Choices In Healing: Integrating The Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer by Michael Lerner
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© 1994 Michael Lerner
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lerner, Michael, 1943 - Choices in healing : integrating the best of conventional and complementary approaches to cancer / Michael Lerner. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-262-12180-8 1. Cancer--Treatment. 2. Cancer--Alternative treatment. 3. Cancer--Popular works. I. Title. RC270.8.L47 1994 616.99é406--dc20 93-39913 CIP
This book is dedicated to Jenifer Altman, Brendan O'Regan, and Max Lerner.
Jenifer Altman was a participant in the Commonweal Cancer Help Program and subsequently a Senior Research Associate at Commonweal.
Brendan O'Regan was Vice President for Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
Max Lerner, my father, was an observer of American civilizations, and a public intellectual.
Each faced a life-threatening illness with courage.
Each lived, as it happened, far beyond what others thought was the appointed time.
Each was a true friend.
Contents
Foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn
PART ONE
Paths of Hope and Ways of Healing
Chapter One
On Never Giving Up Hope: Three Stories
Chapter Two
Healing and Curing: The Starting Point for Informed Choice
PART TWO
Choice in Conventional Cancer TherapiesChapter Three
The Crucial Difference: International Variations in Conventional Cancer Therapies
Chapter Four
The Debate Over Conventional Cancer Therapies
Chapter Five
American Cultures of Conventional Cancer Therapy
Chapter Six
Choosing Conventional Physicians, Hospitals, and Therapies
PART THREE
Choice in Unconventional Cancer Therapies
Chapter Seven
The Debate over Unconventional Cancer Therapies
Chapter Eight
A Framework for Evaluating Unconventional Cancer Therapies
Chapter Nine
Spiritual Approaches to Cancer
Chapter Ten
Psychological Approaches to Cancer
PART FOUR
Mainstream Nutritional Science and the Unconventional Nutritional Cancer Therapies
Chapter Eleven
What Science Says about Nutrition and Cancer: Macronutrients
Chapter Twelve
Can Vitamins and Minerals Help? The Scientific View: Micronutrients
Chapter Thirteen
Unconventional Nutritional Approaches to Cancer--An Overview
Chapter Fourteen
The Gerson Diet--A Radical Anticancer Therapy
Chapter Fifteen
Macrobiotics--A Diet and a Way of Life
Chapter Sixteen
Virginia C. Livingston--Integrating Diet, Nutritional Supplements, and Immunotherapy
Chapter Seventeen
Keith Block--Integrating Diet, Fitness, and Psychological Support into an Oncology
Practice
PART FIVE
Physical, Traditional, and Pharmacological Therapies
Chapter Eighteen
Physical and Energetic Approaches-- Exercise, Massage, Therapeutic Touch,
and Chiropractic
Chapter Nineteen
Traditional Chinese Medicine--A Favored
Adjunctive Therapy for American Cancer
Patients
Chapter Twenty
Unconventional Pharmacological Therapies--
An Overview
Chapter Twenty-one
Stanislaw Burzynski--Antineoplastons
on the Edge of Medical Credibility
Chapter Twenty-two
Joseph Gold--Does Hydrazine Sulfate
Prevent Weight Loss and Extend
Life with Cancer?
Chapter Twenty-three
Emanuel Revici--Will His Unique
Therapy Ever Be Scientifically Assessed?
PART SIX
Living with Cancer
Chapter Twenty-four
Living with Cancer
Chapter Twenty-five
Controlling Pain
Chapter Twenty-six
On Living and Dying
Chapter Twenty-seven
Making Your Choices
Appendix A
Choice in Resources
Appendix B
Professional Training Programs in Spiritual and Psychological Approaches to Cancer