A revealing critique of chemotherapy, this book looks objectively at chemo's successes and failures.

This gripping and controversial classic exposes the political and economic forces inside the cancer establishment.

An informative, compassionate guide for cancer patients and their loved ones Each year, more than 1 million people get treated for cancer, and most of these will undergo chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or both. This reassuring, optimistic guide helps people get a handle on treatment options and explains in plain English how chemotherapy and radiation therapy really work. It offers detailed advice on how to alleviate and cope with side effects-which range from hair loss to nausea to anemia-and describes how good nutrition, meditation, support groups, and other techniques and resources can help in the recovery process.

Getting cancer is like a bomb going off in your life. Having chemotherapy can feel like another bomb. When faced with chemotherapy, you have many questions—but searching for answers on the internet can be overwhelming and pamphlets from your oncologist don’t begin to tell you all you need to know. In Braving Chemo, Harvard-educated physician and cancer survivor Beverly A. Zavaleta MD combines her medical expertise with a survivor’s insight to provide practical advice for both chemotherapy patients and cancer caregivers. This book will give you clear answers to your most urgent chemotherapy questions, such as: · How to keep your hair from falling out · What to eat, and how prevent nausea · How to face tough feelings such as fear of dying Braving Chemo is a valuable resource about what to expect during chemo, how to minimize the side effects and how to live life as normally as possible when life itself is on the line.

Customized Cancer Treatment is the first book for the layperson on chemosensitivity testing. This is a laboratory procedure by which patients and their doctors can discover which drugs are mostly like to work for them and which to avoid. Chemosensitivity testing is very effective at finding the best drugs for each individual. It is a form of personalized treatment. According to Dr. Robert Nagourney, No cancer patient should begin treatment without first reading this book.

This is a story about a young woman with a very common but deadly illness who did a very uncommon thing when faced with that disease. She disagreed with her doctors, rejected their treatment advice, and chose her own path to getting well again. She did this in the face of paralyzing fears of dying and leaving behind a motherless daughter. She did this in the face of the daunting task of researching and choosing a better treatment. She did this in the face of the intense pressures of social conformity telling her to listen to her doctors. What she did was extraordinarily brave and forward-thinking. In effect, she forged a better path through a thicket of fear, complexity, and pressure. She forged this path with the help of her husband, working as a team and exhibiting unyielding togetherness. This book chronicles the journey they took together, back to health.

Chemotherapy and You is a booklet for people who are undergoing chemotherapy for cancer. It covers basic information about chemotherapy, what patients can expect, side effects you may have during chemotherapy, tips for managing side effects, and questions to ask the doctor or nurse. Other related products include the following: Caring for the Caregiver: Support for Cancer Caregivers ISBN; 9780160947520 Children with Cancer: A Guide for Parents ISBN: 9780160947537 Coping with Advanced Cancer: Support for People with Cancer ISBN: 9780160947544 Eating Hints: Before, during, and after Cancer Treatment ISBN: 9780160947551 Life After Cancer Treatment: Facing Forward ISBN: 9780160947568 Pain Control: Support for People with Cancer ISBN: 9780160947575 Radiation Therapy and You: Support for People with Cancer ISBN: 9780160947582 Surgery Choices for Women with DCIS and Breast Cancer ISBN: 9780160947599 Taking Part in Cancer Research Studies ISBN: 9780160947605 Understanding Breast Changes: A Guide for Women ISBN: 9780160947612 Understanding Cervical Changes: A Health Guide for Women ISBN: 9780160947629 When Cancer Returns: Support for People with Cancer ISBN: 9780160947636 When Someone You Love Has Advanced Cancer: Support for Caregivers ISBN: 9780160947643 When Someone You Love Has Completed Cancer Treatment: Facing Forward ISBN: 9780160947650 When Someone You Love Is Being Treated for Cancer: Support for Caregivers ISBN: 9780160947667 When Your Brother or Sister Has Cancer: A Guide for Teens ISBN: 9780160947674 When Your Parent Has Cancer: A Guide for Teens ISBN: 9780160947681

Remember: It’s Your Body and You Do Have Choices Beginning in 2011, journalist and health coach Laura Bond and her mother Gemma visited 60 of the world’s foremost cancer specialists and healers who are getting remarkable results in treating cancer without radiation or chemotherapy. This book shares the most exciting discoveries they made in their travels. You’ll read about everything from hydrogen peroxide therapies and juiced cannabis to high-dose vitamin C, coffee enemas (The Gerson Method), eliminating sugar from the diet, drinking green vegetable juices, and infrared saunas. Quick to point out that every cancer and every body is different, Bond does not offer a one-size-fits-all approach but throw the doors open wide to thinking about your treatment options—and even about cancer itself—in a whole new light. This book points the way toward making informed choices, based on information, not fear. Whether you are exploring treatment options, looking to build your body’s own resources to heal and restore itself, hoping to find ways to supplement conventional care, or all of the above, look no further. This is the book you need.