Overview: Each year, approximately 1.5 million people in the United States and Canada are diagnosed with cancer. This is one family's story. Winner of the 2005 Eisner Award in the category of Best Digital Comic for the original Web version, Mom's Cancer is now available as a graphic novel. An honest, unflinching, and sometimes humorous look at the practical and emotional effect that serious illness can have on patients and their families, Mom's Cancer is a story of hope- uniquely told in words and illustrations. Brian Fies is a freelance journalist whose mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. As he and his two sisters struggled with the effects of her illness and her ongoing recovery from treatment, Brian processed the experience in his journal, which took the form of words and pictures. The story that came to be known as "Mom's Cancer" first gained notice on the internet. It was posted anonymously, with the intention of sharing information and insights gained from his family's experience. Thanks to the words and illustrations of Brian Fies, readers have already responded that they were surprised and gratified to realize that they weren't alone.

"This edition published in 2008 by Abrams ComicArts, an imprint of Abrams"--Title page verso.

Introduction -- Preface -- Characters: -- Mom -- Me -- Nurse Sis -- Kid Sis -- How to diagnose lung cancer, step one -- How to diagnose lung cancer, step two -- Lying in wait -- Family meeting -- Inoperable -- Nurse Sis -- Impressive hospitality -- Terrible thing to waste -- Told you so what -- Kid sis and Hollywood -- Never tell me the odds -- Arrangement in grey and black -- Dad -- Chemo gut -- Usual unusual -- Rx kryptonite -- Hope against hope -- After the war, part one -- Mom in mathemagic land -- Just deserts -- PE -- No man deserved less at her hands -- Puzzlement -- One night at the condo -- Whose life is it anyway? -- After the war, part two -- Universe inside her head -- Many heroic returns -- We learn by doing -- Autumnfall -- Five percent solution -- Waiting for my wife to get the minivan -- Deus ex machina (an end) -- Epilogue -- Afterword -- For more information.