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I should have thought to do this during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but anyway I wanted to share info about a WV native who's written a very useful book concerning cancer.

Bob Riter (my best friend from our days at Huntington High) has written a book called "The Elephant in the Room: Practical Advice When the Diagnosis is Cancer". .

Here's the book description from the Amazon.com page for the book:
The first few days following a cancer diagnosis are like riding on top of a speeding train. You're hanging on for dear life and can't quite see what's ahead. In The Elephant in the Room: Practical Advice When the Diagnosis Is Cancer, author Bob Riter helps people sort out all of the issues involved with a cancer diagnosis. This collection of previously published columns addresses an array of topics related to the diagnosis, the treatment, and the time after treatment. It provides advice on breaking the news to parents and children, including tips on what to say and what not to say. It also examines nontraditional cancer therapies, doctor-patient interactions, survivor's guilt, the after-treatment blahs, and cancer as a chronic disease. Articles in the collection also discuss advocating for a loved one, talking about hospice care, and being single with cancer. The Elephant in the Room: Practical Advice When the Diagnosis Is Cancer provides useful tips for cancer patients and their friends and family to help them cope with this life-changing diagnosis.

Bob is a male breast cancer survivor (diagnosed about 16 years ago) and is director of the Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes in Ithaca NY. It was formerly the Ithaca Breast Cancer Alliance. His book is a collection of his best work from the weekly columns he does for the Ithaca Journal.
Bob is a Huntington native - he was the 13th baby born at Cabell-Huntington Hospital. If you know the area, you may remember his family's business Riter Furniture, which was on 3rd Avenue near where the Cam Henderson Center is now.

Bob can be contacted at bob@crcfl.net.

Some background links:
Amazon.com page for the book: http://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Room-Pra ... 89-8041916

Huffington Post article featuring Bob's story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/1 ... 77057.html

Huntington Herald-Dispatch article about Bob and his book by my friend H-D reporter Beth Hendricks: http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/bri ... cancer?i=0