Cancer Recovery Guide: 15 Alternative and Complementary Strategies for Restoring Health

by Jonathan Chamberlain

In Europe and in the United States, there is a forty to fifty percent chance of illness from cancer at some time in one’s life. So, what do you do if you are diagnosed with the disease? The harshness of orthodox treatments (surgery, radiation and chemotherapy) is well known. Such treatments are widespread, but the results are unimpressive. Faced with those options, informed patients increasingly seek alternative and complementary strategies to control and treat cancer. This book provides an overview of these options. Jonathan Chamberlain saw his wife suffer and eventually die―both from her cancer and from the direct effects of the conventional treatments she underwent. His experience led to his search for other methods to overcome cancer. What he discovered stunned him. There are alternative cures available―dozens of them―many that offer excellent chances for recovery. In Cancer Recovery Guide, Chamberlain presents fifteen direct and practical strategies for regaining one’s health. The strategies are grouped into three families―those that relate to the mind and emotions (Did you know that stress causes cancers to become more aggressive?); those that address health of the whole body (Cancer cannot survive in a tissue environment that is truly healthy.); and those that focus on attacking cancerous tumors directly. The personal stories cited throughout Cancer Recovery Guide testify to the possible therapeutic value of each strategy presented.

176 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1998

About the author

I am a writer who has been hijacked by life. When my daughter, Stevie, exploded into my life with all the problems she had to cope with I ended up founding two charities for children with developmental disabilities (and wrote a memoir of this time in my book: Wordjazz for Stevie) - then when my wife was diagnosed with cancer I had a new battle on my hands - and this led to a series of cancer books starting with Fighting Cancer: A Survival Guide (1996) to the latest book The Cancer Survivor's Bible (2012) - see my website www.fightingcancer.com and cancer blog www.cancerfighter.wordpress.com. I am now seeking to get back to my writing career and in recent years have published the rather controversial novel, The Alphabet of Vietnam, and my comic take on the London 2012 Olympics (Dreams of Gold) - I have also started a blog In Praise of Older Books www.2ndhandbooklover.wordpress.com

Reviews

[Lyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

The descriptions of what cancer is, how it forms and why, are really interesting.
The possible treatments are only briefly outlined and some of them seem quite extreme for the average person! However, website addresses are provided so one can explore further.
I finished the book with a certain sense of optimism that we are not just hapless victims of disease processes and that we can take some control, even over the dreaded cancer. Also, I felt encouraged to take positive proactive health steps now.