Big Gun: 269
• Wrapping It Up with a Bow: 277
• Five Years Later: 298
• Ten Years Later: 332
• Do We Want to Know?: 356
• What UPLIFT Does: 368
• Acknowledgments: 377
• List of Contributors: 381
• An Invitation from UPLIFT: 389

About the author

Barbara Delinsky was born on August 9, 1945 in suburban Boston. She received a B.A. in psychology from Tufts University and an M.A. in sociology from Boston College. After graduate school, she worked as a researcher with the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. After her first child was born, she worked as a photographer and reporter for the Belmont Herald. She has written more than 60 novels including Shades of Grace, Coast Road, While My Sister Sleeps and Not My Daughter. Some of her novels have been made into television movies including Three Wishes starring Valerie Bertinelli and A Woman's Place starring Lorraine Bracco. She wrote the nonfiction book Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors. She has also written under the pen names Bonnie Drake and Billie Douglass. Barbara's novels, Blueprints and Sweet Salt Air, made the New York Times bestseller list in 2015.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors
• Author: Barbara Delinsky
• Edition: reissue, annotated
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2011
• ISBN: 1451654677, 9781451654677
• Length: 416 pages
• Subjects: Health & Fitness / Diseases & Conditions / Cancer; Health & Fitness / General; Health & Fitness / Women's Health; Medical / Oncology / Breast Cancer; Self-Help / Personal Growth / Happiness