I AM NOT MY BREAST CANCER

Ruth Peltason is a survivor. After undergoing treatment for breast cancer a second time, she wanted to find a way to combat the isolation someone in treatment can feel. First, she created an on-line forum called “First Person Plural”, where hundreds of women from every state and across the world shared their personal breast cancer stories. Now those stories have been put together in the book “I Am Not My Breast Cancer”. Dr. Nina Sax spoke with Ruth Peltason and asked how the book got it’s name.
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