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- 30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery and Inner Healing–Volume 1
By Julie Lusk
Publisher: Wholesome Resources
Date Published: 2015
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30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery and Inner Healing–Volume 1 includes scripts for relaxation, imagery, visualization and more. Scripts include Achieve deep, positive relaxation; Benefit from stress relief; Healing guided imagery; Awaken intuition; and Increase self growth and understanding.
- 30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery and Inner Healing–Volume 2
By Julie Lusk
Publisher: Wholesome Resources
Date Published: 1993
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30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery and Inner Healing–Volume 2 includes scripts for reliable ways to relax, get stress relief and boost your energy
- After Cancer Care
By Gerald Lemole, MD; Pallav Mehta, MD; and Dwight McKee, MD
Publisher: Rodale Books
Date Published: August 25, 2015
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According to Drs. Lemole, Mehta, and McKee, your choices in diet, exercise, and even relationships can help determine your propensity for relapse. With more than three decades of post-cancer-care experience, the doctors create practical takeaways based on science so that readers will drastically improve their quality of life to enjoy many years of cancer-free serenity.
- Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient
By Norman Cousins
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Date Published: 2005
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This book is described as "the first book by a patient that spoke to our current interest in taking charge of our own health," starting the revolution in patients working with their doctors and using humor to boost their bodies' capacity for healing.
- Anticancer Living: Transform Your Life and Health with the Mix of Six
By Lorenzo Cohen and Alison Jefferies
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Date Published: 2018
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Introducing the concept of the “Mix of Six,” Cohen and Jefferies make an informed case that building social and emotional support; managing stress; improving sleep, exercise, and diet; and minimizing exposure to environmental toxins work together to promote an optimal environment for health and well-being.
- Beating Cancer with Nutrition (Fourth Edition)
By Patrick Quillin, PhD, with Noreen Quillin
Publisher: Nutrition Times Press, Inc.
Date Published: 2005
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This book provides an approach for using an aggressive nutrition plan of food and supplements to 1) reverse or avoid the common malnutrition that kills 42 percent of cancer patients; 2) make chemo and radiation more of a selective toxicant, thus protecting patients' cells while making the cancer cells more vulnerable to medical elimination; 3) slow cancer by limiting the amount of sugar available in the blood and gut for the glucose-dependent cancer cells; 4) stimulate the immune system, which is in charge of killing unwanted cells in the body, including cancer; and 5) using foods and nutrition supplements as "biological response modifiers" to upregulate the body's built-in mechanism for eliminating cancer cells, such as apoptosis (programmed cell death). The beginning of the Executive Summary is available through the Look Inside feature.
Commentary:
Laura Pole: Although this book is dated 2005, many have found it useful, and some integrative physicians still recommend it to their patients.
- Beyond the Magic Bullet: The Anti-Cancer Cocktail
By Raymond Chang, MD
Publisher: Square One Publishers
Date Published: 2012
Conventional medicine’s core strategy has been re-examined, and a new, potentially more effective approach has emerged―one that combines the best of Eastern wisdom with Western science. This book takes a penetrating look at this bold new way of treating cancer.
- Brave New Medicine
By Dr. Cynthia Li
Publisher: Reveal Press
Date Published: 2019-09-1
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Brave New Medicine details the disabling autoimmune illness that forces a young doctor to question her medical training, embrace the principles of integrative and functional medicine, and unlock her body’s innate potential to heal. In this revelatory memoir, Li blends the insight of a scientist with the humility and candor of a patient, drawing upon cutting-edge science, ancient healing arts, and the power of intuition to offer a fresh, new perspective for doctors and patients alike.
- Cancer as a Turning Point
By Lawrence LeShan, PhD
Publisher: Penguin Group
Date Published: 1994
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In this book psychiatrist Lawrence LeShan shows how psychological and lifestyle changes, coupled with medical treatment, can mobilize a compromised immune system for healing.
- Caregiving: A Step-By-Step Resource for Caring for the Person with Cancer at Home
By Peter S. Houts, PhD, and Julia A. Bucher, RN, PhD
Publisher: American Cancer Society
Date Published: 2000
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Written for caregivers, this updated and revised version of Home Care Guide for Cancer explains each major kind of cancer treatment, obstacles to recovery, when it is time to call in professional help, plentiful examples of how individuals can help their loved ones, and how to adjust your plan of action as needed.
