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Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness

Jon Kabat-zinn

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Great little book 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 11 people found this review helpful.

I have only just received the book. I can tell it is going to be a keeper!

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Mindfulness opens us up to the possibility of being fully human as we are, and of expressing the humane in our way of being. Mindlessness de facto closes us up and denies us the fullness of our being alive. This book may on the surface appear to be merely another offering in the genre of daily readings. But deep within these 108 selections lie messages of profound wisdom in a contemporary and practical form that can lead to both healing and transformation. We so urgently need to rotate in consciousness in order to safeguard what precious sanity is available to us on this planet. How we carry ourselves will determine the direction the world takes because, in a very real way, we are the world we inhabit. Our world is continuously being shaped by our participation in everything around us and within us through mindfulness. This is the great work of awareness. Welcome to the threshold … to the fullness of arriving at your own door!

Cancer on $5 a Day* *(chemo not included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life

Robert Schimmel, Alan Eisenstock

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Total reviews: 25 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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In the spring of 2000, Robert Schimmel was riding high. He’d won the Stand-Up of the Year Award, his HBO special was a huge hit, and his sitcom had been picked up. And then it all came crashing down. Diagnosed with Stage III non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, he was told he would have to undergo chemotherapy immediately. The sitcom was dumped and the fire of his white-hot career started to go out. But Schimmel never lost his sense of humor, his knife-like edge, and most of all, his passion to entertain. Indeed, it was his basic need to laugh-even if the only people around him were suffering from cancer and the room he was playing was the Mayo Clinic infusion center-that carried him through his ordeal. From his colorful banter with nurses and other patients during chemo, to his hilarious conversation with a wig salesman, going for the laugh was Robert Schimmel’s survival mechanism. Alternately laugh-out-loud funny and profound, Cancer on Five Dollars a Day is an honest account of how one man’s face-off with a deadly disease helped him better understand himself.

Beating Cancer with Nutrition

Patrick Quillin

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Total reviews: 79 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Beating Cancer with Nutrition · Sugar feeds Cancer: diet and supplements can starve tumors
· Nutrition makes chemo and radiation more toxic to the tumor while protecting the patient
· Nutrition changes underlying causes of cancer, improving outcome for cancer patients regardless of other therapies. Why Beating Cancer with Nutrition is unique: The book was developed after working with over 500 cancer patients and organizing 3 international symposiums on the subject. The information contained in BCN is both scientifically backed with references and clinically proven in the hospital with patients. This information helps cancer patients to improve quality and quantity of life. BCN had been translated into Japanese and Chinese and is being translated into Korean. BCN had become a home study continuing education course for registered nurses. BCN 2001 version will contain a 72-minute audio CD version in response to the requests from tired cancer patients who said they needed and audio version of the book to get started. BCN had sold 110,000 copies in 7 years in print, which is impressive for small publishers. Why Patrick Quillin is Unique: For the past 10 years, Dr. Patrick Quillin has served as the Director of Nutrition for Cancer Treatment Centers of America. He is an internationally respected expert in the area of nutrition and cancer. He has earned his bachelor's, Master's and doctorate degrees in nutrition and is a registered and licensed dietitian ( RD & LD) and Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS) with the American College of Nutrition.

Foods to Fight Cancer: Essential foods to help prevent cancer

Richard Beliveau

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Excellent Book! 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

This is an excellent book that goes into the hows and whys of the various anti-cancer foods. The book is filled with great info you won't easily find elsewhere, such as that not all Green Tea is the same when it comes to EGCG content (Japanese Green Tea has more than Chinese Green Tea). Why not swing the odds of living a long healthy life in your favor as much as possible? Eat the foods talked about in this book and you'll increase your odds of dodging the cancer bullet.

Pretty good book 3 out of 5 stars.
3 of 5 people found this review helpful.

I was expecting the book to talk about more foods than it did, but still overall some good information. Nice pictures and layout.

Editorial Review:

Detailing the key foods that have been medically shown to be beneficial in both preventing and fighting cancer, this is the must-have resource for anyone looking to get healthy and stay that way. AUTHOR BIO: Richard Béliveau, PhD, a leading authority in cancer research, holds the Chair in the Prevention and Treatment of Cancer at the Université du Quebec à Montréal, where he is a professor of biochemistry. Denis Gingras, PhD, in an oncology researcher at the Centre de cancérologie Charles-Bruneau.

