"You can run, but you can't hide" is the start of this insightful memoir down the Breast Cancer Freeway. Author/survivor DebiLyn Smith says she is your horrible warning. "Don't be naive like I was. Stop running from cancer. Learn to stand and fight back. The earlier you start fighting cancer, the more hope you have. Right now would be a good time."
"There is no age restriction with cancer. You only have to be alive to grow it. You only have to be dead to get away from it completely."
"Fifty percent of cancers are preventable. By lessening your 'cancer lottery tickets' you have hope of avoiding this path.
"Don't wait to see what wearing someone else's hair feels like..."
Running From Cancer: a tilted memoir is a journey of information showing why you don't want to travel this road, complete with simple tips, recipes, books and websites to check. It's inspirational, while humorously enlightening.
"Fantastic. SO well written.It's really, really, really good." Betsy Trumpener CBC Daybreak North
"Insightful." "Running From Cancer is littered with funny anecdotes." Charlie Smith Health Writer Georgia Straight