- Choices In Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer
By Michael Lerner
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: 1994
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This book is written for you—someone with cancer who wants to understand the many choices available to you in both conventional medicine and alternative therapies. It is also for your family members, friends, and healthcare professionals, but primarily it is for you. It is a book about how to find your way through the unfamiliar and often frightening territory that you face when you are diagnosed with cancer.
- Coping with Cancer: A Journey to a New Life
By Lee Majewski
Date Published: December 19, 2018
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Coping with Cancer: A Journey to a New Life describes how yoga therapy layers yoga wisdom, philosophies and principles with traditional conventional western medicine for an empowering, complete and holistic healing approach to traveling the entire cancer journey.
- Disease Prevention and Treatment
By Blake Gossard, editor
Publisher: Life Extensions
Date Published: 2018-12-1
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This 6th edition of this book summarizes the latest science and mainstream medicine on staying healthy. Disease Prevention and Treatment is packed with the latest evidence-based protocols addressing 131 different health concerns including cancer.
- Doctored Results: The Suppression of Laetrile at Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
By Ralph W. Moss, PhD
Publisher: Moss Reports
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Ralph Moss, PhD, former assistant director of Public Affairs at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, unveils a cover-up of positive tests with America's most controversial anticancer agent, laetrile.
- Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book
By Dr. Susan Love
Publisher: De Capo Press. 2015
Date Published: 2015
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Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book uses the warm, supportive, and candid tone that has brought confidence to millions of women to help each reader plan her own path after a breast cancer diagnosis.The sixth edition explains advances in targeted treatments, hormonal therapies, chemotherapy, and immunologic approaches as well as new forms of surgery and radiation.
- Fighting Cancer
By Martin L. Rossman, MD
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Dr. Martin L. Rossman shows cancer patients how to use imagery in specific ways that can help them in their fight against cancer. The Fighting Cancer from Within book and 5 CD set were specifically designed to help cancer patients work from within to support their own healing, and are compatible with any other form of treatment.
- Fighting Cancer from Within
By Martin L. Rossman, MD
Publisher: The Healing Mind
Date Published: 2003
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- Getting Well Again
By O. Carl Simonton, MD, James Creighton, PhD, and Stephanie Matthews Simonton
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1992
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In this book the Simontons profile the typical "cancer personality": how an individual’s reactions to stress and other emotional factors can contribute to the onset and progress of cancer—and how positive expectations, self-awareness, and self-care can contribute to survival.
- Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit
By Norman Cousins
Publisher: Penguin Books USA
Date Published: 1990
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This book is described as "an eloquent plea for two needed emphases: more humane doctor-patient relations, and greater patient involvement in the struggle with disease.”
- Healing outside the Margins: The Survivor's Guide to Integrative Cancer Care
By Carole O'Toole and Carolyn B. Hendricks
Publisher: Lifeline Press
Date Published: 2002
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This book provides information on complementary therapies, including acupuncture, massage, homeopathy and meditative practices, and discusses how to integrate these therapies with conventional cancer treatments.
- Herbal Medicine, 2nd Edition: Biomolecular and Clinical Aspects
By Editors: Iris F. F. Benzie and Sissi Wachtel-Galor
Publisher: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis
Date Published: 2011
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Drawing from the work of leading international researchers in different fields, this book contains an in-depth scientific examination of effects of individual herbs, as well as their use in the treatment of important diseases such as cancer. This volume focuses on presenting current scientific evidence of biomolecular effects of selected herbs and their relation to clinical outcome and promotion of human health. This book also addresses the ethical challenges of using herbal medicine and its integration into modern, evidence-based medicine.
- Herbs Against Cancer: History and Controversy
By Ralph W. Moss
Publisher: Moss Reports
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In this e-book, Dr. Ralph W. Moss explores the history and clinical use of herbs in cancer treatment.
- I Am with You: Love Letters to Cancer Patients
By Nancy Novack and Barbara K. Richardson (editors)
Publisher: Nancy's List Books
Date Published: 2015
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Described as "a powerful book for the newly-diagnosed patient, for those who are going through treatment or have entered remission, for loved ones, and for everyone else in the world," this anthology of 42 stories offers hope and healing to sustain cancer patients through those first frightening nights after they hear their diagnosis and every night thereafter.
- Imagery in Healing: Shamanism and Modern Medicine
By Jeanne Achterberg
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Date Published: 2002
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This book describes how the systematic use of mental imagery can have a positive influence on the course of disease and can help patients to cope with pain.
- Integrative Oncology, 2nd Edition
By Donald I. Abrams, MD, and Andrew T. Weil, MD
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2014
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This book provides complementary interventions to conventional cancer care, Including the hot topics of cannabinoids, antioxidents, energy medicine. and nutrition. New chapters have been added to this edition.
