Books for Healthy Living
As a cancer survivor myself, I thoroughly enjoyed Three Months: A caregiving journey from heartbreak to healing. I believe the role of the primary cancer caregiver is the unsung hero in cancer management today. Dietrich Stroeh's ability to author a book about such an emotional experience and infuse it with helpful caregiver advice makes this book a must-read for all cancer caregivers.
When you are diagnosed with cancer you need lots of information... fast. QC speaks to many of the key issues that need to be understood when considering conventional chemotherapy. Dr. Moss has been researching and writing about cancer for more than 30 years and I have relied on his words for more than 10 years. If you want to learn about conventional chemotherapy, read Questioning Chemotherapy.
The first 3 years of my cancer experience was aggressive conventional oncology with toxicity, side effects and relapses followed by 2 years of a controversial alternative cancer therapy that put me into complete remission. This period of "you have cancer" to cancer-free status left my head spinning. If Antineoplaston therapy put me in complete remission, Dr. Balch and his book "The Super Anti-oxidants" has kept me there. Regardless of where you are in your cancer journey- newly diagnosed, active therapy, post therapy, long term survivor- you need read this book to learn about nutrition, supplementation and the "integration of the whole."
I read "Life Over Cancer" while I was authoring my first online cancer community "Beating-Myeloma.org." LOC opened my eyes to the fact that 1) "the person diagnosed with cancer can take specific measures to reverse the course of the disease and keep it from returning" and 2) "that people with cancer can realize optimal health a better quality of life and lifelong remissions." LOC became the reason I then broadened Beating-Myeloma.org to PeopleBeatingCancer.org. Thank you Dr. Block.
If you have been diagnosed with cancer-particularly breast or prostate cancer-you need to read this book before you undergo any therapy. Written by a credible source, Gilbert Welch is a medical doctor and a professor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. I found the book to be well-written, easy-to-read and key to my own understanding of the world of conventional oncology. I truly believe that this book has helped me maintain my 17 plus years of survivorship.
Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski (Dr. B), Antineoplastons (ANP) and The Burzynski Research Institute (BRI) has got to be the most controversial doctor, therapy and clinic, respectively, of any cancer therapy I have come across in my cancer survivorship dating back to my original diagnosis in '94. I am not a medical doctor, scientist or FDA official so I can't speak to ANP and BRI negatives. I am a cancer survivor who underwent 3 years of aggressive conventional therapies, was told that nothing more could be done for me, given six months to live, then underwent ANP therapy over 17 months. I became cancer free where I remain today. The book is largely anecdotal but the "revised edition" contains clinical data that may be helpful to cancer survivors interested in learning more about ANP. If you want to ask me about my ANP experience, send me an email at http://peoplebeatingcancer.org/contact