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Throat Cancer Diary
Paperback
Publisher Price: $29.99
Publisher: USA Publishing Hub
Published: Aug 18 2026
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
THROAT CANCER DIARY
A story about music, addiction, cancer, survival, faith, and finding purpose when life changes without warning.
At 3:30 p.m. on March 28, 2025, Ryan Bueter opened an email that changed his life.
The first words were clinical and devastating:
Squamous cell carcinoma positive for p16.
Just ten days earlier, Ryan had undergone surgery to remove a tumor from the right side of his neck. He had been expecting a phone call from his doctor the following Monday. Instead, his cancer diagnosis arrived unexpectedly in his inbox on a Friday afternoon-with no doctor available to explain what it meant.
Ryan was a professional musician, entertainer, and businessman. His life revolved around music, performance, and the people who depended on him. Suddenly, he was facing a question more frightening than almost any other:
What would cancer do to his voice?
But Throat Cancer Diary is not only a story about cancer.
It is the story of a boy from Dublin, Ohio, who discovered that music could quiet the insecurities he carried inside him. It follows his journey from playing drums as a child to chasing the dream of becoming a rock star in Hollywood, performing in bands, and eventually finding a new life and career in the world of dueling pianos.
It is also an unflinching look at addiction.
Ryan writes openly about alcohol, drugs, insecurity, validation, destructive patterns, and the long road toward sobriety. His recovery became another chapter in his relationship with music-and ultimately helped him build something bigger than the career he had originally imagined.
Then came cancer.
Surgery.
Radiation.
A treatment mask.
Pain.
Loss of taste.
Swallowing difficulties.
Fear.
Exhaustion.
And the terrifying possibility that the thing that had always made Ryan feel most like himself-his voice-might not survive.
Yet through the fear and uncertainty, Ryan continued searching for meaning.
He kept asking a different question:
How can this experience help someone else?
Throat Cancer Diary takes readers inside the reality of diagnosis and treatment while also exploring the life that came before it-the childhood insecurities, the music, the addiction, sobriety, business, friendships, family, faith, and the people who helped carry Ryan through the moments when he could no longer carry himself.
And then comes the moment he feared most:
He sings again.
The voice is different.
The road ahead is still uncertain.
But the voice is there.
The voice stayed.
This is not a story wrapped neatly in a Hollywood ending. Recovery does not happen overnight, and cancer does not simply disappear because treatment ends. Ryan acknowledges the uncertainty that remains and the reality of continuing to live with the experience.
Instead, this is a story about what we choose to do with what happens to us.
For the person who has just received a diagnosis.
For the musician afraid that illness will take away their art.
For someone fighting addiction.
For a family member trying to understand what their loved one is experiencing.
For anyone who has ever wondered whether the hardest chapter of their life could eventually become something meaningful.
This book was written to be useful.
And Ryan's voice is still speaking.
THROAT CANCER DIARY
A true story of music, addiction, cancer, recovery, and the voice that refused to disappear.
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