My Healing From Breast Cancer

by Barbara Joseph

This work provides a mental and emotional account of a doctor's survival from breast cancer which addresses not only how to deal with aspects of this disease, but also what is required for breast healing. It explores the negatives and positives of types of treatment, and looks into the causes, including some preventable ones, of breast cancer; examines the cultural and political dysfunctions that contribute to the growing incidences of breast cancer, and offers a program for preventing or healing it.

392 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Debbie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This woman's story is remarkable in that she is a 28 year survivor of Stage 3 breast cancer. She published the book in 1996 as a 5 year survivor. An internet search today finds her still practicing medicine in 2019. She tells a remarkable and encouraging story with a forward by Dr. Christiane Northrup and blurbs on the back cover by leading experts in the field, Dr. Susan M. Love, and Dr Bernie Siegel. Given all this, I don't understand why this book was not more widely read.

While juggling the demands of an OB/GYN career and nursing her third baby in four years, she discovered a tennis ball-sized lump in her breast. From there her journey unfolds - through treatment, educating herself on nutrition, alternate complementary treatments, and emotional healing.

Even though this book is 22 years old, I gained new insights and she reinforced so much of what I've read in other sources.