What is Cancer Happens? Rebecca Gifford was a young adult, fresh out of college and eager to begin an exciting new job when she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. During the next two years, Rebecca endured chemotherapy, a bone marrow transplant, the loss of her independence and the near-collapse of both her career and her social life. With a little humor and lot of frankness, Rebecca tells it like it was -- hair loss, confinement, therapy groups, lack of sex, relationship challenges, family strain, funerals, morphine, premature menopause, professional humiliation, and more.

Coming of Age As she is trying just to live long enough to come of age, she's faced with many of the issues other twentysomethings endure whether they have cancer or not. Like her peers, she desperately tries to figure out what kind of adult she wants to be. But she has to try to figure out who she is both with and without cancer -- and then recognize the difference.


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