- Life over Cancer: The Block Center Program for Integrative Cancer Treatment
By Keith I. Block, MD
Publisher: Bantam Dell
Date Published: 2009
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Dr. Keith Block describes the Block program for fighting cancer to people who are at different places along the cancer continuum. Dr. Block’s evidence-based program is explained in easy-to-understand language that patients can implement both by themselves as well as with the assistance of their healthcare provider. Dr. Block includes in-depth descriptions of lifestyle practices as well as complementary therapies that are designed to enhance conventional cancer treatment, minimize side effects, and possibly prevent recurrence.
- Minding the Body, Mending the Mind
By Joan Borysenko, PhD
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 2007
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This book provides time-tested tips on how to take control of physical and emotional well-being, drawing from success with thousands of patients with conditions ranging from allergies to cancer. Tips provide guidance on how to elicit the mind's powerful relaxation response to boost the immune system, cope with chronic pain, and alleviate symptoms of a host of stress-related illnesses.
- N of 1
By Glenn Sabin with Dawn Lemanne, MD, MPH
Publisher: FON Therapeutics, Inc.
Date Published: 2016
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In N of 1, author Glenn Sabin takes readers along his journey with 'incurable' cancer, where he discovers 1) No two cancers are exactly alike. Our bodies, minds and diseases are unique, and need to be treated as such. 2) Knowledge and empowerment are your best allies against a life-limiting diagnosis. 3) Lifestyle changes are a powerful way to help prevent, manage and reduce the recurrence of disease--and to improve your quality of life. 4) A strong support system and a clear mind may significantly improve your health.
- Naturopathic Oncology, 3rd Edition
By Neil McKinney, BSc, ND
Publisher: Liaison Press
Date Published: 2016
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Informed by 30 years of practice and teaching naturopathic and traditional Chinese medicine, this guide to clinical success with cancer adds new therapies, new chapters, refinements of protocols, expanded references.
- Questioning Chemotherapy
By Ralph W. Moss
Publisher: Moss Reports
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In this e-book, Dr. Ralph W. Moss explores the effective and harmful uses of chemotherapy. Side effects are also covered.
- Radical Hope: Ten Healing Factors from Exceptional Survivors of Cancer and Other Diseases
By Kelly A. Turner
Publisher: Hay House Inc.
Date Published: 2020
In this book, Kelly Turner compiles real-life stories from survivors of cancer and other diseases who have used the 10 key Radical Remission healing factors. With authenticity and a sense of hope, these stories shine the spotlight on the pure strength of the human spirit and offer steadfast support and guidance for making the unique and individual decisions that lead to a powerful journey of healing.
- Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds
By Kelly A. Turner
Date Published: 2014
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Dr. Turner has studied episodes of radical (or unexpected) remission—when people recover against all odds without the help of conventional medicine, or after conventional medicine has failed. Her evidence presents nine common themes that she believes may help even terminal patients turn their lives around.
- Rituals of Healing
By Jeanne Achterberg and Barbara Dossey
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 1994
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This book is described as "a practical guide to using the powers of the mind and the imagination to form rituals that can help the body restore and maintain health."
- Textbook of Naturopathic Oncology
By Gurdev Parmar and Tina Kaczor
Publisher: Medicatrix Holdings, Ltd.
Date Published: 2020
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Both Dr. Gurdev Parmar and Dr. Tina Kaczor are well-respected founders of the field of naturopathic oncology and established naturopathic oncology practitioners. This textbook will provide every practitioner of integrative oncology with a guide to safe and effective practice.
- The Breast Cancer Companion: A Complementary Care Manual: Third Edition
By Barbara MacDonald, ND, LAc
Date Published: October 26, 2016
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The Breast Cancer Companion: A Complementary Care Manual: Third Edition provides information on how to safely combine conventional and natural treatments that support women during surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, hormone-blocking medications, metastatic treatment including details on drug-nutrient and drug-botanical interactions and strategies for prevention of recurrence.
- The Cancer Industry: The Classic Exposé on the Cancer Establishment
By Ralph W. Moss
Publisher: Moss Reports
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In this e-book, Dr. Ralph Moss exposes the political and economic forces inside the cancer establishment.
