There is no escaping the crimes of the past, discovers Kuppuswamy. The price for smoking away his youth has to be paid. And pay he does, in the form of gross hematuria and bladder cancer. While cancer eats away at his insides, Kuppuswamy does not let it kill his spirit to fight. Fortunately, he is not all alone in this battle, as an army of doctors, support staff, family and friends come to his aid in full force. As he wages a war against the dreaded disease, through several bouts of painful surgery and frequent reviews, a few surprises await him. Amid premature celebrations, minor hiccups and major shocks, Kuppuswamy emerges a winner. Minus a bladder, prostrate and several lymph nodes, Kuppuswamy pads up for a new innings. He realizes that life minus a few organs isn?t all that bad. Though he has to depend on external aids, which initially proves to be cumbersome and embarrassing, Kuppuswamy gradually accepts the new reality even as thoughts invade the cancer conqueror.

For more than a decade, Greg Anderson's The Cancer Conqueror has been helping cancer patients take control of their disease and their lives. Told as a modern-day parable, the book traces one patient's journey from the fear, futility, and grief felt upon first hearing a cancer diagnosis to the calm, focused, accepting outlook of a Cancer Conqueror. The story encourages a step-by-step transformation from despair to hope, and carries the empowering message that people can choose to be fully alive-even with a cancer diagnosis. In Journeys with the Cancer Conqueror Anderson has expotentially expanded his groundbreaking book to become an even more important companion to cancer patients. Most significantly, he has added an extensive series of interactive exercises that help the reader achieve greater self-knowledge and a heightened sense of personal empowerment-critically important elements of the holistic healing process. The Cancer Conqueror has helped patients and family members through some of the most difficult times in their lives, and Journeys with the Cancer Conqueror will continue to do so for years to come.

This modern-day inspirational parable shows how a positive attitude and a hopeful spirit affects cancer and even contributes to its cure. The reader is taken on a step-by-step transformation from despair to hope and left with the uplifting message that this is the moment they can create wellness of body, mind and spirit.

While tons of praise and empathy for the medical fraternity and for the patients struggling long term exist, very little seems to permeate to the home caregivers forgotten and forlorn. Forever silent throughout the battle and through those self-debilitating years of their lives, they remain among the long-lost perennial sufferers. This book causes a few to speak out, both those who buckled under the strain as also those who came out with joy and satisfaction at the end outcome. The ‘recalled to life’ dear one obliterates all the trauma of the past. We need to be more aware of how difficult the task of care giving is, and show respect and extend a helping hand when such a situation arises. At the very least, she ought to be respected as a human being whose sole purpose in life, for the time being, has been the welfare of the sick husband. This certainly has a cascading effect and a word of appreciation and a simple smile a day will bring more care from the spouse. This book establishes this without an iota of doubt.

My Mother-a tribute of a yearning son, is a book that portrays the chain of events covering the showing of the first symptoms in the author's mother, the diagnosis process taken up for confirming it to be cancer, her treatment including a major surgery, the physical and psychological trauma which the author's mother and her family members went through during the toughest time of their lives.The prose part of the book narrates the above incidents whereas the poetry part consists of poems dedicated to author's mother and all the mothers round the globe in all her forms.

This year, 1.4 million people will learn for the first time that they have cancer ---3,836 per day. Cancer is not a disease of which you are a victim. It is a process: Which you can master. Anyone can conquer cancer and in doing so, one may see a cure. So many questions that seemed to have zero answers and yet there is always a 'maybe'. How can I possibly help myself? How do I tap the mental and spiritual resources available to me? The journey of Faith begins with... - Beliefs and the power they have in the cancer journey. - Choices of the human mind and spirit and how they can move our bodies directly toward wellness. - Life and making the decision for love, joy, and peace even if illness may be present. - Spiritual growth and aligning human will with a loving God's will. A journey of faith that carries a message of Hope... hope that can always change your life, add to the length of your life and the quality of your life. Keep your hope alive. You have the power to contribute to your recovery. My wish for you is to have Peace of Mind Not just to Survive cancer. - Thomas F. Gregg Cancer Conqueror