In any given year, doctors diagnose over one million new cases of cancer. In this unique book, cancer-survivor Greg Anderson offers 50 simple, pro-active steps to combatting the disease, including hopeful advice on treatment, attitude, and survival. Inspiring and informative--must reading for anyone faced with the frightening diagnosis of cancer.

This definitive guide, revised and updated with over 25% new material, empowers cancer patients and their loved ones to move beyond their disease. Greg Anderson, a cancer survivor, has designed this book for the recently diagnosed, those with recurring symptoms, and those who are well but have a lingering fear that the disease may strike again. Informative and inspiring, Cancer: 50 Essential Things to Do goes hand-in-hand with the patient's medical treatment and is an invaluable roadmap to recovery. Filled with practical, healing "action steps" that have been used by thousands of cancer survivors, the revised edition also contains important new information--including recently approved medical treatment options, updated cancer research, and Internet resources--geared toward making sense of the fast-changing world of cancer treatment and recovery.

The founder of the Cancer Recovery Foundation presents an essential guide to facing breast cancer with a combination of healing tactics. While recovery and survival rates for breast cancer have improved, the shock and confusion that comes with a diagnosis remains overwhelming, as does choosing a plan of treatment. With so many options out there, it’s difficult to know the best option for you. This is where an integrated approach comes in. By using a variety of tools, you maximize opportunity for healing. As a recognized pioneer in the field of integrated cancer care, Greg Anderson offers critical information and advice about the major issues facing breast cancer patients. As someone who has been a cancer patient himself, he also knows the emotional turmoil and stress a diagnosis can cause. Because of this, he guides readers toward making a concrete, comprehensive recovery plan that combines nutrition, exercise, mind/body approaches, and social support along with conventional medical care. Breast Cancer: 50 Essential Things to Do offers:A guide to health and healing from one of the world’s leading wellness authoritiesAn approach to recovery that calls into question Western medicine’s tendency to overtreatAdvice for cultivating physical, emotional, and spiritual health

Written by a cancer survivor, this invaluable guide to cancer recovery offers an easily accessible holistic action plan for patients and family members who choose to adopt a stance of hope and take charge of their diagnosis. Reprint.

While today's medical advances offer a host of treatment choices for infertile couples, sifting through the multitude of expensive and often painful options can be overwhelming and confusing. With this reader-friendly book, infertile couples can understand clinical information in a positive, effective manner and make the best choices.

In the media and medical literature, managing cancer as a chronic disease is fast becoming the focus of care. Patients who manage their cancer have the best chance of staying alive, having a good quality of life, or of being cured. They seek second opinions, research all types of cancer treatments, ask the right questions, protect themselves against errors during treatment, and change their lifestyles. This book provides patients with more than 200 things they need to know and elaborates on more than 200 things they can do. Doing only a few of these things may save your life. This book teaches patients how to increase their odds, how to go about making treatment decisions, how to find what they need on the Internet, why research services are worth their weight in gold, and much more. Managing Cancer: Managing to Stay Alive gives patients the following: information about what to do first; forms to help keep track of medical information; lists of questions to use to evaluate treatment options (traditional, integrative, alternative, and experimental); questions to have answered before deciding on a treatment, when given a new medication, and before having a biopsy procedure; questions to ask conventional doctors, alternative doctors, the oncologist initially, and yourself before beginning a treatment; information on how to help avoid becoming one of the 50,000 Americans who die from medical errors in hospitals or one of the 100,000 patients who die from hospital infections each year; and concise listings of symptoms of medical emergencies such as infection, anemia, blood clotting problems, allergic reactions, and adverse reactions to drugs.