A cancer diagnosis is always a shock, and studies show that people with a positive, aggressive, “co-doctor” attitude towards their cancer have higher survival rates. It also is true that doctors practicing conventional medicine are trapped in a system that only lets them follow and prescribe the “standard of treatment,” even if they themselves would not do it. For example, a survey of oncologists at McGill University in Toronto showed that 95% would not undergo chemotherapy themselves or for their families if they were diagnosed with cancer, yet chemotherapy is the most common treatment oncologists prescribe.
The cancer survivor must find information about non-conventional treatments on their own, and then discuss them with their health care professional. Many non-conventional treatments complement conventional medicine, reducing the side effects of treatment and boosting the immune system to clean up any cancerous cells that are missed. Chemotherapy and radiation both depress the immune system, yet a supercharged immune system is the best defense against cancer recurring, and often can cure cancers on its own, without additional treatment. Even the American Cancer Society says: “A person with a healthy immune system will not get cancer.”
Sorting through the ebooks available on alternative cancer treatment used to be difficult, costly, time-consuming and confusing until the website www.cancerbookreviews.com posted reviews rating books from one to five stars. Although the site is focused on step-by-step programs to beat your cancer, it also covers some hidden gems, like the 4.5-star rated Cancer Research Online Made Easy by Dr. Glenn Sheiner, and the 5-star rated How To Beat Your Prostate Cancer from the Cures Research Institute. An at-a-glance summary table lists each book’s strengths, weaknesses and recommendation, with a click-through to a full review. The reviews alone have good information about treating cancer, such as the flax oil and cottage cheese diet created by Dr. Johanna Budwig, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize seven times and lived to 103.
The cancerbookreviews.com website recommends which books to buy first and then how to build an effective cancer library. If you think of yourself not as a patient or a victim, but as a survivor, you will need information, advice and a step-by-step plan to beat your cancer. This site is the Mother Lode.