Anybody doing Life Over Cancer?

skimmed a bit of it on amazon preview: dr block of an AZ clinic uses integrative approach including specific to the patients individual cancer. all the usual conventional methods plus complimentaries that are compatable together.

I did.

went for visit last dec to clinic read the book. he drew my terrain panels. took all the supplements, became vegan or near as I could be. I folloeed his plan as near as I could. had appt made for oct, but found another that would scan me. he found early bone mets. 

did following his plan slow the progression down? I am guessing that some of mychemo wasnt effective. 

if I had it to do over. I would have exercised more. I have had four sx in two years. lot of down time there.

taking all those supplements was hard. I was taking 20+pills day.

Fredntan and Warrior, thanks for the info.

Fredn, I am glad you found an MO you like, and I am also counting on you being here a long time yet.

I would agree with you Jenny that Dr. Block has done a good job of combining the best of both traditional cancer therapy and evidence based complimentary therapies. I first heard of his clinic from a physician friend who was referred there by his MO at Stanford. I had read the book before I was diagnosed and am rereading it now. It makes a lot of sense to me although cutting down sugar consumption is hard. I was already vegetarian so going more toward the vegan was not that hard. His basic thesis is that you use the traditional therapies to kill the cancer cells and then you alter the terrain to make it harder for cancer cells to thrive in the future.

It never made sense to me that there is so much research telling you how to eat and exercise and reduce stress etc. in order to prevent you from getting cancer in the first place but then once you have it they seem to totally ignore those things.

It seems to me that so much of cancer survival is a trade off between quantity of life issues vs. quality of life issues and you have to make tough decisions on how much of one you are willing to balance against possible gain in the other. I can't imagine life without a couple of squares of dark chocolate most days but overall my sugar consumption has dropped dramatically and I feel better without it. They offer some very good recipes on their lifeovercancer.org website. I would suggest spending some time on the website and if it interests you get the book.

His basic thesis is that you use the traditional therapies to kill the cancer cells and then you alter the terrain to make it harder for cancer cells to thrive in the future.

Ah.  If you mean that traditional cancer therapy = conventional cancer therapy... now THAT hypothesis makes sense on so many levels, not just to help lower risk, but to increase optimal health on all levels.  THAT I can get on board with.

I have read both books. These are two of my fav C books. They are similar. But Blocks goes more into the terrains and supplements for each. need to reread both