Synopses & Reviews
2.5 million women in the U.S. have had a breast cancer diagnosis; more than 200,000 women are diagnosed each year. While recovery and survival rates have improved, selecting a treatment plan can be confusing and overwhelming.
Breast Cancer: 50 Essential Things You Can Do offers a roadmap for women facing breast cancer. Cancer-survivor Greg Anderson, a recognized pioneer in the field of integrated cancer care, has guided tens-of-thousands of cancer patients to health and healing over the past 25 years, through his books and his Cancer Recovery Foundation. In this new book he offers critical information about the major issues patients face following a breast cancer diagnosis, and shows how to implement a comprehensive recovery plan that maximizes opportunity for healing and recovery.
This is a fully integrative approach--one that questions Western medicine's tendency to overtreat and proposes a combination of nutrition, exercise, mind/body approaches, and social support along with conventional medical care.
Breast Cancer: 50 Essential Things You Can Do shows how to get well and stay well by:
--Understanding your diagnosis
--Determining your treatment
--Managing your medical care
--Transforming your diet
--Designing a vitamin and mineral supplement program
--Minimizing toxic exposure, implementing an exercise program, and getting enough sleep
--Creating physical, emotional and spiritual health
This is a life-saving guide for anyone with breast cancer--whether it's a new diagnosis or a recurrence--to become fully engaged in her own health and healing.
Review
"The author and founder of Cancer Recovery International, a global affiliation of national charities, is also a lung cancer survivor who 27 years ago was told he had 30 days to live. Not only did Anderson survive but his organization went on to study cancer in depth, between 1986 and 2008 interviewing and surveying 16,000 cancer survivors. His holistic approach to cancer recovery is based on six essential strategies: medical treatment, nutrition, attitude, support, exercise, and spirituality. Anderson contends that while conventional treatment should be embraced, women can take other steps that are at least as important. His goal is to help breast cancer victims develop and implement an individual recovery plan, becoming active participants not just in treating illness but also in creating health. Readers may find some of Anderson's advice disturbing, i.e., his recommendation to forgo annual mammograms unless a lump is found and opt instead for yearly clinical exams and regular self-exams. Other observations are eye-opening and potentially lifesaving; He hails the preventive and curative effects of Vitamin D supplements (noting that its power has been largely ignored by the government and health-care industry) as well as the breast health benefits of low-dose aspirin. This is an important and hopeful vision of breast cancer that views treating the tumor as only one element in a comprehensive action plan to balance and heal body, mind, and spirit." -Publisher's Weekly(Oct. 2011)
Synopsis
A Fully Integrative Approach to Breast CancerYour roadmap for facing breast cancer. While recovery and survival rates for breast cancer have improved, the shock and confusion that comes with a diagnosis remains overwhelming, as does choosing a plan of treatment. With so many options out there, each one backed by experts claiming it to be the best, it's difficult to know the best option for you. This is where an integrated approach comes in, and Greg Anderson, founder of the Cancer Recovery Foundation, is here to help.
A combination of healing tactics. In utilizing a variety of tools for healing, you maximize opportunity for healing. As someone who has been a cancer patient himself, Anderson knows the feeling of being overwhelmed by the possibilities. Because of this, he helps readers form a plan that combines the best of the best: nutrition, exercise, mind/body approaches, and social support along with conventional medical care.
Implement a recovery plan. As a recognized pioneer in the field of integrated cancer care, Anderson offers critical information and advice to readers about the major issues they will face as a patient following a breast cancer diagnosis. Knowing the uncertainty that accompanies the journey, Anderson doesn't just offer his readers advice, he guides them toward making a concrete, comprehensive recovery plan.
Read Breast Cancer: 50 Essential Things to Do by Greg Anderson and discover:
- A guide to health and healing from one of the world's leading wellness authorities
- An approach to recovery that calls into question Western medicine's tendency to overtreat
- Advice for cultivating physical, emotional, and spiritual health
Readers of books such as Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book, Radical Remission, and Heal Breast Cancer Naturally will find a further source of hope and healing in Breast Cancer: 50 Essential Things to Do.
About the Author
Christine Northrup, MD, is the author of the bestselling Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom. Erica A. Harvey is the Executive Director of Breast Cancer Charities of America.