Women Confront Cancer: Twenty-One Leaders Making Medical History by Choosing Alternative and Complementary Therapies

by Margaret J. Wooddell, Margaret Wooddell, David J. Hess

Book Overview

Each year hundreds of thousands of women are diagnosed with cancer, and more and more frequently, women are turning to alternative treatments to take control of their illnesses and their lives. Information, however, has been scarce for women navigating through conventional and unconventional medicine. Research funding continues to support traditional cancer therapies. Women Confront Cancer declares the need for new, less toxic therapies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814735878
• ISBN13: 9780814735879
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Who FreakIN Rocks?

This books got Many things going for it.I love it as a whole.It tells the personal story of many women and their relationships with their doctors both cancerous and benign!It tells about nutritional strategies for fighting the disease,and the wonderful and sometimes horrible relationships a woman can have with horrible doctors etc. I reccomend this on the comfort value alone as a resource tool which helped me invaluabley during a time of need.Love to you,Much love,and pleasE heal yourselves as I did with this book during my cheMotherapy.

I enJoy..

I enjoy this Book..It helped me (Freak rock!..Goes good with spiritual bathinG..)so much during my chemotherapy and shows many nutritional information from patients personal experiences..and the non-concern and sexism and hostility.. towards good doctors and others who provide generous treatment options when one wants to feel at one and at peace and other treatment options have failed also, at times, is a shame to be fought against. Love to this book, and to it's authors, women will feel more togetherness and less frightful and powerless when dealing with feelings of isolatedness, for many women share their own stories of diets and modern medicine and the betrayal that they alleviated through alternative therapies, being that their doctors and caregivers were unkind.

Non-Victim Strategies for Breast Cancer

"Women Confront Cancer" presents strong, positive women who refuse to become victims of their disease. "Passive patients fare worse" is a Medical Literature classic truth, yet breast cancer patients are treated like robots: their bodies are cut, burned with carcinogenic radiation and poisoned in order to "kill" the cancer. Unfortunately, doctors can't kill disease, only the patient. Alternatives are the future. Disease cannot be cut out of the body, but cancer can be healed. It takes work and strength and dedication. It takes research and experimenting to find out what works. It can be done and without medical "treatments" which will someday be called the dark ages of cancer treatment. These women did it their way. They showed the way to survival. This book empowers all cancer patients, men or women.

Finding their way

For anyone considering an alternative or complementary cancer therapy, this book is a guide to the pitfalls and the opportunites, the struggles and triumphs of choosing your own way. An inspiring account of how 21 women, very different from each other, faced their diagnosis of cancer, evaluated the science, used their intuition and made their own choices about treatment and how they would live their lives. This collection of their stories, told in their own words, is set against the backdrop of conventional medicine and the emergence of complementary and alternative cancer medicine in America. The collection is an illuminating read. Every woman can find a bit of herself in this book which is empowering and instructive.