Breast Cancer: 50 Essential Things to Do by Greg Anderson, Erica A. Harvey and Christine Northrup MD

"The author and founder of Cancer Recovery International, a global affiliation of national charities, is also a lung cancer survivor who 27 years ago was told he had 30 days to live. Not only did Anderson survive but his organization went on to study cancer in depth, between 1986 and 2008 interviewing and surveying 16,000 cancer survivors. His holistic approach to cancer recovery is based on six essential strategies: medical treatment, nutrition, attitude, support, exercise, and spirituality. Anderson contends that while conventional treatment should be embraced, women can take other steps that are at least as important. His goal is to help breast cancer victims develop and implement an individual recovery plan, becoming active participants not just in treating illness but also in creating health. Readers may find some of Anderson's advice disturbing, i.e., his recommendation to forgo annual mammograms unless a lump is found and opt instead for yearly clinical exams and regular self-exams. Other observations are eye-opening and potentially lifesaving; He hails the preventive and curative effects of Vitamin D supplements (noting that its power has been largely ignored by the government and health-care industry) as well as the breast health benefits of low-dose aspirin. This is an important and hopeful vision of breast cancer that views treating the tumor as only one element in a comprehensive action plan to balance and heal body, mind, and spirit." -Publisher's Weekly(Oct. 2011)

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This book SAVED MY LIFE. I needed to feel empowered---doctors were making me crazy! I found this book, and suddenly feel like I have some control. There's so much I can do---now I know what to do and the questions I need to ask my doctors. But I am in control!!!! Not my doctors!!! Read this and buy it for all your girl friends, if they have breast cancer or not. It's a must for all women---recommended by Dr. Northrup, and Mr. Anderson is a 27-year lung cancer survivor. Easy read without lot's of "dr. talk." Bless Greg Anderson for writing this life saving book.