Defying Death: my twin son's lengthy battle with cancer

By Janice Button Shafer

Janice Button Shafer, mother and scientist, writes about the many decades of struggles with cancer experienced by the first-born of her identical twin boys from age 11 to age 47. She describes the medical choices made, and the impacts not only on son Charles and his twin brother John, but also on their older sister Christina. Many technical matters are discussed, but these are mostly relegated to figures, footnotes, and appendices. Although experienced as a university educator and researcher in physics and engineering, Ms. Shafer here attempts to describe human affairs and emotions involving her entire family, her mathematician husband and their three children, in the battle to keep her son Charles alive.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1987591003
• ISBN13: 9781987591002
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.0" x 10.0"