Sean Swarner, the first cancer survivor ever to climb Mount Everest, has published his book "Keep Climbing: How I Beat Cancer and Reached the Top of the World", which is available in bookstores from Tuesday, 20 February 2007.  
Sean was a key speaker at the 3rd ESMO Patient Seminar in Vienna, Austria in 2004.  He is a remarkable individual who fought – and won – the battle with cancer twice.  He is the co-founder of the association Cancerclimber: a unique, not-for-profit organization dedicated to motivating those living with cancer by encouraging patients to inspire each other.
His book, "Keep Climbing: How I Beat Cancer and Reached the Top of the World" tells of his battle with cancer and the struggle to scale the summit of Mt. Everest.  For Sean, climbing Everest was an attempt to become a source of support, a model, an encouragement, an inspiration to others who might not have someone to look up to.  He is a beacon of hope to those battling cancer and provides inspiration so that they too can 'climb' out of their existing life and into an incredible one after the disease.
For any further information about Sean or the Cancerclimber Association, please visit http://www.myspace.com/cancerclimber or http://www.cancerclimber.org/index.html.

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