Defending Andy: One Mother's Fight to Save Her Son from Cancer and the Insurance Industry

by Marilyn Azevedo

A powerful memoir of a hospice nurse's painful journey as her own sixteen-year-old son battled a rare form of cancer describes how she took on the health insurance bureaucracy and lobbied Congress to reform inequities in the system. Original. 20,000 first printing.

350 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2001

Reviews

[Christine Hatfield · Rating 5 out of 5]

That was a wonderful book and it was very sad

[Brenda Wharton · Rating 4 out of 5]

One mothers fight to save her son, Andy, from a rare form of cancer while battling with his insurance carrier to cover the treatments