Listening to Cancer:

Essays on Treatment, Survivorship, and Giving Back

Steve Buechler

As an eight-year survivor of a lethal blood cancer, Steve Buechler has assembled forty essays on what he has learned “listening to cancer” from diagnosis and treatment to recovery and survivorship. Anyone whose life has been touched by cancer can benefit from the wisdom and lessons contained in this highly readable volume.

AUTHOR BIO

Steve Buechler is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he attended UW-Milwaukee and financed his undergraduate education by playing the drums in a rock and roll band. After earning a couple of academic degrees, he had a thirty-one-year career at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where he taught sociology. His favorite pastimes include cruising the Mediterranean and patronizing a local pool hall. He lives in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. One year before his retirement date, he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and treated with chemotherapy, radiation, and a double umbilical cord blood transplant. You can find him on Facebook @SteveBuechlerAuthor.