What It Takes: Fighting for My Life and My Love of the Game
- ISBN-10
- 0451468805
- ISBN-13
- 9780451468802
- Series
- What It Takes
- Category
- Cancer
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-06-02
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Mark Herzlich
Description
As a child, Herzlich found true meaning in football, eventually turning his passion into a first-team All-American spot at Boston College. But the budding star was sidelined by persistent, debilitating pain in his left leg. The shocking diagnosis: He had Ewing's sarcoma, a rare bone cancer. Doctors put his odds of survival as low as ten percent-and no one thought he would be able to run, much less play football, again. Then Herzlich learned of a radical treatment that would give him the best chance to regain his strength and maybe even play football again, but at a cost.
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