Acknowledgments

The author gratefully acknowledges the help of the following in the preparation of this book:

Stacey Akers, MD; Arlene Allen-Mitchell; Bruno Bastos, MD; Karen Bate; David Brownstein, MD; Nancy Butterworth; Kay Cofrancesco; Mike Craycraft; Dan Collins; Andrew Crues; Christine Darling; Annie Deck-Miller; Antonio Divine; Ginny Dixon: Joanne Filina; Juan Florez; Neil B. Friedman, MD; Robert C. Flanigan, MD; Peter Frederick, MD; David Fuehrer; Tom Halkin; Alysa Herman, MD; Elizabeth Henry, MD; Nancy Herrera; Joy Huber; Stacey Huber; Robert Kaitz; Christine Hill-Kayser, MD; Brett Johnson; Blaine Kristo, MD; Mary Leonard; John Link, MD; Nancy Link; Amy Losak; Mary Jane Massie, MD; Daryn Mayer; Jack McCallum; Ashwin Mehta, MD; Andrea Molinato; Nancy Nick; Armando Sardi, MD; Laura Porter, MD; Nancy Newsom Ridgway; Jim Ritter; Tulio Rodriguez, MD; Loretta D. Schoen; Gary K. Schwartz, MD; Peter Shankman; Monica Smith; Patrick Stiff, MD; Anna Strazzante; Alexandra Stefanovic, MD; Dennis Tartaglia; Lee E. Tessler, MD; Jacob Teitelbaum, MD; Nora Weinstein; Jenny White; Lisa Worley; and Donald Yance Jr., CN, MH, RH (AHG).

I also want to thank all of my friends who are fighting cancer and whose stories were not included in this book, but who inspired me every step of the way, with a special heartfelt nod to Cathy Gollinger Strauss and Robert Roz Strauss.

In addition, I want to thank Travis Davis for being instrumental in matching me to this book project and to the team at Humanix Books, especially Andy Brown and Pamela Pantaleo for all their assistance throughout the shaping and editing of this manuscript.