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It crashes into your life and nothing is ever the same.		 Cancer Doesn't Knock  
by Verna Acker

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ON LUNG CANCER AND HOW TO DEAL WITH IT?

How can the caregiver help their loved one go on living with lung cancer? What books and web sites will help and provide the most information? When the diagnosis is lung cancer, non-small cell adenocarcinoma with multiple metastatic brain tumors, what do you do next and how do you go on coping with cancer?

These questions and others are answered in this story of hope and love, victory and tears. Walk with the Ackers through lung cancer treatment, whole head radiation, chemotherapy and gamma knife surgery. Walk with them as they challenge the survival rates. Their early diagnosis of the advanced Stage IV level indicated their survival window may be only a few weeks if the treatments weren't successful. With success, they were told to expect six to eight months of survival.

Beyond all the details about this disease and its insidious complications, the reader is invited to walk along on the journey through living with this disease. Learn with them as they experience the joys and the sorrows, the high and the lows of life as they now know it.

It's a long walk. There is no map.

Verna searched for books that would show her how to cope. None were what she sought. This book fills that void. It takes you on their incredible roller coaster ride, through eighteen months of their battle with this stubborn disease. What have I Learned? segments help the reader to step away for a moment to review the lessons learned as they rode the roller coaster and endured the incredible highs and the endurable lows. Email segments that were sent to family and friends invite the reader to feel what they felt and to understand how they dealt with the role God had placed in front of them.

Cancer Doesn't Knock chronicles 18 months of a courageous battle with this terrible disease. Twenty-six chapters and 213 pages later you will know the Ackers. You will understand how love, persistence, humor and prayer kept them going as they battled together. You may find that even the most insidious diagnosis and a terrible prognosis can be handled if you love and pray.

When the doctor says lung cancer, your whole world changes.