{"id":101,"date":"2026-09-06T15:32:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T19:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elaineschattner.com\/?page_id=101"},"modified":"2026-09-29T08:38:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:38:41","slug":"corrections-to-the-first-edition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.elaineschattner.com\/about\/book\/corrections-to-the-first-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Corrections to the first edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p. 17. Elizabeth Cullum died in September, 1884, at age fifty-three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p. 58. provision of eyeglasses to poor children (insert &#8220;of&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p. 119. Burgess plainly called cigarettes <em>cancers<\/em>. (italicize &#8220;cancers&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p. 138 \u201cuninformed\u201d replaces &#8220;uniformed&#8221; (should be: &#8220;uninformed doctors who insist\u2026\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p. 141. The number of Americans living after a malignant diagnosis expanded from five to seven million between 1985 and 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p. 158. The FDA campus is in Rockville (not Bethesda), Maryland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p. 166. In her 1996 book, <em>Waking Up, Fighting Back: The Politics of Breast Cancer<\/em>, Roberta Altman reported that doctors were split on the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p. 169 (footnote). MET UP formed in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p. 193. <em>O&#8217;Neal<\/em> starred in Love Story in 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p. 198. Gayle Sulik helped popularize the term <em>pinkwashing<\/em> in her 2010 book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p. 214. In 2010, just before a promotional tour for <em>Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps<\/em>, the movie in which he starred, &lt;Michael&gt; Douglas shared a \u201cthroat cancer\u201d diagnosis&#8230;In June 2013, he created a stir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p. 220. Beth Caldwell was thirty-eight when she founded MET-UP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p. 224. Dr. Oliver Sacks revealed having melanoma and why he hesitated about chemotherapy before he died at age eighty-two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p. 235. &#8220;A new way of looking at cancer is tissue agnostic.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">p. 253. Starting around 1951, Dupont developed one such substance, PFOA&#8230;(not &#8220;in the 1940s&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>p. 17. Elizabeth Cullum died in September, 1884, at age fifty-three. p. 58. provision of eyeglasses to poor children (insert &#8220;of&#8221;) p. 119. Burgess plainly called cigarettes cancers. (italicize &#8220;cancers&#8221;) p. 138 \u201cuninformed\u201d replaces &#8220;uniformed&#8221; (should be: &#8220;uninformed doctors who insist\u2026\u201d) p. 141. The number of Americans living after a malignant diagnosis expanded from five &#8230; <a title=\"Corrections to the first edition\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elaineschattner.com\/about\/book\/corrections-to-the-first-edition\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Corrections to the first edition\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":30,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-101","page","type-page","status-publish"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elaineschattner.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elaineschattner.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elaineschattner.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elaineschattner.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elaineschattner.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.elaineschattner.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/www.elaineschattner.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101\/revisions\/104"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elaineschattner.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elaineschattner.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}