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    My Race Against Death: Lessons Learned From My Health Struggles
    My Race Against Death: Lessons Learned From My Health Struggles
    My Race Against Death: Lessons Learned From My Health Struggles
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    My Race Against Death: Lessons Learned From My Health Struggles

    By Shoba Rao

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    When cancer strikes, the same body that you trusted has produced cells that are ready to kill you. The horrors of chemo, surgery, hospitalization, and everything that is thrown at you with the aim of making you better, breaks you physically and mentally. It would be so amazing if you were cured and never got it again. Unfortunately, that is not a guarantee anyone can make. But should that stop you from living?

    In My Race Against Death Shoba Rao shares the most important lesson she has learned as a three-time cancer survivor and a kidney transplant recipient: You are not your disease. It does not define your life, rather it reminds you to live life to the fullest extent.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateFeb 2, 2023
    ISBN9781957651262
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