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One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins (Science Masters)

Robert A. Weinberg

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Cancer research has reached a major turning point. The quality and quantity of information gathered about this disease in the past twenty years has revolutionized our understanding of its origins and behavior. No one is better qualified to comment on these dramatic leaps forward than molecular biologist Robert A. Weinberg, director of one of the leading cancer research centers in the world. In One Renegade Cell, Weinberg presents an accessible and state-of-the-art account of how the disease begins and how, one day, it will be cured.Weinberg tells how the roots of cancer were uncovered in 1909 and when the first cancer-causing virus was discovered. He then moves forward to the discovery of the role of chemical carcinogens and radiation in triggering cancer, and relates the remarkable story of the discoveries of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes, the master controllers of normal and malignant cell proliferation.This book, which presumes little prior knowledge of biology, describes the revolution in biomedical research that has finally uncovered the forces driving malignant growth. Drawing on insights that simply were not available until recently, the discoveries presented in One Renegade Cell have already begun to profoundly alter the way that we diagnose and treat human cancers.

Waking the Warrior Goddess: Dr. Christine Horner's Program to Protect Against and Fight Breast Cancer

Christine Horner

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Breast cancer has reached epidemic proportions. Once a relatively rare disease, it now affects two to three million American women, and the incidence is growing at an alrming rate. What can we do to protect ourselves? Christine Horner, M.D., has the prescription: Eat healthy foods, add a good dose of specific supplements, get adequate rest and exercise, and avoid those things that have negative effects on our bodies. Using the metaphor of the Warrior the Goddess, this book explains what Ayurveda-an ancient system of healing-describes as our "inner healing intelligence." It explores the various foods, supplements, and health-promoting strategies that can enable women to successfully fight breasty cancer and claim the healthy body that should be theirs. Dr. Horner explains what to avoid and what to embrace, what will poison the Warrior Goddess and what will feed her, and what she needs to thrive. "Waking the Warrior Goddess sums up with Dr. Horner's program for reclaiming health and defeating breast cancer. Each step is presented as a new strategy to implement into one's daily life. The program focuses on those nutrients and activities that bring health, vitality, and longevity to women. An extensive rersources section lists contacts for obtaining various nutrients and toxin-free products to keep your Warrior Goddess strong and healthy.

How to Fight Cancer and Win

William L. Fischer

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The Emphasis Is On Prevention 3 out of 5 stars.
10 of 10 people found this review helpful.

The title is a bit of a misnomer since the text concentrates mostly on prevention and devotes less than ten pages to traditional cancer treatments plus only one chapter to alternative treatments.The main prevention topics include linseed oil, macrobiotic diet, visualization therapy, bee pollen, nutrition and foods to avoid.

The glossary is brief and the list of resources very limited. I can only recommend this book as a general introduction to the subject of cancer prevention and treatment. The text is already somewhat dated in spite of its claim to be recently revised.

How to fight cancer & win 4 out of 5 stars.
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This is a very indepth account of what to do to fight cancer and win. Dr Budwig's Flaxseed Oil and cottage cheese remedy is an absolute winner. I can speak from experience because I'm taking this remedy for my cancer and so far the tumours are slowly shrinking. I would highly recommend this book to any cancer sufferers or to anyone who want's to prevent cancer.

Keeping aBreast: Ways to PREVENT Breast Cancer

Khalid Mahmud

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Breast cancer will strike one out of every 8 women. It is the disease women dread the most. It can disfigure, mutilate and scar womanhood; and its therapy can impair quality of life. Yet there is no concentrated medical effort to prevent it. Physicians focus is on early detection. They simply do not counsel their patients on breast cancer prevention. This book provides clear strategies to reduce the risk of breast cancer - strategies that are not only based on the author's experience as an oncologist, but also on an extensive review of the scientific literature. These strategies consist of simple and natural measures: things to take and things to do, with little or no use of pharmaceuticals. This is a book for all women.

Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Cancer: An Integrative Approach to Prevention, Treatment, and Healing (Alternative Medicine Guides)

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Definitive rubbish! 1 out of 5 stars.
7 of 12 people found this review helpful.

This book is horrid. It pretends to give a "balanced" view of traditional allopathic medicine's approach to cancer, versus alt-medicine. There are actually more than half the pages devoted to the latter. But the orientation of the authors is pathetic. They basically view alt approaches as some do-nothing supplement to traditional chop/burn/poison treatments. As many people are aware, if you have been systematically poisoned by chemo or radiation, alt-medicine has very little to help you. Nowhere in the book do the authors present an alt-medicine approach that is usable, detailed (dosages, etc.) and endorsed as the person's sole strategy.

