Mark Liebenow

  Helen Valier, A History of Prostate Cancer, 2016, Palgrave MacMillan. This is the best book I’ve found that covers the scope of prostate ...

  When a friend received bad news about her cancer, I thought, “I’ll talk to the trees.” Bear with me for a moment. I used to light candles,...

 Kate Bowler, Everything Happens For a Reason And Other Lies I’ve Loved, 2018 Having cancer isn’t funny, but that doesn’t mean we have to s...

  Atul Gawande, Being Mortal, 2014; Complications , 2002; Rana Awdish, In Shock , 2017. Effective health care begins when patients feel the...

  If you’re a man, you have a 1 in 8 chance of developing prostate cancer at some point. (Women have a 1 in 8 chance of developing breast ca...

  Ilyse Kusnetz, Angel Bones, 2019, and Julie Hungiville LeMay, The Echo of Ice Letting Go, 2017 When we are dying from cancer and facing th...

  Margaret Edson, Wit, 1993 Margaret Edson wrote a play called Wit that talks about the experience of having cancer and going through chemot...

  I’m delighted that my short essay “After Cancer Treatment, a Restorative Touch,” on the healing power of therapeutic massage for cancer pa...

  By now you’ve heard that Joe Biden has prostate cancer. Even if you don’t know what this means, where the prostate is or what it does, you...

  Anne Boyer, The Undying, 2019 Anne Boyer’s book about surviving aggressive triple-negative breast cancer, The Undying, takes the reader in...