Journeys With The Cancer Conqueror

This modern-day inspirational parable shows how a positive attitude and a hopeful spirit affects cancer and even contributes to its cure. The reader is taken on a step-by-step transformation from despair to hope and left with the uplifting message that this is the moment they can create wellness of body, mind and spirit.

For more than a decade, Greg Anderson's The Cancer Conqueror has been helping cancer patients take control of their disease and their lives. Told as a modern-day parable, the book traces one patient's journey from the fear, futility, and grief felt upon first hearing a cancer diagnosis to the calm, focused, accepting outlook of a Cancer Conqueror. The story encourages a step-by-step transformation from despair to hope, and carries the empowering message that people can choose to be fully alive-even with a cancer diagnosis. In Journeys with the Cancer Conqueror Anderson has expotentially expanded his groundbreaking book to become an even more important companion to cancer patients. Most significantly, he has added an extensive series of interactive exercises that help the reader achieve greater self-knowledge and a heightened sense of personal empowerment-critically important elements of the holistic healing process. The Cancer Conqueror has helped patients and family members through some of the most difficult times in their lives, and Journeys with the Cancer Conqueror will continue to do so for years to come.

Journeys in Cancerland offers two object lessons in patient participation. For a long time, patients barely participated in their own care. Once diagnosed with a disease like cancer, they would enter an all-consuming acute care system that took over their lives until they went into remission or died. That this is no longer the case is due, for the most part, to patients and caregivers like John-Peter Bradford and Lisa Newman who have begun to take charge of their care. Their stories are not merely instructive about cancer -- they are lessons in how to live with life threatening illness and how to face death. John-Peter Bradford is CEO of Bradford Bachinski Limited and a member of the Cancer Care Advisory Committee of the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation. Lisa Newman has over thirty years' experience in the Ontario healthcare system as a clinician, supervisor, and manager. Foreword by Sholom Glouberman, President of the Patients' Association of Canada

The Journey Through Cancer is an essential guide for all cancer patients, their families, and their loved ones. As a board-certified oncologist, with more than ten years of experience serving as physician, guide, mentor, coach, and friend to thousands of cancer patients and their families, Dr. Jeremy Geffen has learned how cancer often challenges the mind, heart, and spirit of patients and their families as deeply --- if not more deeply --- than it challenges the physical body. Yet this simple truth is often overlooked by Western medicine as it aggressively pursues the best ways to diagnose and treat cancer. Too often physicians focus almost exclusively on the physical dimensions of the disease, rather than caring for the whole person who has the disease. Dr. Geffen presents a groundbreaking seven-level program, used at his cancer center in Florida, that addresses every dimension of the person with cancer--physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual: Education and Information, giving patients answers to questions about their disease and their treatment options. Psychosocial Support, focusing on the need for and benefits of a strong support network. The Body as Garden, exploring the vast array of alternative and complementary therapies. Emotional Healing, helping patients and families deal with the often overwhelming emotional challenges of cancer. The Nature of Mind, exploring how patients' thoughts and beliefs profoundly influence their journey. Life Assessment, showing patients how to discover their life's deepest meaning and purpose. The Nature of Spirit, connecting patients to the profoundly healing spiritual aspect of life we all share. In The Journey Through Cancer, Dr. Geffen presents a revolutionary model of healing based on the best treatments available from every culture and paradigm of medicine, one that respects and explores every possible avenue and resource for healing and transformation, blending East and West, body and mind, heart and technology, science and spirit.

There is no escaping the crimes of the past, discovers Kuppuswamy. The price for smoking away his youth has to be paid. And pay he does, in the form of gross hematuria and bladder cancer. While cancer eats away at his insides, Kuppuswamy does not let it kill his spirit to fight. Fortunately, he is not all alone in this battle, as an army of doctors, support staff, family and friends come to his aid in full force. As he wages a war against the dreaded disease, through several bouts of painful surgery and frequent reviews, a few surprises await him. Amid premature celebrations, minor hiccups and major shocks, Kuppuswamy emerges a winner. Minus a bladder, prostrate and several lymph nodes, Kuppuswamy pads up for a new innings. He realizes that life minus a few organs isn?t all that bad. Though he has to depend on external aids, which initially proves to be cumbersome and embarrassing, Kuppuswamy gradually accepts the new reality even as thoughts invade the cancer conqueror.

In the media and medical literature, managing cancer as a chronic disease is fast becoming the focus of care. Patients who manage their cancer have the best chance of staying alive, having a good quality of life, or of being cured. They seek second opinions, research all types of cancer treatments, ask the right questions, protect themselves against errors during treatment, and change their lifestyles. This book provides patients with more than 200 things they need to know and elaborates on more than 200 things they can do. Doing only a few of these things may save your life. This book teaches patients how to increase their odds, how to go about making treatment decisions, how to find what they need on the Internet, why research services are worth their weight in gold, and much more. Managing Cancer: Managing to Stay Alive gives patients the following: information about what to do first; forms to help keep track of medical information; lists of questions to use to evaluate treatment options (traditional, integrative, alternative, and experimental); questions to have answered before deciding on a treatment, when given a new medication, and before having a biopsy procedure; questions to ask conventional doctors, alternative doctors, the oncologist initially, and yourself before beginning a treatment; information on how to help avoid becoming one of the 50,000 Americans who die from medical errors in hospitals or one of the 100,000 patients who die from hospital infections each year; and concise listings of symptoms of medical emergencies such as infection, anemia, blood clotting problems, allergic reactions, and adverse reactions to drugs.