The Cancer Challenge: Sharing the Experience

About the Book

"Lee Miller's book The Cancer Challenge contains much wisdom gained through her experience with cancer and the people she has encountered. Lee speaks as a native, not a tourist, and because of her experience she is able to write a guidebook for all those who find themselves in need of guidance. Lee can coach and guide you along the path to healing. Her book clarifies the value of support groups and also is a resource for the family and friends of those afflicted by the disease. It is far wiser to learn from her experience rather than our own disasters. So read on and find your path to healing yourself and those accompanying you through the unchartered territory known as cancer."
Bernie Siegel, MD
Author of Love, Medicine & Miracles and Help Me to Heal

"Lee Miller epitomizes all that's valuable and important about SHARE and the peer support model. Her pioneering spirit has helped SHARE explore new areas of support particularly enhancing doctor-patient communication skills. She has brought and continues to bring to the organization and to the women she meets the enthusiasm, optimism and energy of youth and the wisdom that can only come from years. Her passion and commitment to helping women know that they are not alone when diagnosed with breast or ovarian cancer, has impacted the lives of many who have come through SHARE during these thirty years."
Alice Yaker
Executive Director of SHARE

About the Author

After a radical mastectomy in 1975, Lee Miller became a founding member of an organization called SHARE founded by Dr. Eugene Thiessen. She has consistently played a very active part in designing programs such as facilitation and hotline training, patient/doctor communication, and the bereavement program. She was President of the Board of Directors for eight years and is a member of the Emeritus Board.
Her background of social work, law, counseling and psycho-therapy have consistently shown a core interest in advocacy for the student, teacher, client and patient.
She served for three years on Surgeon-General Koop?s Task Force on Self-Help and Public Health and that experience affirmed her belief that peer support changed people?s lives. She also served on the Board of Directors of the New York Self-Help Clearinghouse for several years.
However, her role as mother, grandmother and widow have deepened her life thus creating a richer tapestry for her work.
She is proud to be part of this not-for profit organization, which has always been responsive to the ever-growing requests for programs and projects and has helped so many women weather the storms of cancer with dignity and courage.