BOOKS

purple32

Book suggestion:

Anti-Cancer , A new way of life.

By David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD

Couldnt devour this hardcover fast enough!  its great, and the author has brain cancer so there is a *real* vested interest there which is impressive.

voraciousreader

The book is excellent. Just want to add that he passed away last year.

vacationbound

I'm so sad to see that this thread hasn't gotten more attention! There are a lot of helpful books out there but the one I believe to be my 2nd bible is the Anti-Cancer: A New Way of Life by David Servan Schreiber. In fact, MD Anderson in Houston Texas has endorsed his book for the Integrative Oncology Center at the hospital. They are developing a diet and nutrition plan for a 5 year study to include all of Schreiber's research findings as the guide to jump start the Integrative Program which did not exist prior to 2007. 

http://www.mdanderson.org/how-you-can-help/make-a-donation/the-servan-schreiber/cohen-anticancer-fund.html

I went to the seminar early this year that Dr. Cohen and David's surviving brother Franklin hosted and the brother touted on looking into your environmental factors and eliminating as many as possible. We live in a carinogenic world and we ignore the obvious most of the time because of our fast paced lives. It takes too long to fill up a stainless steel jug of water then to just grab a plastic water bottle, or it's quicker to heat a TV Dinner in it's pre-pkg's container rather than to remove it and place in a glass bowl to heat. I could go on and on but what I found most interesting is he said that if you are a wine drinker (he is French)  he said that 3/4 of France's import of pesticides are used on the vineyards so your imported expensive bottle of french wine is a pool of pesticide, so buy organic wine when you can. A frenchman who won't drink his own country's wine! Ghastly!!! 

Sandyflats

Chemobrain: How Cancer Therapies Can Affect Your Mind, by Ellen Clegg (2009, Prometheus): An excellent book about cognitive losses after chemotherapy -- what to do about them if you have to have chemotherapy. This book explains how chemotherapy works (at the basic, biological level), gives some stories about survivors (including a mom who was diagnosed with breast cancer in the first trimester of her pregnancy) and calls on the medical system to produce treatments that have fewer side effects. This book has a slightly academic tone.

 Planet Cancer: the Frequently Bizarre Yet Always Informative Experiences and Thoughts of Your Fellow Natives, by Schulz and Adams. This is a moving and often darkly funny collection of essays and snippets by cancer survivors, describing their experiences with surgery, radiation, chemo, amputation, wearing a wig, dating after cancer, and so on. It's not specifically about breast cancer, but if you're wanting an insider's view of life with cancer, this is outstanding. This book has a relaxed, scrap-booky feel but still has depth.

Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: a memoir in comics, by Miriam Engelberg. I loved this graphic novel, that comicly and yet heartbreakingly details the authors journey with breast cancer from diagnosis to Stage IV. I related to this book very much and it got me through some dark hours.