Defeat Cancer: 15 Doctors of Integrative & Naturopathic Medicine Tell You How First Edition. First Printing. edition

ONE-ON-ONE WITH 15 CANCER DOCTORS:

If you traveled the world for appointments with fifteen cancer doctors, you would discover many of the cutting-edge treatments used to heal the body from cancer. You would also spend thousands of dollars on hotels, plane tickets, and medical appointment fees-not to mention the time that it would take to embark on such a journey.

Even if you had the time and money to travel, would the physicians have enough time to answer all of your questions? Would you even know which questions to ask?

In this long-awaited book, health care journalist Connie Strasheim has done all the work for you. She conducted intensive interviews with fifteen highly regarded doctors who specialize in cancer treatment, asking them thoughtful, important questions, and then spent months compiling their information into organized, user-friendly chapters that contain the core principles upon which they base their approach to healing cancer. The practitioners interviewed are medical, osteopathic and naturopathic doctors, trained in a variety of integrative approaches to cancer treatment.

All aspects of treatment are covered, from anti-neoplastic (anti-cancer) remedies and immune system support, to dietary and lifestyle choices that result in the best outcomes for patients. The book also offers unique insights into healing, such as the pros and cons of different treatments and how to intelligently use chemotherapy. It discusses patient and practitioner challenges to healing, factors that affect healing, treatment outcomes and how to effectively combine multiple medical strategies to obtain the best results. Finally, it offers helpful insights to the friends and families of those coping with cancer. Cancer treatment is complex and controversial, and this book puts the treatment information you need in the palm of your hand.

PHYSICIAN INTERVIEWEES:

These are the questions we asked our doctors in order to discover their cancer treatment strategies:

1. What is cancer? What causes it?
2. What is your treatment approach? How effective is it for different types and stages of cancer?
3. What are your treatment outcomes and can you provide statistics on your success for treating late-stage cancers?
4. What are your dietary recommendations for those with cancer?
5. What lifestyle recommendations do you suggest for people with cancer?
6. Describe the role of emotional trauma/emotions in healing from cancer. Do you recommend that your patients do any type of spiritual/psychological therapies as part of their healing process? How integral are these to their healing?
7. Do you recommend detoxification therapies to your patients? If so, which ones?
8. What supportive treatments do you recommend, besides those described in your main protocol? Do you believe that supporting the hormones, for example, should be an important part of treatment?
9. Are there any treatments, either within conventional or natural medicine, which are dangerous and/or ineffective?
10. How can friends and family support their loved ones with cancer?
11. What do you wish that more people with cancer knew when seeking out treatments?
12. How does medical politics influence the availability of effective treatments?
13. What else do you want readers to know about your work as a cancer practitioner?
14. What factors influence healing?
15. What are your final words of wisdom for cancer patients?