Choices in Healing : Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. On never giving up hope : three stories -- 2. healing and curing : the starting point for informed choice -- 3. The crucial difference : international variations in conventional cancer therapies -- 4. The debate over conventional cancer therapies -- 5. American cultures of conventional cancer therapy -- 6. Choosing conventional physicians, hospitals, and therapies -- 7. The debate over unconventional cancer therapies -- 8. A framework for evaluating unconventional cancer therapies -- 9. Spiritual approaches to cancer -- 10. Psychological approaches to cancer -- 11. What science says about nutrition and cancer : macronutrients -- 12. Can vitamins and minerals help? : the scientific view : micronutrients -- 13. Unconventional nutritional approaches to cancer : an overview -- 14. The Gerson diet : a radical anticancer therapy -- 15. Macrobiotics : a diet and a way of life -- 16. Virginia C. Livingston : integrating diet, nutritional supplements, and immunotherapy -- 17. Keith Block : integrating diet, fitness, and psychological support into an oncology practice -- 18. Physical and energetic approaches : exercise, massage, therapeutic touch, and chiropractic -- 19. Traditional Chinese medicine : a favored adjunctive therapy for American cancer patients -- 20. Unconventional pharmacological therapies : an overview -- 21. Stanislaw Burzynski : antineoplastons on the edge of medical credibility -- 22. Joseph Gold : does hydrazine sulfate prevent weight loss and extend life with cancer? -- 23. Emanuel Rivici : will his unique therapy ever be scientifically assessed? -- 24. Living with cancer -- 25. Controlling pain -- 26. On living and dying -- 27. Making your choices.

Written by one of the country's leading authorities on alternative and complementarycancer treatments, Choices in Healing is designed for the cancer patient or health professional whoseeks a comprehensive overview of the available choices, both in treatments and in living withcancer. Choices in Healing offers valuable information and guidance for the whole life cycle ofcancer -- from the initial shock of diagnosis to decisions about choosing a physician andconventional therapies, selecting complementary therapies, coping with treatment, and the art ofliving fully with the possibility of recurrence. There are detailed explanations and evaluations of awide range of complementary therapy programs, including spiritual and psychological approaches, nutritional therapies, physical therapies, pharmacological therapies, and traditional medicines fromaround the world. There are sections on prayer and other forms of spiritual healing; psychotherapy, support groups, visual imagery and hypnosis; massage, therapeutic touch, yoga, and Qi Gong;macrobiotic diet and other cancer diets; acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicines; and numerousother unconventional therapies used by American cancer patients. With an unusual combination ofcompassion and objectivity, Michael Lerner describes his conclusions following more than a decade ofstudy of unconventional cancer treatments in North America, Europe, India, and Japan. He also drawsextensively on his work with hundreds of cancer patients who have participated in the CommonwealCancer Help Programs, the residential support program depicted by Bill Moyers in his 1993 PBSdocumentary "Healing and the Mind."