For this publication, Naomi's original manuscript has been markedly edited for coherence and clarity. Considerable care has been taken in the redrafting, with inordinate prudence taken to ensure its veracity, and to lay bare her authentic voice, unencumbered by the nuisances that diaries and journals inevitably yield.
Beyond her first-hand accounts is a section on commonly used medical terms and definitions, a breast diagram for quick reference, a historical timeline of breast cancer treatments dating from 3000 BC, Naomi’s breast cancer timeline, a foreword, afterword, and endnotes by Eric Gross, two letters from her husband Bruce, written while Naomi was obtaining alternative cancer treatments in Bavaria, Germany, after the completion of her original manuscript five months earlier, and Naomi’s unabridged manuscript.
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