Cancer: 50 Essential Things to Do: Revised and Updated Edition

Greg Anderson, O. Carl Simonton (Foreword)

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Total reviews: 18 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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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.

* Preface by Kenneth Cooper, M.D., M.P.H.
* Foreword by O. Carl Simonton, M.D.

"Expert instruction and loving encouragement--the wisdom of someone who has made the journey from near death to a healed life."--Bernie Siegel, M.D.

Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book:4th Edition 2005

Susan Love

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Total reviews: 72 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book has been considered the bible of breast-care books since it appeared in 1990. In 1995, Love completely updated the book in a 600-page second edition, including new biopsy and screening methods, implants, the pros and cons of hormone therapy, new discoveries in breast-cancer treatment, and many other topics. Every chapter has been rewritten, with the exception of the anatomy chapter ("The breast, I'm glad to report, is still located on the chest!"). Love presents copious medical information in a simple, welcoming style, and plentiful illustrations make the information even clearer. About two-thirds of the book deals with breast cancer: risk factors, prevention, screening, diagnosis, staging, emotions, treatment options, surgery, alternative treatments, clinical trials, and more. But the book isn't just about breast cancer. It's also about breast development, physiology, bras, nursing, sexuality--if it has to do with breasts, Love discusses it. Love also debunks breast myths: underwire bras do not cause cancer, neither do bruises or injuries; "fibrocystic disease" isn't really a disease. The book includes a wealth of resources: books, treatment centers, and organizations (but no Web sites--perhaps in the third edition?). --Joan Price

Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia Deluxe Labcoat Pocket Edition, Ninth Edition (Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia)

Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Great Book 4 out of 5 stars.
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This book is very useful. My only complaint is that it doesn't tell you the mechanism of action of the drugs, so if you are still at that stage in learning it is not as helpful. However, it does have all the other information you need.

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Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia, 2008 Deluxe Lab-Coat Pocket Edition continues the high-quality tradition of a convenient and organized pocket manual detailing typical drug dosing (both FDA approved and off-label uses), available trade and generic formulations, metabolism, Canadian drug names, relative pricing information, and safety in pregnancy and lactation. The Deluxe takes it all a step further by including additional drugs and dosing indications, black-box warnings, notes regarding adverse effects and drug interactions, and a table of cytochrome P450 isozymes. Packed with this expanded information and more tables than the Classic, the Deluxe is still small enough to comfortably fit in your labcoat pocket, and its new and improved tear resistant, water resistant Kivar cover makes it a practical, convenient tool to use anywhere. As with the Classic, all entries are meticulously peer-reviewed by drug information experts and clinicians of multiple specialties.

Natural Strategies For Cancer Patients

Russell Blaylock M.D.

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EXCELLENT INFO ON SUPPLEMENTS TARGETTING TUMOR SUPRESSION 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

My 43 year old husband was recently diagnosed with terminal lung cancer as a result of his radiation treatment 10 years ago for his Hogkins lymphoma. He underwent 4 months of chemo and also was fortunate to consult with a oncology nutritionist who recommended various supplements, some used in Europe for cancer therapy and not classified there as "supplements". My husband has the rarest type of lung cancer and it is typically described as the least responsive to chemo. The supplements recommended by the nutritionist target tumor supression, and angiogenesis (the ability of a tumor to create it's own blood vessels and spread). I bought this book because I was wowed and awed by another book of his, "Nutrional secrets that will save your life", or something like that. That the author is a neurosurgeon got my attention as someone I could likely trust to adequately research what supplements are effective for cancer. The book is easy to read and explains the action of the cancer fighting supplements, and is appropriate for readers without a medical background. I highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in learning how to not only safely fight cancer (and without all the side effects of Western medicine) but also how to prevent cancer and increase their overall immune system.

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How to Fight Cancer & Win

William L. Fischer

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A comprehensive list of all alternative and orthodox treatments for cancer 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 7 people found this review helpful.

Having been recently diagnosed with colon cancer (removed by operation) and liver cancer (secondary) I needed to know some answers regarding future treatments. Having heard and seen the results of the 'orthodox' route I wanted none of that! This book informed me of all of the alternatives on offer and covered each protocol very thoroughly. I highly recommend this book to every cancer sufferer. You will not be disappointed. Incidentally I chose the Budwig route.