For decent advice, please read:
The Natural Way to Heal: 65 Ways to Create Superior Health, by Walter Last. If you are too poor to buy this (inexpensive) book, Last has a web site where he gives much of the same information (but it is easier to have it all collected into a book, in my view).

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The second edition of this comprehensive guide to cancer helps patients and their caregivers learn about causes and prevention of cancer; offset the side effects of conventional medicine; evaluate effective alternative treatments; utilize natural therapies involving diet, lifestyle, and nutritional supplements; and achieve deep healing through a mind-body-spirit approach. Featuring in-depth discussions of 20 specific cancers, including detailed descriptions of integrative treatments, this accessibly written guide is an invaluable tool for understanding and implementing integrative and complementary cancer care.

9 Steps for Reversing or Preventing Cancer

Shivani Goodman, Jack Canfield, O. Carl Simonton

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9 steps for reversing or preventing cancer 5 out of 5 stars.
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Very simple and outstanding way of getting the message across. Cancer can be cured without drugs or surgery.

9 Steps for Reversing or Preventing Cancer and Other Diseases: Learn to Heal from Within 5 out of 5 stars.
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Great book everyone shpuld read it

The Power of the Mind 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book is chock full of meditations for self-healing, no matter what the disease or complaint. The premise of this book is the mind-body connection, that we are ultimately responsible for our own state of health.

Shivani's writing style is easy to read, as if you were chatting comfortably with a good friend. I have tweaked my daily meditation sessions with suggestions found in this book. I wish Amazon sold Shivani Goodman's audio recordings to go along with this book, but this volume is a must-have for those interested in self-healing. You won't be disappointed.

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9 Steps for Reversing or Preventing Cancer and Other Diseases is a powerful synthesis of ancient self-healing knowledge that had been buried for centuries, combined with the latest researched Western body/mind medicine techniques. * Watch your life begin to change as soon as you take the first step. * Experience miracles as you utilize the power of your mind to heal. * The more you learn to vibrate with joy, love, peace and passion, the more you attract and manifest your goals into your reality. * Your view of life shifts as you lift the veil that is hiding your authentic self. * Connect with the Doctor and the Source within you and solve any problem. * Learn the 5-Minute Cure Exercise that a physician practiced three times a day-and healed his colon cancer within a week.

Surviving Terminal Cancer: Clinical Trials, Drug Cocktails, and Other Treatments Your Oncologist Won't Tell You About

Ben A. Williams

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12 Year Survivor of a 2 Year Disease 5 out of 5 stars.
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The Gold Standard treatment for Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) brain tumors is a combination of surgery, radiation and the chemotherapy themozolomide (Temodar / Temodal).

Untreated, GBM uniformly kills its victims within four months.

For 10% of all patients treated with radiation, that survival expectation increases to two years. At four years, 3% of the original group will still be alive.

Add Temodar and surgery to that radiation, and 27% of those treated can expect to survive to two years. At four years, 12% of those treated with the Gold Standard combination will still be alive.

University study press releases cheer the dramatic increase in surivival rates for patients receiving Tamodar along with radiation and surgery. From 10% to 27% for two years and from 3% to 12% for four years are big jumps.

While the numbers do represent a significant increase, the fact remains that at four years, 88% of those receiving the Gold Standard treatment for Glioblastoma Multiforme tumors will be dead.

In 1995, before Temodar was anywhere near the marketplace, Dr. Ben Williams discovered that he had a large Glioblastoma Multiforme tumor. Williams looked at the survival rates for those receiving the recommended treatment and did not like the odds.

A research scientist and academic, Williams scoured every resource to create a state-of-the-art Glioblastoma Multiforme protocol. He received all of the standard treatment, which he supplemented with six other anti-cancer, pro-immune agents (and aspirin for the side effects).

Williams combined the prescribed treatment:
* Surgery (which left mass behind)
* Radiation
* BCNU chemotherapy
* PCV chemotherapy

With these addition of these agents:
* Tamoxifen
* Verapamil
* Accutane
* Melatonin
* Mushroom extract
* Gamma Linolenic Acid
* Aspirin

The treatment the oncologist recommended was certain to result in Williams' death. Yet the doctor refused any treatment outside the standard protocol, for fear of doing harm.

Williams believed that nothing was more harmful than death. The oncologist only budged a little. He gave Williams some Tamoxifen. Everything else Williams took to reduce his tumor - including a higher dose of Tamoxifen than the oncologist would prescribe -- he researched and obtained on his own.

A 1995 Gold Standard for GBM tumor treatment did not exist. The oncologist offered surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. The difference between 1995 and 2007 is the accuracy of the radiation and the quality of the chemotherapy.

At two years from diagnosis - when 92% of patients receiving standard treatment would be dead - Williams received the first of what is now 12 years of clean MRIs.

