Anticancer: A New Way of Life

Servan-Schreiber, David

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9781602834750: Anticancer: A New Way of Life

ISBN 10: 160283475X ISBN 13: 9781602834750

Publisher: Blackstone Pub, 2008

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A common-sense blueprint for healthy living.
Chicago Tribune
Fills an important gap in our knowledge of how patients can contribute to their own care by supplementing conventional medical treatment. I recommend this book to anyone interested in preventive medicine and integrated, complementary approaches to patient care.
John Mendelsohn, MD, president, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas
Resonating with cancer support communities . . . and recommended nationwide on internet message boards.
Los Angeles Times
Life affirming . . . filled with practical advice that enables cancer patients to overcome their initial feelings of helplessness and to adopt a proactive attitude of survivorship.
The Seattle Times
Servan-Schreiber s writing offers much more than science. It is full of passion . . . and compassion for his patients dealing with the emotional aspects of serious or terminal illness.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Enormously compelling evidence and arguments for participating in our own health by supporting our deep natural capacity for healing. Everybody should read this book and enact its simple but potentially lifesaving recommendations.
Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, author of Wherever You Go, There You Are
Anticancer s message is optimistic, the advice scientifically sound, and the prose highly readable.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Presents a compelling combination of one doctor s story of his battle with cancer along with his research into how to fight the disease . . . Readable and moving.
Body & Soul Magazine"

"A common-sense blueprint for healthy living."
--Chicago Tribune

"Fills an important gap in our knowledge of how patients can contribute to their own care by supplementing conventional medical treatment. I recommend this book to anyone interested in preventive medicine and integrated, complementary approaches to patient care."
--John Mendelsohn, MD, president, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas

"Resonating with cancer support communities . . . and recommended nationwide on internet message boards."
--Los Angeles Times

"Life affirming . . . filled with practical advice that enables cancer patients to overcome their initial feelings of helplessness and to adopt a proactive attitude of survivorship."
--The Seattle Times

"Servan-Schreiber's writing offers much more than science. It is full of passion . . . and compassion for his patients dealing with the emotional aspects of serious or terminal illness."
--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"Enormously compelling evidence and arguments for participating in our own health by supporting our deep natural capacity for healing. Everybody should read this book and enact its simple but potentially lifesaving recommendations."
--Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, author of Wherever You Go, There You Are

"Anticancer's message is optimistic, the advice scientifically sound, and the prose highly readable."
--Fort Worth Star-Telegram

"Presents a compelling combination of one doctor's story of his battle with cancer along with his research into how to fight the disease . . . Readable and moving."
--Body & Soul Magazine

Synopsis:

All of us have cancer cells in our bodies. But not all of us will develop cancer. This international bestseller examines what we can do every day to lower our chances of ever developing the illness, and also explains what to do to increase the chances of recovery from it. Dr David Servan-Schreiber was first confronted with cancer when he was working as a medical resident in Pittsburgh. Already a recognized pioneer in neuroscience, by his own admission David had all the arrogant and immortal confidence of a thirty-year-old over-achiever. Then he discovered he had cancer of the brain. And his life changed. Servan-Schreiber went on to research alternative medicine and became the founding director of the Centre of Integrative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre. This book is the fruit of his experience in the field of cancer both as a doctor and as a patient. He alternates chapters that tell his personal story and cases he has come across, with chapters that focus on the disease and its mechanisms from a purely scientific and medical angle. He looks in particular at the relation between a body and its cancer, at the immune system, the new blood vessels necessary for cancer growth, and the roles played by environmental toxins, nutrition, emotions, and physical activity in containing cancer.

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