The Truth Is Out There... I Hope 5 out of 5 stars.
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I recently reviewed Prof. Randy Pausch's book, The Last Lecture. While I read the whole book, so far I've only watched the first three minutes of his YouTube lecture. He was an engaging and entertaining speaker for those three minutes, and I plan to watch the film in its entirety soon. I was somewhat saddened when he advised the audience not to foist herbs and other "quack" remedies upon him. By then he had already undergone surgery and chemotherapy and his prognosis was dire. This particular book and any other "alternative" remedy applied after that lecture would have more than likely been futile. Prof. Pausch was arguably a far more intelligent man than myself; but let me ask you a question. If orthodox medical science offered you no more than a 4% chance to survive the particular cancer that claimed the good Professor, would you still swing for the bleachers with all that orthodox medicine has to offer? When a person who eschews traditional medicine passes away from cancer after their alternative medicine failed, they are referred to as victims of quacks. When people who pass away from cancer underwent traditional medicine, they have simply lost their brave battle. When Michael Landon passed away from pancreatic cancer in 1991; I thought, "what chance do the rest of us have?"
I am sure that there are many cancer dialog sites out there with many recommendations. Perhaps some of them suggest that: 1) piercing (biopsy) a tumor might help to spread it, 2) squeezing (mammogram) a tumor might help to spread it, 3) by accident or by no way to avoid it cutting into a tumor (surgery) might help to spread it, 4) chemotherapy is toxic enough to compromise your immune system. So the question then becomes, can alternative remedies be of service to someone who undergoes a treatment that degrades their immune system or has allowed an encapsulated tumor to escape through the lymph system? If this topic is of the utmost importance to you and you are exploring your options, I honestly wish you nothing but the best. If you haven't read How to Fight Cancer & Win, this book is a good start. Consider reading The Jason Winters Story. Research ultraviolet light therapy and hydrogen peroxide therapy. I won't and can't say how any alternative therapy will work compared to traditional medicine, but do consider what active role you can play in your own health structure. I guess what bothers me is that books and other information such as that contained in Fight Cancer are regarded as dangerous quackery while big pharmacy and medicine quash both legitimate exploration/discussion and quite possibly cheap therapies while maintaining a batting average no better than (and maybe much worse than) those very alternatives.

8/28/08 update: Although the following alternative therapy was not mentioned in the Fight Cancer book, I just came across it, and it is worth mentioning here. See what you can find out about Aglycon Sapogenin (AGS) and Dammarane Sapogenin. The word is that these components starve out some types of cancer tumors including pancreatic cancer. Since its' discovery is relatively new, I haven't heard much about it myself.

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Maximize your chance of recovery from cancer - and learn how to prevent it - with this down-to-earth, practical guide that has saved and improved lives since its first publishing in 1992. This accessible book presents scientific guidelines and documented facts for the successful treatment and prevention of cancer and other health problems, and is a must-read for everyone, from those looking for a cure for cancer to those looking for a roadmap to surefire prevention.

Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips (Crazy Sexy)

Kris Carr

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Actress and photographer Kris Carr thought she had a hangover, but a Jivamukti yoga class didn’t provide its usual kick-ass cure. A visit to her doctor confirmed her “liver looked like Swiss cheese,” covered with cancerous tumors. She entered trench warfare (wearing cowboy boots into the MRI machine, no less), vowing, “Cancer needed a makeover and I was just the gal to do it!” She began writing and filming her journey, documenting her interactions with friends, doctors, alternative “quacks,” blind dates, and other women with cancer—sadly a growing group. These include hip, young women such as illustrator-author Marisa Acocella Marchetto (Cancer Vixen), Glamour writer-editor Erin Zammett (My So-Called Normal Life), MTV personality Diem Brown (Real World/Road Rules Challenge), model Sharon Blynn (founder, Bald Is Beautiful), and music manager Jackie Farry, among others. The Learning Channel broadcast the premiere of Carr’s unforgettable documentary, Crazy Sexy Cancer on August 29, 2007.
CRAZY SEXY CANCER TIPS gathers the lessons learned and advice offered from Carr’s own journey, as well as the experiences of her cancer posse. Full-color photos accompany personal stories and candid revelations in this scrapbook of advice, warnings, and resources for the cancer patient. Chapters cover your changing social life, dating, sex, and appearance; essential health tips on how to boost your immune system; recipes; medical and holistic resources; and information on young survivor support groups. The resulting book is a warm, yet informative tool for any woman newly diagnosed with the disease and for those who love them.