Williams regards his low-toxicity drug cocktail as a synergistic weapon against glioblastoma multiforme. He compares the current Gold Standard GBM treatment to the AZT AIDS treatment. Although AZT worked at first, the body developed a resistance to it. No more HIV patients were alive at four years on AZT than off of it.

GBM cancer cells also adapt to chemotherapy. They're not adept at adapting to the low-toxicity cocktail Williams invented. The Accutane prevented the cancer cells from consuming the cells nearby. The Tamoxifen slowed the cancer cells' ability to extrude out the chemotherapy. The Gamma-Linolenic Acid produced free radicals inside the tumor, killing it from the inside out.

As a rule, oncologists do not offer these treatments to brain tumor patients. These treatments are not "proven." If the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has not blessed the substance then the doctor will not prescribe it, even if the doctor's treatment itself means almost certain death.

Doctors know, says Williams, that their patients will die. So what is the problem prescribing low-toxicity agents that might cure brain tumors?

Going outside the system can have a dramatically negative affect on a doctor's career. He might be accused of fraud, profiteering or incompetence. In a profession based on the credo "First, do no harm," doctors would first like to do no harm to their own careers.

Doctors find themselves trapped between the FDA and the medical self-policing infra-structure on the one hand, and certain death for their patients on the other.

Doctors won't prescribe the cocktail agents Williams took because they are not "proven" according to FDA standards. The approval process requires billions of dollars. Pharmaceutical companies won't research drugs that will not be economically viable. The drug must be exclusive to the pharmaceutical company. The population requiring the drug must be large enough to expect a return on investment.

Many of the agents Williams used to cure his cancer are not patentable. Competitors would be able to copy and sell the compound. About 12,000 people a year are diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme tumors. The market is not large enough to justify very expensive scientific trials.

Beaten down by disease, radiation and chemotherapy, few GBM patients have the energy to climb the hurdles to promising but not "proven" treatments. Even when the outcome is certain death patients who ask for more will not receive it. Just as AIDS patients created political pressure to get "unproven" treatments for HIV, Williams encourages GBM patients to insist on access to "unproven" treatments for GBM.

Dispensing only "proven" treatment is legal, says Williams. But denying dying patients access to substances that could save their lives is grossly unethical. Already fighting the deadliest of brain tumors, patients should not have to fight for promising but "unproven" cures. Until the political pressure on the FDA reaches a critical mass, he says, the GBM Gold Standard Treatment will still produce a four year death rate of 88%.


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Describes how to use the Internet and other sources to learn about experimental drug trials, effective forms of alternative medicine, and other breakthroughs with the potential for dramatically improving the odds of successful treatment.

What Helped Me Get Through: Cancer Survivors Share Wisdom and Hope

Julie K. Silver

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Helping Hands, Helping Hearts

. �You're one in a million." For millions of cancer survivors, this is a. singular declaration of appreciation-often borne of personal stories. shared. with others who are going through cancer. Here in one volume are. hundreds. of invaluable suggestions, words of support, encouragement, and hope,. generously shared by survivors, medical experts, and celebrities from. around the world. These are the things the docs don't have time to tell. us.. Pass it on.. . . . .

"So much wisdom, strength, and courage can be gained from listening to others . who have been there. This book provides much-needed inspiration for people with . cancer, or any illness for that matter, and all those who love and care for them."

. . Ann H. Partridge, MD, MPH . Director, Program for Young Women with Breast Cancer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute . Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. . .

�When one is truly inspired and wants to be a survivor, information derived from the experience of others is vital. The natives know how to help one another because of their experience. Read and learn from the wisdom of others and save yourself from having to learn the hard way.�

. . Bernie Siegel, MD author Love, Medicine And Miracles and Help Me To Heal

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�I am always amazed by the incredible resilience of many people who are diagnosed with cancer. It is truly a privilege to share their journey and provide guidance when I can. There are other times when I am discouraged by the unfairness of the disease, and especially the side effects of our treatments. These often wreak havoc with life plans-the absence of children, the inability to work and achieve other life goals-and the specter of recurrent cancer. We are working hard to prevent cancer and to reduce the burden and toxicity of treatments so that survivors in the future may have an easier time.�

. Patricia A. Ganz, MD. Professor, UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health. Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research. Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. 650 Charles Young Dr. South, Room A2-125 CHS. Los Angeles, CA 90095-6900. .

My husband put it best: "A cancer diagnosis is like getting dropped off in a foreign country where you don't know the language." This book gives patients a guidebook to help them navigate the difficult world of cancer treatment written by those who have already made the journey. Treatment is tough, but it's so much more manageable when you know what to expect. I credit so many survivors with giving me the information I needed to get through treatment. This book puts all the stuff you need to know in one place. It's a must-have for anyone looking to make their cancer journey easier.

