Founder of BreastCancerSisterhood.com Publishes Two Guide Books to Ease Path to Breast Cancer Survivorship

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"You want to be a hero? Then realize this is not about you. This is about your wife and family."

Austin, TX (PRWEB) August 18, 2010

Web entrepreneur, businesswoman and breast cancer survivor, Brenda Coffee, came out of her own cancer battle with a commitment to make the breast cancer journey easier and less frightening for the hundreds of thousands of women who are diagnosed annually. As part of her mission, Coffee has written two books, Breast Cancer Sisterhood: A Guide to Practical Information and Answers to Your Most Intimate Questions and Husbands and Heroes: A Guide to Help and Thank You for All You Do. The two books arm patients and their caregivers with a compassionate, often entertaining and practical guide through the fears, frustrations and numerous questions when dealing with breast cancer. The books echo the message of empowerment and hope provided by her website, http://breastcancersisterhood.com, a resource for all things related to living with and surviving breast cancer.

Breast Cancer Sisterhood: A Guide to Practical Information and Answers to Your Most Intimate Questions is co-authored by Barbra Swanson, ND, RD, LD. The book draws from Brenda's personal experiences, as well as offering professional guidance. With no subject off limits, the book covers topics such as successfully managing the doctor/patient relationship, counseling, treatment precautions, sex and intimacy, and exercise. As a survivor of more than 10 breast cancer surgeries and eight rounds of chemotherapy, Coffee also includes wisdom on chemo, radiation, side effects, and reconstructive surgery.

Husbands and Heroes: A Guide to Help and Thank You for All You Do caters specifically to husbands and caregivers and the crucial role they play. In her introductory letter, Coffee notes, "It is important for you to have an insight into what your wife is experiencing from someone who has been there. Although you may not think so now, this is not the end of your world, or hers." She also doles out tough love, "You want to be a hero? Then realize this is not about you. This is about your wife and family. If they cannot rely on you, who can?" The candid book covers sex/lack of sex, energy levels, support groups and numerous side effects from chemo and radiation. With 14 brief sections, Coffee wraps up her narrative with, "If You Read Nothing Else In This Book" which gets to the heart of the matter, "You are the intangible support that boosts her immune system, gives her hope and helps her make it from one day to the next." In this section she also emphasizes the caregiver's need for self-care in order to stay strong for the patient and family members.

The Breast Cancer Sisterhood book includes inspiring letters from Elizabeth Edwards and actor, Richard Roundtree. Edwards reminds readers that "Cancer doesn't have us. We have cancer. Cancer doesn't own us. We own us. We decide how we are going to face this disease, how we are going to live each day."

According to the American Cancer Society, approximately 250,000 new cases of breast cancer were diagnosed in 2009. In addition there are over 2.5 million existing breast cancer survivors in the U.S. alone, plus husbands, caregivers, family and friends, still in need of support. Cancer is a disease that affects the whole family, and Coffee discovered a huge market in need of practical, intimate information on how to live with and survive this often devastating disease.

Since newly diagnosed patients, husbands and caregivers are often scared and in a state of shock, Coffee deliberately kept each book under 100 pages, choosing only to highlight information crucial to her readers. Books may be purchased at BreastCancerSisterhood.com and Amazon.com with a portion of sales going to various non-profit breast cancer support organizations.

About BreastCancerSisterhood.com
Founded by cancer survivor Brenda Coffee, the Survivorship Media Network's Breast
Cancer Sisterhood.com® represents one sister reaching out to help and empower another by giving the gift of survivorship. The Breast Cancer Sisterhood's mission is to revolutionize the way life-saving information and support is disseminated to newly diagnosed breast cancer patients, existing survivors, patients with recurrence, husbands, caregivers, children and extended friends and family. While there are many Websites devoted to breast cancer, few are practical, straightforward and contain most of the information patients and families need. The site helps families cope with the ravaging physical and emotional effects of treatment and enables them to move forward with their lives.

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