Fighting Cancer: A Survival Guide About the book Fighting Cancer - A Survival Guide. For cancer resources, information about cancer treatment options and cancer patient support.. Cancer patients seeking links to cancer resources, information and support will find this site provides a general orientation designed to help you make your own choices and decisions concerning alternative cancer treatments or orthodox cancer treatments.
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About the book Fighting Cancer: A Survival Guide
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`Fighting Cancer - A Survival Guide' is a good title - This book is a guide for those who are facing cancer treatment decisions and who therefore need a basic and accessible orientation to the whole world that they have been thrown into by a diagnosis of cancer. READ THIS BOOK BEFORE YOU GET CANCER! That was my working title for the book. I wanted a title and a front cover that would reach out to you, the browsing book buyer, and catch you by the lapels and shake you and say (shout, scream and plead): `Listen! You should read me! You should read me now!' Unfortunately they haven't yet invented book covers that do this! But the basic point remains. I want to shortcut the following process: 1. You receive a diagnosis of cancer 3. You start to read around the subject 4. You start to suffer serious side effects from your treatment 5. You realise that you really wish you hadn't started this kind of treatment. I'm not saying this is inevitable. For some people surgery, radiation and/or chemotherapy is the treatment of choice and the treatment that best fits the patient's belief system. But there are other people who, if they only knew it, might prefer to take a different route to reaching a cure. The problem is this: How can you make a choice to choose non-mainstream cancer treatment methods as a first line of attack? On what basis could you make such a decision? None of the books on alternative medicine answered that question for me. I had to put that together myself. Also, what were the rationales for the various alternative treatments being offered? Were the people offering them really quacks? And why were the sources of information on mainstream cancer treatments so hysterical in their attitude to alternative treatments? (Yes, hysterical, irrational, propagandistic - there wasn't a cool, well-argued, convincing argument in any of the books and leaflets that I obtained from the FDA, the American Cancer Society and the Campaign Against Health Fraud. The British cancer information centres preferred to skirt the central controversy with avoidance strategies (don't mention them if you can help it) and cosy platitudes (show they're not to be taken seriously!) for someone looking for a clear unbiased opinion it was a frustrating experience. I hope I have managed to provide the background that allows such a decision to be taken.) But should you choose alternative treatments? Perhaps the mainstream methods are better? Or perhaps there are ways of combining them? And whose choice is this anyway? Obviously it is your choice. But how can you make this choice if you are not properly informed? And obviously your choices will be different from my mine. As I sat down to write this book I had to accept that I had to respect your choice - no matter how different it was from the choice I would make for myself and my family. The best way - the only way - I could do this was to treat you as an intelligent person who wanted to know the facts and wanted to see the evidence - and above all wanted hope. So `Fighting Cancer - A Survival Guide' is a critical personal look at cancer, what it is and how it is treated and how patients can/should orientate themselves towards the disease, the treatments and the doctors to give themselves the greatest possible chance of surviving. It is a basic tenet of the book that you must believe in the treatments you opt for - whatever that treatment is: whether it is surgery, radiation & chemotherapy or vitamin C, omega 3 oils, magnetic beds and meditation. The power of the placebo is great. Don't let your doctor trample on this power - don't let your doctor abuse it. Placebo Power is real and you can make it work for you. The opposite is `Nocebo' power - the power of pessimism and negativity and loss of control to undermine any treatment. Whatever other books you choose to read - (go to Other Recommended Books Reviewed) - I do advise you to read this one early on. Book Contents
Part One - Basic Facts
Part Two - The Orthodox Approach to Cancer Treatment
Part Three - Alternative treatments
Also discussed are the work of various treatments proposed by:
READ THIS BOOK. DISCUSS IT WITH YOUR PARTNER. PLEASE! THIS COULD HELP YOU SAVE A GREAT DEAL OF PAIN AND BITTERNESS. To buy this e-book, click here.
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