BEAT BREAST CANCER LIKE A BOSS

High-profile and celebrity breast cancer survivors and "previvors" - including Edie Falco, Sheryl Crow, and Athena Jones - lend their voices to this inspirational support and recovery roadmap for anyone braving a cancer diagnosis, along with their loved ones.

When award-winning journalist Ali Rogin tested positively for the BRCA1 genetic mutation at age twenty-two - long before Angelina Jolie became the famous face of the gene - she was faced with an agonizing choice: Should she go ahead and cut the ticking time bomb cells out of her body or play a dangerous waiting game?

Rogin found answers in the vibrant, inspiring community of breast cancer survivors and "previvors" who also stared down the odds. With her brave, defiant decision to undergo a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy before even graduating college, she joined a diverse sisterhood of powerful women facing breast cancer in its many forms with dignity, strength, and humor. In BEAT BREAST CANCER LIKE A BOSS, they tell their stories.
Drawing from first-hand interviews of successful, high-profile women from an array of industries and walks of life (including Edie Falco, Heidi Heitkamp, Joan Lunden, Sheryl Crow, and Andrea Mitchell), Rogin brings together a support and recovery roadmap for anyone confronting a cancer diagnosis, including tips on everything from telling your loved ones about your diagnosis, to navigating the myriad treatment options available, to managing the work/life/cancer balance. In this inspiring and highly informative volume, readers learn how preeminent actresses, musicians, politicians, journalists, and entrepreneurs faced a formidable disease and put it in its place.

Ali Rogin is a producer with the PBS NewsHour foreign affairs team. In addition to traveling the world for PBS, she shoots, edits, and produces her own stories for TV, radio, and print; her reports appear on MSNBC, ABC, PBS, SiriusXM, and nationally-syndicated FM radio shows. Rogin is a ten-year veteran of D.C.'s political scene, covering the White House, Capitol Hill, and the State Department. In 2012, she flew around the country on Air Force One and press planes when covering the presidential election.