Women Confront Cancer: Making Medical History by Choosing Alternative and Complementary Therapies

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Summary: Non-Victim Strategies for Breast Cancer
Review: "Women Confront Cancer" presents strong, positive women who refuse to become victims of their disease. "Passive patients fare worse" is a Medical Literature classic truth, yet breast cancer patients are treated like robots: their bodies are cut, burned with carcinogenic radiation and poisoned in order to "kill" the cancer. Unfortunately, doctors can't kill disease, only the patient. Alternatives are the future. Disease cannot be cut out of the body, but cancer can be healed. It takes work and strength and dedication. It takes research and experimenting to find out what works. It can be done and without medical "treatments" which will someday be called the dark ages of cancer treatment. These women did it their way. They showed the way to survival. This book empowers all cancer patients, men or women.

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Summary: Finding their way
Review: For anyone considering an alternative or complementary cancer therapy, this book is a guide to the pitfalls and the opportunites, the struggles and triumphs of choosing your own way. An inspiring account of how 21 women, very different from each other, faced their diagnosis of cancer, evaluated the science, used their intuition and made their own choices about treatment and how they would live their lives. This collection of their stories, told in their own words, is set against the backdrop of conventional medicine and the emergence of complementary and alternative cancer medicine in America. The collection is an illuminating read. Every woman can find a bit of herself in this book which is empowering and instructive.