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CURE

Special Issue 2007
Volume6
Issue 3

The Law of Distraction

Author(s):

Marisa Acocella Marchetto

Cartoonist Marisa Acocella Marchetto, author of Cancer Vixen, shares her journey through breast cancer through her drawings.

Marisa Acocella Marchetto lives in New York City and is a cartoonist for The New Yorker and Glamour. Her graphic memoir Cancer Vixen: A True Story was published by Knopf in 2006.

Click to view cartoon.

Articles in this issue
To Catch a Cancer
Screening for Recurrent Breast Cancer
A New Era
The Comforts of Help
Eluding Cancer
Navigation As Support
The Lifestyle Approach
The Law of Distraction
What Stage Is Your Breast Cancer?
Optimism for Inflammatory Breast Cancer
Message from the Editor
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