- The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen, Second Edition
By Rebecca Katz, MS, with Mat Edelson
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Date Published: 2017
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Featuring science-based, nutrient-rich recipes that are easy to prepare and designed to give patients a much-needed boost by stimulating appetite and addressing treatment side effects, this updated award-winning cookbook brings the healing power of delicious, nutritious foods to those whose hearts and bodies crave a revitalizing meal
- The Definitive Guide to Cancer, 3rd Edition
By Lise Alschuler, ND, FABNO, and Karolyn Gazella
Publisher: Celestial Arts
Date Published: 2010
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Naturopathic oncologist Lise Alschuler and health writer Karolyn Gazella have written The Definitive Guide to Cancer, 3rd Edition: An Integrative Approach to Prevention, Treatment, and Healing for those who have been diagnosed with cancer and their loved ones. “Compassionate while reflecting the most recent science, this book offers a thorough examination of integrative cancer prevention and treatment in an accessible and practical manner. Readers will develop a better understanding of what cancer is, what causes it, how to best prevent it, and how to include complementary therapies into their treatment.” Naturopathic therapies are provided for a number of specific cancers.
- The Definitive Guide to Thriving after Cancer
By Lise N. Alschuler and Karolyn A. Gazella
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Date Published: 2013
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The Definitive Guide to Thriving after Cancer: A Five-Step Integrative Plan to Reduce the Risk of Recurrence and Build Lifelong Health (formerly titled Five to Thrive) outlines a five-step plan integrating both conventional and alternative therapies for cancer survivors.
- The Ecology of Breast Cancer: The Promise of Prevention and the Hope for Healing
By Ted Schettler, MD, MPH
Publisher: Science and Environmental Health Network and the Collaborative on Health and the Environment
Date Published: 2013
In addition to risk factors associated with hormone levels and reproductive development and history, many other, multi-level environmental variables also interact with human breast biology. In considering breast cancer as an ecological disorder, this book reviews and summarizes a large scientific literature and draws practical conclusions to stimulate more widespread efforts to prevent this disease and improve outcomes after diagnosis and treatment.
- The Healing Grace of Cancer
By Makala Kozo Hattori
Date Published: 2017
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Diagnosed with colorectal cancer without having any of the risk factors associated with the disease, Makala Kozo Hattori turned to the indigenous wisdom of Hawaii to heal not only his body, but also his relationships with his family, himself, difficult others, and his broken life.
- The Healing Journey
By O. Carl Simonton, MD, and Reid Henson with Brenda Hampton
Publisher: Authors Choice Press
Date Published: 2002
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Dr. Simonton walks readers through an abbreviated five-day Simonton Patient Program, including a patient’s private journey with cancer, using tools at the heart of the Simonton Program to get and stay well.
- The Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids
Publisher: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Date Published: 2017
Access: free
This book provides a comprehensive review of scientific evidence related to the health effects and potential therapeutic benefits of cannabis. This report provides a research agenda—outlining gaps in current knowledge and opportunities for providing additional insight into these issues—that summarizes and prioritizes pressing research needs.
- The Journey through Cancer: An Oncologist's Seven-Level Program for Healing and Transforming the Whole Person
By Jeremy R. Geffen, MD, FACP
Publisher: Harmony
Date Published: May 23, 2006
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Board-certified oncologist Jeremy Geffen, MD, has spent more than fifteen years providing treatment, guidance, and care for thousands of cancer patients and their families. In this groundbreaking work, he offers real and inspiring solutions to the unique challenges encountered on the cancer journey, while honoring and caring for the whole person—and his or her entire family—at every step along the way.
- The LDN Book
By Linda Elsegood
Publisher: Chelsea Green Pubishing
Date Published: February 15, 2016
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This book explains the drug’s origins, its primary mechanism, and research from practicing physicians and pharmacists.
- The Meals to Heal Cookbook
By Jessica Iannotta and Susan Bratton
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 2017
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This cookbook shares healthy, easy-to-prepare recipes that not only taste delicious but also mitigate the many side effects of cancer treatment.
- The Truth in Small Doses: Why We're Losing the War on Cancer—and How to Win It
By Clifton Leaf
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: August 2014
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Over the past half century, deaths from heart disease, stroke, and so many other killers have fallen dramatically. But cancer continues to kill with abandon. A decade ago, Clifton Leaf, a celebrated journalist and a cancer survivor himself, began to investigate why we had made such limited progress fighting this terrifying disease. The result is a narrative that reveals why the public’s immense investment in research has been badly misspent, why scientists seldom collaborate and share their data, why new drugs are so expensive yet routinely fail, and why our best hope for progress—brilliant young scientists—are now abandoning the search for a cure.
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