Anticancer

carolinagirl67
carolinagirl67 Member Posts: 153
edited March 2014 in Head and Neck Cancer #1
I bought this book yesterday called Anti Cancer by: David Servan-Screiber. I couldn't put it down. I don't believe everything I read but he does make some good points. I think it is worth getting a copy for yourself. Donna

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  • ratface
    ratface Member Posts: 1,337 Member
    #2
    saw him on GMA
    Saw him recently on Good Morning America. He is a Doctor who contracted brain cancer and beat it once then recurred 8 years later and beat it again. Have not read the book but would say he qualifies as an expert from a treatment as well as a patient point of view.
  • stevenl
    stevenl Member Posts: 587
    #3
    ratface said:

    saw him on GMA
    Saw him recently on Good Morning America. He is a Doctor who contracted brain cancer and beat it once then recurred 8 years later and beat it again. Have not read the book but would say he qualifies as an expert from a treatment as well as a patient point of view.

    anti-c
    I too saw him somewhere on tv. Only problem-I was not paying attention. No idea I was sick at that time.

    Steve
  • Hondo
    Hondo Member Posts: 6,636 Member
    #4
    Cancer book
    I will put it on my list to get and read.

    Thanks Donna
  • Skiffin16
    Skiffin16 Member Posts: 8,305 Member
    #5
    Hondo said:

    Cancer book
    I will put it on my list to get and read.

    Thanks Donna

    Eating Well Through Cancer
    Here's another if you haven't read it before....;

    Eating Well Through Cancer: Easy Recipes & Recommendations During & After Treatment

    by Holly Clegg, Gerald Miletello, David Humphreys

    John
  • carolinagirl67
    carolinagirl67 Member Posts: 153
    #6
    Skiffin16 said:

    Eating Well Through Cancer
    Here's another if you haven't read it before....;

    Eating Well Through Cancer: Easy Recipes & Recommendations During & After Treatment

    by Holly Clegg, Gerald Miletello, David Humphreys

    John

    Eating Well
    Hi John,

    I will get it too. I am already reading two books but another won't hurt. I am a strict vegitarian and diet has always been very important to me. I truly believe we can help our bodies heal and work they way they are suppose to. I am working on my husband (Hehe) Good luck to you all. Donna
  • frank10g
    frank10g Member Posts: 37
    #7
    carolinagirl67 said:

    Eating Well
    Hi John,

    I will get it too. I am already reading two books but another won't hurt. I am a strict vegitarian and diet has always been very important to me. I truly believe we can help our bodies heal and work they way they are suppose to. I am working on my husband (Hehe) Good luck to you all. Donna

    anti cancer book
    I have just finished reading a book called The Miracle of Enzyme by Hiromi Shinya, MD. He is a gastroenterologist who developed kolonoscope, practiced medicine for over 40 years and examined and recorded over 300,000 patients health history. He has some interesting points about drinking japanese green tea and dairy products that actually promote cancer. If anybody has read this book, I would like to hear your opinion on it. I personally like it very much. Frank
  • Skiffin16
    Skiffin16 Member Posts: 8,305 Member
    #8
    carolinagirl67 said:

    Eating Well
    Hi John,

    I will get it too. I am already reading two books but another won't hurt. I am a strict vegitarian and diet has always been very important to me. I truly believe we can help our bodies heal and work they way they are suppose to. I am working on my husband (Hehe) Good luck to you all. Donna

    Enjoy
    I'm sure you'll enjoy the book Donna... let me know.
  • HehnBuhl
    HehnBuhl Member Posts: 6
    #9
    One of the BEST Explanations on Cancer

    I read this book,  ANTICANCER, shortly after it came out.   I had just been diagnosed with a tumor in the middle of my spinal cord, Intramedullary Ependymoma,  so I was VERY motivated.   By then it was 8 months into my diagnosis and I had read a LOT about cancer and brain/spinal tumors in particular.

    I would HIGHLY recommend this book to ANYONE regarding cancer.   He combines the knowledge and wisdom of a Surgeon, with the empathy and layman's approach of a patient, since he was BOTH.  

    This is MANY books is one.   What causes cancer.  How do diet, stress, and other factors affect it.  A LIST of foods to eat which fight cancer.  Relating to treatment as a patient,  with a surgeons background and knowledge.   Superb!  Written so everyone can understand it.  And, strinkingly engrossing in the story he tells.

    Buy it.  Read it.  Keep it!

     BB

  • Ron Silver
    Ron Silver Member Posts: 94
    #10
    HehnBuhl said:

    One of the BEST Explanations on Cancer

    I read this book,  ANTICANCER, shortly after it came out.   I had just been diagnosed with a tumor in the middle of my spinal cord, Intramedullary Ependymoma,  so I was VERY motivated.   By then it was 8 months into my diagnosis and I had read a LOT about cancer and brain/spinal tumors in particular.

    I would HIGHLY recommend this book to ANYONE regarding cancer.   He combines the knowledge and wisdom of a Surgeon, with the empathy and layman's approach of a patient, since he was BOTH.  

    This is MANY books is one.   What causes cancer.  How do diet, stress, and other factors affect it.  A LIST of foods to eat which fight cancer.  Relating to treatment as a patient,  with a surgeons background and knowledge.   Superb!  Written so everyone can understand it.  And, strinkingly engrossing in the story he tells.

    Buy it.  Read it.  Keep it!

     BB

    He died of brain cancer in

    He died of brain cancer in 2011.

  • HehnBuhl
    HehnBuhl Member Posts: 6
    #11
    Ron Silver said:

    He died of brain cancer in

    He died of brain cancer in 2011.

    after 20 years of fighting cancer

    Yes David Servan-Screiber died in 2011, but this was 20 years after he was first diagnosed and 14 years after he was diagnosed the SECOND Time.   The context is important.   He was a co-founder of Doctors without Borders in the USA.   He did a lot with his life, and contributed much.

     

  • Ron Silver
    Ron Silver Member Posts: 94
    #12
    HehnBuhl said:

    after 20 years of fighting cancer

    Yes David Servan-Screiber died in 2011, but this was 20 years after he was first diagnosed and 14 years after he was diagnosed the SECOND Time.   The context is important.   He was a co-founder of Doctors without Borders in the USA.   He did a lot with his life, and contributed much.

     

    Some would disagree.

    Some would disagree.  

     Unfortunately, in the process, he also promoted the idea that diet could protect you from almost all cancers, that cell phones cause brain cancer, and that a number of other dubious health modalities could produces a “terrain” that was hostile to cancer, even though evidence supporting such claims was equivocal at best....What this all means is that Servan-Schreiber, for all his scientific prowess, nonetheless ended up behaving like Suzanne Sommers, Lorraine Day, Hollie Quinn, and any number of other cancer patients who were successfully treated with conventional scientific medical therapy and also chose pseudoscience, after which they attributed their good outcome more to the pseudoscience than to the real medicine. Fortunately for him, he did very well and lived a lot longer than the average brain tumor patient. Unfortunately, during that time he promoted a profoundly misleading view of cancer therapy.

    http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/08/02/rip-david-servan-schreiber/

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