Cancer Recovery Guide: 15 Alternative and Complementary Strategies for Restoring Health

by Jonathan Chamberlain

Book Overview

In Europe and in the United States, there is a forty to fifty percent chance of illness from cancer at some time in one's life. So, what do you do if you are diagnosed with the disease? The harshness of orthodox treatments (surgery, radiation and chemotherapy) is well known. Such treatments are widespread, but the results are unimpressive. Faced with those options, informed patients increasingly seek alternative and complementary strategies to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1905570147
• ISBN13: 9781905570140
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Clairview Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Truly a useful A to Z Handbook

A currently common definition of a cancer survivorship states that it extends from the discovery of cancer to the balance of life. Chamberlain extends the definition to include those who don't (yet?) have cancer. He follows with a thoroughly researched and readable discussion of cancer, conventional, alternative, and complementary therapies with a well annotated reference to resources and a bibliography for further discovery.The author works from the premise that an informed patient has a better prognosis but also cautions that only an informed patient is properly equipped to understand options and participate meaningfully in decisions regarding treatment.FIGHTING CANCER provides survivors and potential survivors with the means to become informed.