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Patting the Shark
A Surfer's Journey: Learning to Live Well with Cancer
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Penguin Random House Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 5D2P2V4
EAN: 9781760898915
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Zustellung: Di, 04.08.2026
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Beschreibung
A surfer's journey learning to live well with cancer Tim Baker was living the dream. A best-selling and award-winning surf writer with a beautiful family, a lifetime of exotic travel and a home walking distance to quality waves. That all changed on July 7, 2015, when he was diagnosed, out of the blue, with stage 4, metastatic prostate cancer. So began a descent into the debilitating world of aggressive cancer treatments and a fight for a survival as brutal as any big wave hold down. Tim writes candidly and with a raw vulnerability about this perilous journey through chemotherapy, hormone therapy, radiation and surgery, and his own determined lifestyle strategies to maintain mind, body and spirit. Happily, surfing provided one of his most powerful forms of therapy, and writing about his experiences has proven deeply cathartic. In 2020, 1. 5 million men were diagnosed with prostate cancer globally and 375,000 lost their lives. In Australia, one in seven men will develop prostate cancer. Yet mainstream oncology concedes its ability to keep men with prostate cancer alive has outstripped its ability to manage the often-devastating side effects of treatment.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Tim Baker
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2022
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 384