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 - Gave to a friendI sent this book to a friend of mine who has ovarian cancer. She has had bad luck with chemo and all the other mainstream pharmaceuticals that doctors have been prescribing. She said the book was very interesting and she was going to try some of the stuff in the book. Unfortunately she does not have the money to allow her to own a computer or internet access, so I try to help her out when I can. I chose this book for her because I actually read all of the reviews first before purchasing. Rating: - This book could save your LifeI can truly recommend this book to anyone, not just people who have cancer. Not only is it a very interesting read but his book is a real eye opener into the world of traditional and alternative cancer treatments. We no longer have to accept western medicine's limitations and toxic cancer treatments that do more harm than good but we can take our health into our own hands starting with the information in this book. After reading the book and consequently researching further some of the information contained within it I stopped chemotherapy and went on to one of the non-toxic alternatives outlined in the book and so far am cancer free. I am so convinced that the information in this book can save many lives I regularly buy copies to give out to people I know with cancer because for them it may mean the difference between life an death. Rating: - If nothing else, you learn a heck of a lot about cancerMost people who read this book either have cancer or know someone with it. If they're reading this book they must already have some idea that the conventional treatments (slash, burn and poison) have limited success and significant risk of doing more harm than good. Ms. Pierce is especially good at explaining how statistics are skewed to make products look good when they are backed by "Big Pharma". Patients are apparently told to take a toxic chemical because of a good "tumor response rate", when the truth is that you often cannot kill all the cancer cells before you kill too many normal cells. Then the ones that survive live to another day and because they are a special breed with resistance to the chemo, they multiply and come back stronger than ever. I have seen this myself in a friend who went through several chemo treatments and then died. I also know a few people who were successfully cured of cancer by chemotherapy, however they were all young people suffering from either Hodgkins or testicular cancer (like Lance Armstrong). These cancers are likely curable because they affect mostly the young and the young are better able to live through the poisoning effect. I have often thought that there must be less dangerous cures for older, less vigorous people, although slower. Well, here they are in this book. Contrary to what some may think, Ms. Pierce doesn't completely reject the conventional treatments, as they might be useful in situations where the slow method can't work because of the fast progression of the disease. However she gives useful information and questions to ask the doctor so that a patient may determine if this is necessary and also may determine if they are being put through misery for nothing because the chemo may not really have much chance of helping. It is useful to know that rejecting a horrible treatment is more valid than one might be led to believe when talking to physicians may be more interested in protecting their behinds from liability than quality of life. They may tell you that something is better than nothing and that something needs to be backed by Big Pharma. The alternative treatments discussed are certainly not "snake oil". Every treatment she chose to cover is based on research which identifies differences between cancer cells and normal cells. The products exploit this difference to make cancer cells self-destruct. I immediately identified some of the research as corroborating with articles I have read over the years in the science sections of mainstream newspapers, such as the Wall Street Journal. Will they cure you? She always says that there are no claims that any of the treatments will cure everybody. What they do claim is that the cure rates are better than those of conventional chemotherapies, once you account for the misleading nature of chemotherapy "cure" rates. The alternative treatments claim that when you're cured you are actually cancer free, whereas the chemotherapy cure rates count anyone who is still alive five years after diagnosis, even if they still have cancer and are about to die five years and two days after diagnosis. Why is this convincing? Well, if you believe that big business will skew statistics in order to recover a big development investment and make profits, then you have to think about this. It's true that nobody is interested in spending hundreds of millions on trials of a substance which is so readily available that they can't sell it exclusively. Until medical care is provided on a non-profit basis I don't believe we will seek out effective, inexpensive treatments which can be self-administered instead of controlled by expensive physicians. I also found this book to be a very easy read, despite the technical nature of her discussions. She is clear and often offers analogies which get at the meat of the concept. I give it an A+! Rating: - A Must ReadQuite possible the best alternative/complementary cancer book ever written. It discusses in sufficient detail easily obtainable and effective over the counter treatments such as Essiac, Flaxseed Oil and Cottage Cheese, Cesium High Ph Therapy, and numerous others. Yet it does not cause distraction by discussing ineffective treatments. The information on Protocel alone was well worth the price of the book. The importance of nutrition and maintaining a proper Ph balance in the body were also discussed. I was disappointed that oral Hydrogen Peroxide Therapy and AHCC were not mentioned in the book as these can be quite beneficial complementary treatments. It gives example after example of people who have beaten terminal cancer for ten years or more using the alternative treatments mentioned. The cancer was not simply in remission, it was completely gone. In most cases the cancer survivors had been terminal and had no hope of success with conventional therapy. It also tells you exactly what regimens people combined such as using Coral Calcium to help beat their cancer. The book is extremely well written and gives many references. It tells you how to obtain the various treatments and where to obtain follow up information. The book discusses theories of what triggers cancer and how cancer cells behave such as cancer being anaerobic and resembling trophoblast cells. I think this book has considerable value in developing a strategy to reduce the risk of developing cancer as well as overcoming it. Rating:  - Was not what I expectedI bought this book brand new from Amazon and was a tad disappointed. I thought I was going to get a very interesting, innovative, description of what causes cancer, and the answer was too pat - "modern living." Anyone could have told me that and I wouldn't have had to pay them. I also thought there might be info on over the counter supplements and how to prevent cancer. The big chapter on how root canals and fillings are giving people cancer was interesting, but I didn't think it deserved a whole chapter, still, I'm sure people who are planning to get their silver fillings replaced should probably follow the hints in it. All the detailed info on all the fad alternative therapies did not impress me enough to read them - yet. Those are things that rich people do who can pay cash. Unfortunately, I'm afraid this will be one that I give to the library or sell at a garage sale. It just wasn't what I was expecting, but nice effort. In association with Amazon.com | |