"This book provides a unique look at the historical and psychologic roots of cancerphobia, leveraging deep examinations of specific examples of how this fear can lead to certain behaviors"--

Uses the author's experience with cancer in order to encourage others to stay positive while battling the disease, with anecdotes from other survivors and advice on handling such issues as the diagnosis, relationships, exercise, and caregiving.

The Journey Through Cancer is an essential guide for all cancer patients, their families, and their loved ones. As a board-certified oncologist, with more than ten years of experience serving as physician, guide, mentor, coach, and friend to thousands of cancer patients and their families, Dr. Jeremy Geffen has learned how cancer often challenges the mind, heart, and spirit of patients and their families as deeply --- if not more deeply --- than it challenges the physical body. Yet this simple truth is often overlooked by Western medicine as it aggressively pursues the best ways to diagnose and treat cancer. Too often physicians focus almost exclusively on the physical dimensions of the disease, rather than caring for the whole person who has the disease. Dr. Geffen presents a groundbreaking seven-level program, used at his cancer center in Florida, that addresses every dimension of the person with cancer--physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual: Education and Information, giving patients answers to questions about their disease and their treatment options. Psychosocial Support, focusing on the need for and benefits of a strong support network. The Body as Garden, exploring the vast array of alternative and complementary therapies. Emotional Healing, helping patients and families deal with the often overwhelming emotional challenges of cancer. The Nature of Mind, exploring how patients' thoughts and beliefs profoundly influence their journey. Life Assessment, showing patients how to discover their life's deepest meaning and purpose. The Nature of Spirit, connecting patients to the profoundly healing spiritual aspect of life we all share. In The Journey Through Cancer, Dr. Geffen presents a revolutionary model of healing based on the best treatments available from every culture and paradigm of medicine, one that respects and explores every possible avenue and resource for healing and transformation, blending East and West, body and mind, heart and technology, science and spirit.

This comprehensive guide delivers informed hope along with effective tools for reclaiming your vitality in the midst of cancer treatment, healing, and recovery. When you or a loved one is faced with a cancer diagnosis, the need for accurate and trusted medical information becomes urgent. Naturopathic physician Lise N. Alschuler and medical journalist Karolyn A. Gazella present an overview of what cancer is, its causes and preventative strategies, an in-depth approach to integrative treatment options, descriptions of key body functions, and discussions of more than twenty specific cancers. The Definitive Guide to Cancer, now in its third edition, encourages you to take an integrative approach that embraces both alternative and conventional therapies across the spectrum of cancer prevention, treatment, and healing.

Most cancer research dollars have been wasted by asking the wrong questions, looking in the wrong places, and recycling the same failed approaches while expecting different results. Conventional cancer treatments damage health, cause new cancers, lower the quality of life, and decrease the chances of survival. In fact, most people who die from cancer are not dying from cancer, but from their treatments! That's the bad news. Here's the good news: We can end the cancer epidemic. In Never Fear Cancer Again, readers will gain a revolutionary new understanding of health and disease and will come to understand that cancer is a biological process that can be turned on and off, not something that can be surgically removed or destroyed with radiation or toxic chemicals. So whether cancer has already been diagnosed or if prevention is the concern, it is possible to turn off the wayward production of these malfunctioning cells once and for all by reading this book and implementing its strategies. The key to any disease has one simple cause: malfunctioning cells that are created by either deficiency or toxicity. By switching off the malfunctioning cells, you switch off the cancer. Never Fear Cancer Again guides readers along six pathways that cause deficiency or toxicity at the cellular level: nutritional path, genetic path, medical path, toxin path, physical path, and the psychological path. By making key lifestyle changes, people truly have the power to take control of cancer and transform their health. This radically different, yet holistic approach restored author Raymond Francis back to health just as it has helped thousands of others, many of whom were told they had no other options or that their cancer was incurable. Take back your health with this book and never fear cancer again.

Fear Cancer No More is a well-researched and clearly written book. It begins by sharing information about cancer as seen from the cellular level. It proceeds to show that cancer is a process that produces malignant tumor symptoms, and it explains that certain dietary and lifestyle changes can prevent that process from thriving. The recommended dietary and lifestyle changes are from a holistic standpoint; they are natural and non-toxic alternatives to conventional treatment, and they enhance the healing power of the body. Think of cancer as a fire, and the resulting tumors are the smoke. Instead of swatting the smoke, this book is designed to help each of us put out the fire.

"Battling And Beating Cancer - The Cancer Survival Book "is an inspiring story of a couple fighting cancer together. It provides a poignant and enlightening look at cancer from the perspectives of patient and caregiver - covering the highs and lows from diagnosis, to surgery, to chemotherapy, to radiation, to follow-up, to fighting back for people impacted by cancer. The book covers cancer survival from A to Z, including (1) the basics about cancer in general and blood cancers (lymphoma, leukemia, and myeloma) in particular; (2) selecting the best doctors and assembling your health care team; (3) understanding tests, diagnostic tools, and staging; (4) obtaining a prompt and proper diagnosis and getting second opinions; (5) taking advantage of conventional treatments, revolutionary treatments, and clinical trials; (6) selecting the most effective treatment for your cancer; (7) surviving your hospital stay; (8) understanding survival rates and making appropriate adjustments to put the odds in your favor; (9) developing a cancer warrior mentality; (10) dealing with fears, scanxiety, and thriving as a cancer survivor: (11) taking advantage of complementary and integrative therapies and a healthy lifestyle to help you beat cancer; (12) understanding the role of the immune system in beating cancer; (13) explaining why blood cancer research is the superhighway to curing cancer; and (14) setting out the authors national call to action to cure cancer through cancer education and awareness, patient advocacy, fundraising, organizing, cogent research, and public policy advocacy. "Battling and Beating Cancer" is loaded with checklists, tips, and tools, including: a detailed list of questions to ask your doctors at each critical phase pointers doctors may forget to tell you a checklist of legal and insurance documents tips for dealing with common side effects of treatment a listing of organizations, websites, and resources available to help you get the support and information you need about your type of cancer and the treatments and clinical trials available to you. It also includes a patient s medical information workbook to help you record relevant information. You will want to bring the book with you so that you have important information at your finger tips. The Foreword is written by leading hematologist-oncologist Stephanie A. Gregory, MD and transplant physician Henry C. Fung, MD, Rush University Medical Center. Aptly titled, this book is all about beating cancer."