First, You Cry

By Betty Rollin

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Health, Fitness & Dieting

NBC correspondent Betty Rollin was 39 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a mastectomy. In this memoir she writes candidly about her fear and depression, the strain on her marriage and her return to work and to life. First published in 1976, the book was among the first frank personal accounts of breast cancer, and it helped open public conversation about the disease and its treatment.

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• Oprah Winfrey: “She wrote a book called First You Cry. It was one of the first books about breast cancer.”