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Breast Cancer: 50 Essential Things to Do
A Fully Integrative Approach to Breast Cancer
Your roadmap for facing breast cancer. While recovery and survival rates for breast cancer have improved, the shock and confusion that comes with a diagnosis remains overwhelming, as does choosing a plan of treatment. With so many options out there, each one backed by experts claiming it to be the best, it’s difficult to know the best option for you. This is where an integrated approach comes in, and Greg Anderson, founder of the Cancer Recovery Foundation, is here to help.
A combination of healing tactics. In utilizing a variety of tools for healing, you maximize opportunity for healing. As someone who has been a cancer patient himself, Anderson knows the feeling of being overwhelmed by the possibilities. Because of this, he helps readers form a plan that combines the best of the best: nutrition, exercise, mind/body approaches, and social support along with conventional medical care.
Implement a recovery plan. As a recognized pioneer in the field of integrated cancer care, Anderson offers critical information and advice to readers about the major issues they will face as a patient following a breast cancer diagnosis. Knowing the uncertainty that accompanies the journey, Anderson doesn’t just offer his readers advice, he guides them toward making a concrete, comprehensive recovery plan.
Read Breast Cancer: 50 Essential Things to Do by Greg Anderson and discover:
A guide to health and healing from one of the world’s leading wellness authorities An approach to recovery that calls into question Western medicine’s tendency to overtreat Advice for cultivating physical, emotional, and spiritual healthReaders of books such as Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book, Radical Remission, and Heal Breast Cancer Naturally will find a further source of hope and healing in Breast Cancer: 50 Essential Things to Do.
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276 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 1, 2011
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About the author
Greg Anderson
74 books30 followers“A man on a mission…”
Greg Anderson is the founder of Cancer Recovery Foundation International, a global affiliation of national organizations whose mission is to help all people prevent and survive cancer.
Cancer Recovery Foundation focuses on the human services side of cancer. It does not fund clinical research or medical treatments. The Foundation provides adults with training and support for implementing whole-person cancer prevention and survival strategies. Children with cancer and their families are served through the Children’s Project. The Foundation has established affiliates in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany and France.
Greg Anderson was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer in 1984. He was given 30 days to live. Refusing to accept the hopelessness of this prognosis, he went searching for people who had lived even though their doctors had told them they were “terminal.” His findings from interviews with over 16,000 cancer survivors form the strategies and action points for what has become an international cancer survival movement.
Anderson is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading wellness authorities. He is the author of eight books which have been translated into 29 languages.
Greg Anderson is the founder of Cancer Recovery Foundation International, a global affiliation of national organizations whose mission is to help all people prevent and survive cancer.
Cancer Recovery Foundation focuses on the human services side of cancer. It does not fund clinical research or medical treatments. The Foundation provides adults with training and support for implementing whole-person cancer prevention and survival strategies. Children with cancer and their families are served through the Children’s Project. The Foundation has established affiliates in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany and France.
Greg Anderson was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer in 1984. He was given 30 days to live. Refusing to accept the hopelessness of this prognosis, he went searching for people who had lived even though their doctors had told them they were “terminal.” His findings from interviews with over 16,000 cancer survivors form the strategies and action points for what has become an international cancer survival movement.
Anderson is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading wellness authorities. He is the author of eight books which have been translated into 29 languages.
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August 10, 2018
Integrative cancer care for checklist types.
You know what I mean. Some people just plain FEEL BETTER when they have a list of things to do, because then they can tick things off that list and feel as if they have accomplished something. There's a lot of good background information here, but the heart of the book is the list of 50 things, to which a panicky cancer patient can flip and start to reassert some control over her own healing process. Which is no small thing when a very big disease makes you feel out of control.
Part one of the book is the part you go back and read after you've peeled yourself off the ceiling a bit - it talks about integrative cancer care as a whole and gives the background on the science of care. The only caveat here -- which cost the book a star -- is that its 2011 publication date means it's beyond the 5-year recommended consumer health pull date for most libraries, so if you don't weed it (and demand may mean you keep it), make sure you have adequate up-to-date information on breast cancer available, preferably dated 2013 forward.
[Note to future readers: that's a rolling 5-year marker, so whatever year you're reading this, subtract 5 years from it and that's the oldest your consumer health information should be.]
