The Cancer Companion A guide to getting your head and heart around your diagnosis and treatment

The Cancer Companion: A guide to getting your head and heart around your diagnosis and treatment is a compassionate guidebook written by a cancer patient for those newly-diagnosed cancer patients. The topics covered are those most pressing questions that newly-diagnosed individuals have when trying best to understand what is ahead of them. Topics covered are the emotional and physical challenges of a diagnosis as well as what to expect from scans, tests, and treatments (surgery, radiation, chemotherapy). The book is sprinkled with stories from the author's experience battling two cancers concurrently and includes honest (and sometimes funny) anecdotes.

Sarah E. McDonald lives in Mill Valley with her husband, Geoff, and daughter, Rory. Sarah has spent the majority of her 30-year career in
the technology industry, 14 years of which were at eBay, where she was working when she was diagnosed with cancer. She now splits her time as an executive coach, workshop facilitator, keynote speaker, hopeful author, and fierce advocate for those undergoing cancer treatment. She raises money for rare cancer research through Memorial Sloan Kettering's Cycle for Survival and is a speaker and volunteer for the American Cancer Society.

Sarah received her MBA from Cornell University and her BA from Occidental College. Beyond cancer, Sarah is interested in all things people-related – especially when paired with food, wine, the outdoors, and/or music. Her first book, The Cancer Channel: One year, Two cancers, Three miracles, is a memoir focused on her experience being diagnosed with and treated for two cancers. The Cancer Companion: A guide to getting your head and heart around your diagnosis and treatment is her second book (and really the book she intended to write before she was encouraged to write a memoir instead).