. Kelley Tuthill . Reporter . WCVB-TV Boston . Breast Cancer Survivor .

East of the Mountains

David Guterson

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It is mid-October, 1997, harvest time in the Columbia Basin of central Washington state, a rich apple- and pear-growing region. Ben Givens, recently widowed, is a retired heart surgeon, once admired for his steadiness of hand, his precision, his endurance. He has terminal colon cancer. While Ben does not readily accept defeat, he is determined to avoid suffering rather than engage it. And so, accompanied by his two hunting dogs, he sets out through the mythic American West-sage deserts, yawning canyons, dusty ranches, vast orchards-on his last hunt. The main issues for Ben as a doctor had been tactical and so it would be with his death. But he hadn't considered the persuasiveness of memory-the promise he made to his wife Rachel, the love of his life, during World War II. Or life's mystery. On his journey he meets a young couple who are "forever," a drifter offering left-handed advice that might lessen the pain, a veterinarian with a touch only a heart surgeon would recognize, a rancher bent on destruction, a migrant worker who tests Ben's ability to understand. And just when he thinks there is no turning back, nothing to lose that wasn't lost, his power of intervention is called upon and his very identity tested. Full of humanity, passion, and moral honesty, East of the Mountains is a bold and beautiful novel of personal discovery.

Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle For Survival at the South Pole

Jerri Nielsen, Mary Anne Vollers

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Lacks Insight 2 out of 5 stars.
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This book provides the "behind the scenes" details of the experience of Jerri Nielsen who was diagnosed with and forced to treat her own breast cancer using non-medical personnel while she was the only doctor stationed at the South Pole during polar winter. Much of the book is about her experience of life at the pole and her relationships with her fellow "Polies".

As someone who began reading this with very little knowledge of the South Pole station, I most enjoyed the information about what life is like there for the brave and crazy folks who opt to winter-over at the coldest place on earth. They are unreachable by even the most advanced aviation because jet fuel turns to Jell-o in the horrifically cold weather they experience. It was interesting to hear description of what they wore, where they slept, how they kept warm, how they entertained themselves and how they remained connected to the outside world. At the time of Dr. Nielsen's employment (1999), they only had a satellite available for a few hours a day to exchange emails and contact with their friends and family. One interesting tidbit of information, while then-President Clinton visited New Zealand all usage of the satellite was reserved for him. I know so much about this because the book includes many emails. These are edited for length but otherwise replicated in their entirety. It becomes tiresome to read other people's email including To, From, Subject etc., but in some ways provides the only true insight the book offers into the experience.

My personal response to this book is that I just don't feel that Dr. Nielsen is a reliable narrator about her personal or interior life. Whether this is her fault or that of her co-author, I cannot say. I felt that she chose to take a stance as both victim and hero as opposed to just a regular old person in a horrible situation. Her descriptions of her relationships with her estranged children and ex-husband strike me as disproportionately favorable to her as do the descriptions of her childhood, parents etc. It may not be true that she considers herself either a victim or hero, but that is what I felt the "voice" used in the book implied. It feels somehow like she is being less than honest about her internal experience of the events described or rather that her level of honesty and experience has somehow been retarded so that she is having the emotional experiences that someone would normally have much earlier in their life than at 47 years old. When compared to a memoir written by someone like Mary Karr or Jeannette Walls or even Roseanne Barr, there is a noticeable lack of honest reflection and self-awareness that should have been addressed by an editor or the co-author who, one assumes, is a professional writer. There was a great deal of telling in a narrative that should have been laden with insight, feeling and action. This absence is particularly noticeable when reading the emails from Dr. Nielsen's oncologist, Dr. Kathy Miller, which are filled with empathy, decency and passion. They give her a distinct "self" that no other person in the book has including Dr. Nielsen herself.

I can only recommend this book as an introduction to life at the South Pole. I intend to find other, better books to increase my knowledge of that fascinating place and the people who work there.

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During the winter of 1999, Dr. Jerri Nielsen, the only physician on a staff of forty-one people, discovered a lump in her breast. Consulting via satellite e-mail with doctors in the United States, she was forced to perform a biopsy and treat herself with chemotherapy in order to ensure that she could survive until conditions permitted her rescue. She was eventually rescued by the Air National Guard. Dr. Jerri Nielsens story of her transforming experiences is a thrilling adventure and moving drama. She has written a new chapter for this edition. Since the publication of Ice Bound in hardcover in January 2000, Dr. Nielsen has inspired people throughout the country, met hundreds of fans, received numerous awards including Irish American of the Year, which was presented to her by Hillary Clinton, as well as tremendous praise from the media.