Part two, the 50 things, is INCREDIBLY sensible, and addresses ways you can be an informed patient who is active in your own care. A lot of it boils down to a) SLOW THE FUCK DOWN and 2) GET YOUR SHIT ORGANIZED, but the delivery is far more gentle, and will reassure those who need their to-do lists broken down into the smallest pieces possible. A LOT of the 50 things, though, are mental strategies involving a change of attitude, which is helpful because surviving cancer is largely a game of the mind: can you get through it without losing hope and driving yourself bananas? The mental toughness is almost as important as caring for your physical self...and, sometimes, moreso. There is also a spiritual component here which, while non-denominational, may irritate readers who do not hold any religious beliefs.
There are, of course, the usual commands to clean up your diet, drink more water, etc., grouped under the "Heal Your Lifestyle" heading. The two appendices go into greater detail on these processes, with Appendix A dedicated to food/nutrition, and Appendix B to the complementary modalities like yoga and reiki you may want to add to your treatment regimen. But the main thrust here is really on getting your inner house in order. A LOT of people are into that, so if you have this book already and it circs well, don't weed it. If you don't have it, don't go back and get it unless a significant portion of your patron population holds a woo-woo vibe. Recommended for larger collections with the aforementioned caveats.
You know what I mean. Some people just plain FEEL BETTER when they have a list of things to do, because then they can tick things off that list and feel as if they have accomplished something. There's a lot of good background information here, but the heart of the book is the list of 50 things, to which a panicky cancer patient can flip and start to reassert some control over her own healing process. Which is no small thing when a very big disease makes you feel out of control.
Part one of the book is the part you go back and read after you've peeled yourself off the ceiling a bit - it talks about integrative cancer care as a whole and gives the background on the science of care. The only caveat here -- which cost the book a star -- is that its 2011 publication date means it's beyond the 5-year recommended consumer health pull date for most libraries, so if you don't weed it (and demand may mean you keep it), make sure you have adequate up-to-date information on breast cancer available, preferably dated 2013 forward.
[Note to future readers: that's a rolling 5-year marker, so whatever year you're reading this, subtract 5 years from it and that's the oldest your consumer health information should be.]
Part two, the 50 things, is INCREDIBLY sensible, and addresses ways you can be an informed patient who is active in your own care. A lot of it boils down to a) SLOW THE FUCK DOWN and 2) GET YOUR SHIT ORGANIZED, but the delivery is far more gentle, and will reassure those who need their to-do lists broken down into the smallest pieces possible. A LOT of the 50 things, though, are mental strategies involving a change of attitude, which is helpful because surviving cancer is largely a game of the mind: can you get through it without losing hope and driving yourself bananas? The mental toughness is almost as important as caring for your physical self...and, sometimes, moreso. There is also a spiritual component here which, while non-denominational, may irritate readers who do not hold any religious beliefs.
There are, of course, the usual commands to clean up your diet, drink more water, etc., grouped under the "Heal Your Lifestyle" heading. The two appendices go into greater detail on these processes, with Appendix A dedicated to food/nutrition, and Appendix B to the complementary modalities like yoga and reiki you may want to add to your treatment regimen. But the main thrust here is really on getting your inner house in order. A LOT of people are into that, so if you have this book already and it circs well, don't weed it. If you don't have it, don't go back and get it unless a significant portion of your patron population holds a woo-woo vibe. Recommended for larger collections with the aforementioned caveats.
January 12, 2014
Very interesting book which confirmed my thoughts on the current state of modern medical treatments for breast cancer (they aren't effective and don't get stated on big pharmaceuticals influence). It also reiterates to me that the best thing you can do when you learn you have cancer is to educate yourself and more importantly stand up for yourself.
October 4, 2018
Highly recommend this book to those dealing with breast cancer. Lots of practical, good information here that you won't hear from your oncologist.
May 25, 2012
I read most of this book while I was undergoing treatment for triple-negative breast cancer. Parts, such as the author's story of how he cured lung cancer through diet after being given a month to live, are inspiring. Other parts, such as his advice to be very careful about chemotherapy, are useful, especially to women who have no lymph node involvement or other metastases. But for some reason, I got tired of it and put it aside. It's definitely worth reading for the discussion of chemo and much of the 50 "essential things."
December 20, 2012
I've been looking for a book on holistic treatment of breast cancer and the aftermath for quite some time. This is a quick read, and very welcome information. Thanks for thinking of the whole person and not just the tumor.
June 23, 2014
A great book for understanding your diagnosis, making treatment options, choosing wellness options and medication and supplements.
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December 17, 2013
Gave me lots of things - well I guess about 50 things - to think about. I knew I needed to get back on my exercise schedule - and this helped motivate me. I thought it was pretty helpful.
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