The Cancer Solution: Taking Charge of Your Life with Cancer - Softcover

Westman, Jack C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1480813087 ISBN 13: 9781480813083

Publisher: ArchwayPublishing, 2015

Synopsis

The Cancer Solution: Taking Charge of your Life with Cancer by Jack C. Westman, M.D., shows how much of the failure of the War on Cancer─and more importantly, much of the potential for finally winning it─has to do with the definition of cancer. 

This book is a wake-up call and a call to action for cancer patients, their loved ones and the general public. Conventional cancer care needs to be vastly improved according to the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the National Cancer Institute. Patients know it firsthand. They are obliged to accept chances for 5-year survival with likely debilitation rather than complete remissions (cures). Everyone is paying the price of excessive cancer care costs in their health care insurance.
 
The sun rises and the sun sets. It seems like the sun rotates around the Earth. Cancer cells rise and are killed by surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. It seems like cancer is a disease. But the sun does not rotate around the Earth, and cancer is not a disease. The many kinds of cancer cells are the products of the disease neoplasia that can emerge from normal cells in our bodies' organs and tissues.
 
OLD MODEL: Treatment is determined by a tumor's location in the body without regard for the molecular characteristics of the patient or the tumor and for the environment of the tumor.
 
NEW MODEL: Research will focus on how cancer cells evade the natural defenses in the body's immune system that prevent and stop the formation of cancer cells through the process of neoplasia. This kind of research is finally beginning to lead to the successful treatment of some forms of cancer and should be given the highest priority.
 
A usable handbook for cancer for both patients and health professionals, The Cancer Solution empowers patients to take control of their life with cancer and advocate for improving cancer research and treatment.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Jack Westman is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He is president of Wisconsin Cares, Inc, a non-profit advocacy organization for families and has been president of three professional organizations. He has written over 150 professional publications and twelve books.

Review

"This book should be read as a requirement for anyone diagnosed with cancer. It will serve as a tremendous practical guide for cancer patients and their families."     - Thomas N. Seyfried, Professor of Biology at Boston College and author of Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: On the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancer

"Dr. Westman's book is amazing, creative, innovative, different, stimulating, and outstanding."     - Bharat B. Aggarwal, Professor of Cancer Research, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

"A "must read" for every adult as cancer remains our greatest enemy. The author, a seasoned physician with much professional and family experience dealing with this insidious and frequently deadly disease, really lays out the facts, the unsuccessful attempts at developing cures, and what he sees as rational approaches for managing this disease in the future. If you have experience with cancer, via a family member or friend, once you start reading this book, it will be hard to put down."
     - Peter L. Pedersen, Professor of Biological Chemistry & Oncology, Johns Hopkins University

"Dr. Westman's personal experience led him to extensively research cancer care. Strengthening the body's immune system to prevent and control cancer has shown very promising results including stunning recoveries, but it is largely ignored by the mainstream cancer care. If you have cancer, this book has practical ideas for improving your health today. If you want to win the war on cancer, it will motivate you to advocate for more funding for this promising line of research."
     - Stephen L. Swanson, Past Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Cancer Society

Edition details

• Publisher: ArchwayPublishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1480813087
• ISBN 13: 9781480813083
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 310