Publisher's Synopsis
When Sharon Batt as diagnosed as having breast cancer, she undertook a quest to understand her disease. Her journey led her from an investigation of the labryinthine medical establishment to an awareness of how researchers, the media and fundraising organizations manipulate appearances and play for high monetary stakes in the breast cancer "game". She also discovered how people with cancer have broken free of apathy, fear and silence. Her book closes with a feminist vision for change and an insider's look at the increasingly powerful cancer movement.