Saving Jack: A Man's Struggle with Breast Cancer

by Alan Berch Hollingsworth and Jack Willis

A moving account of breast cancer from a surprising perspective It isn?t just a woman?s disease: few men stop to consider it, but one in a thousand males contracts breast cancer. Saving Jack is a moving first-person account of a man?s experience with breast cancer. In a tale of challenge and adversity, Jack Willis relates his personal experience, from first feeling a pea-sized nodule in his breast to being diagnosed, from mastectomy and chemotherapy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806138955
• ISBN13: 9780806138954
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Super book!

I absolutely loved this book. I was in the library, and I was just randomly looking at a book to read, and this popped out. When I was in high school, our principal wanted to educate EVERYBODY about breast cancer. All the girls were uncomfortable with the fact that guys were in the room, but many of us had no idea it could happen to guys also. The male students needed to learn that it could happen to them too. In fact, we had a male student that had breast cancer himself which is very rare. Anyhow... every male should read this book in my opinion.

An unusual first-person account of a man's experience of a disease normally associated with women

SAVING JACK: A MAN'S STRUGGLE WITH BREAST CANCER provides an unusual first-person account of a man's experience of a disease normally associated with women. From being diagnosed to having a mastectomy and chemo, this provides the first book to address the issues of men who suffer from the disease. Health care and public libraries need it. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch

A True Comfort

Saving Jack is THE book to read if you or a loved one has cancer. Although it covers the author's personal experience with one type of cancer, breast cancer in a male of all things, the lessons learned are invaluable. It is a personal, first person account by a brilliant, funny and often poignant man who takes you on the roller coaster of the cancer patient's inner world. This is an excellent read for those who treat cancer patients and their families. This book is engaging from beginning to end, and I too, read it straight through! It is the best book of this area for demystifying some very scary issues on a personal level. If life hands you lemons, this is the gourmet recipe for lemonade. This book had an unexpected effect on this reviewer on the most visceral level. It was comforting. Never saw that coming.

A book for anyone who loves someone who has or has had cancer

This is a heartfelt book. The author takes the reader along on his journey in dealing with a disease that many people do not think men can get. From finding the tumor to a missed diagnosis through a mastectomy and chemo therpay. Jack Willis is able to draw you in with his funny and warm writing to feeling that you actually know him and his family. He does a great job of including his family and thier struggle in dealing with a loved one going through cancer. It is a must read for anyone who has had cancer and anyone who has loved someone with cancer.

Inspiring, Moving and ultimately charming

Jack Willis was my instructor and adviser for five years in Oklahoma and I was there through his ordeal with cancer. This book is the perfect mix of journalistic reporting, along with the charm of a memoir. Mr. Willis is sweet, sad, yet funny throughout the chronicles of his battle with cancer. Throughout his turmoil, he managed to produce several top notch journalists, and reading this book reminded me why he was the amazing teacher and friend that he is. I started the book one night and finished the entire thing- you simply can't put it down. Every page is heartfelt and the writing and editing is as strong as I've seen in any book.