Pretty Girls Don’t Get Cancer

This is a review for the the book Pretty Girls Don’t Get Cancer which I was sent a copy of in exchange for this review.

If you were to say to me Pretty Girls Don’t Get Cancer I would look at you liked your crazy. Then I would tell you that you don’t know what your talking about.

Because I watched a beautiful healthy 15 year old women die of Cancer and she was beautiful inside and out. As well as my mom who was/is one of the kindest women around.

For me to read this book and not find myself relieving things I’ve dealt with in my own life was hard. It lead to many sleepless nights of what if I had done this or that.

Especially in the death of my own daughter Suzzie although she was in a Car Accident and proclaimed Brain Dead. Did I give up to soon? Was there something else I should have done?

Only the Lord knows the answer to that question and can tell us why someone like Patricia would contact Cancer and not be able to live life like a normal teenager.

But through it all the Author perservered and was able to tell her story to help others out and I would like to thank the LORD for sparring her and for Patricia having the courage to tell her story.

I shared Pretty Girls Don’t Get Cancer with my son Charlie because I wanted to let him see what she went through and discuss our friend Hunter who was 16 and Died of Cancer just like Brooke.

Because no, matter how much we prepare for the future it isn’t promised and at any time anyone of us could get Cancer but through Pretty Girls Don’t Get Cancer we were shown there is ways to combat and fight back against Cancer.

About:

Patricia’s Story: Surviving Stage IV Adolescent Cancer

Baltimore, MD, July 30, 2021 — “Pretty girls don’t get cancer,” the doctor assured M. Patricia Diaz over 30 years ago. At the age of just 16, Diaz was scared and uncomfortable.

However, the doctor’s words were meant to reassure her — and at the time, they worked. Patricia had been bracing for bad news, and now she felt relieved.  

Two months later, she was diagnosed with stage IV terminal cancer.

Pretty Girls Don’t Get Cancer is Diaz’s candid, compelling story of overcoming the medical odds and transforming herself — mind, body and spirit — as a way of nurturing her ongoing healing process.

Diaz experienced a year of Social Isolation (due to her compromised Immune System at the time) during what should have been the most carefree, enjoyable time in her young life.

Her journey toward authentic recovery would require spiritual growth and the kind of introspection that typically comes with maturity and hindsight.

“Isolation, at first a burden, in time, turned into a precious gift,” Diaz reflects. “It gave me space and silence, and it shone the light into the corners of my soul that were comfortably dim. … I was alive — I was breathing, and that insight made all the difference for me to make the best of the time I had to spend with ‘me.’”

Pretty Girls Don’t Get Cancer does not sugarcoat the agony of the tests and treatments that Diaz endured, but she keeps the narrative conversational and relatable, with Latin American nuances and sprinkles of adolescent humor.

Part coming-of-age, part motivational memoir, her story is a testament to the power of a strong community, personal resiliency and grains of faith in the face of a cancer diagnosis.

Diaz shows readers how her illness affected her life, her family and the community, and how restoring her physical health was only the first step toward healing.

About the Author

M. Patricia Diaz is an Author, health-supportive chef and human resources consultant. Her wellness journey began in 1989 when she was diagnosed with stage IV Terminal Cancer.

During the most difficult time in her life, and with the help of friends, family and life mentors, she turned to Yoga, Plant-based Diets and other alternative techniques to manage her crisis and then gently restore her health after Cancer treatments.

The lessons Diaz learned, and years of Yoga practice, led to an enthusiasm for well-being, a search for a depth of knowledge, and provided a compass for her life and career.

She trained in a plant-based chef program at the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City and completed a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training Program at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health.

She is passionate about teaching the foundations of Yoga and the basics of Plant-based diets. She loves to help others connect with their inner wellness coach, and she believes that a genuine practice starts with a strong foundation honoring the principles of “ahimsa’” — first do no harm.

For more information, please visit, or follow the Author on Facebook (MPatriciaDiaz); Twitter (@mpatriciadiaz01); or Instagram (prettygirlsdontgetcancer).

Pretty Girls Don’t Get Cancer Publisher: BookBaby

ISBN-10: ‎1098312244 ISBN-13: ‎978-1098312244

Available from Amazon.com, BN.com, Apple Books and many other online retailers

Thank you,

Glenda, Charlie and David Cates