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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.

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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
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