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Breast cancer is an issue that has touched me and many others in the Latino community personally. A new book out hopes to appeal to all women struggling with this disease. I Am Not My Breast Cancer: Women Talk Openly About Love and Sex, Hair Loss and Weight Gain, Mothers and Daughters, and Being a Woman with Breast Cancer by Ruth Peltason is a hardcover self-help book meant to act as a friend throughout all the different stages and challenges women with breast cancer have to confront. I loved the way that the book was organized, chronologically through the stages of diagnosis, treatment, recovery, and self-discovery. I also liked that this book wasn’t about one expert talking to those struggling with breast cancer. It was the unique and diverse voices of 800 women—from every state in the nation and from continents as far away as Australia and Africa speaking their truths about how they dealt with everything from how they were told about their diagnosis to facing mortality.

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