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When an X-ray of a sore arm quickly leads to a diagnosis of Stage IV kidney cancer - one which would soon affect his bones, his lungs, lymph nodes, and brain - Peter Rooney's life will never be the same. Faced with the prognosis of an incurable disease and armed only with the will to fight back, Immunopatient chronicles Peter's desperate quest for hope and healing, and the experimental treatment that will give him a chance to strike back at his disease. Detailing both the medical breakthroughs that provided Peter with cutting-edge treatment and his inspirational quest to conquer both his fear and his illness through mindfulness and positive visualization, Immunopatient is a gripping memoir, one that offers new hope to cancer patients everywhere to never give up looking for answers.
About the Author
Peter Rooney grew up in a small town outside Chicago, and spent summers detasseling corn and occasionally finding arrowheads in the fields where he was deployed. He has worked as a reporter for various media outlets, including the Associated Press in Berlin and the Champaign-Urbana (Ill.) News-Gazette, where his reporting contributed to the exoneration and release of a death row inmate. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from the University of Illinois, was a recipient of the International Center for Journalists' Arthur Burns Fellowship and is a member of the Kappa Tau Alpha National Honor Society in journalism and mass communication. He met his wife during a year he spent studying abroad in Vienna, and has two sons. He has worked as a New Hampshire-based public relations consultant for colleges, universities, charitable foundations and non-profits, and is currently the director of public affairs at Amherst College in Amherst, Mass.
