Rethinking Cancer: Non-Traditional Approaches to the Theories Treatments and Pre

Description: Rethinking Cancer by Ruth Sackman For over thirty years, the Foundation for Advancement in Cancer Therapy (FACT) has acted as a consumer advocacy group, educating cancer patients about alternative therapies and their rights as patients. Although traditional traditional medical groups have often ignored or disregarded the groundbreaking work of complementary medical researchers, FACT has provided these pioneers with a platform to be heard. The foundation's intention has never been to discredit conventional medicine, but rather to scrutinize alternative therapies and enable cancer patients and their families to make informed decisions regarding treatment options. Unfortunately, there still remains a major gap in the distribution of information on noninvasive treatments. To meet this challenge, Ruth Sackman, cofounder and President of Fact, has written Rethinking Cancer. Here, you'll find pertinent information on a wide variety of topics, including the major role of nutrition in health, the methods available to repair the body's biological breakdowns, and strategies for achieving detoxification. The author provides valid research and offers specific advice on treating the body as a whole, rather than treating just the cancer. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description For more than 30 years the Foundation for Advancement in Cancer Therapy (FACT) has acted as a consumer advocacy group educating cancer patients about biologically sound alternative therapies and their rights as patients. Although traditional medical groups have often ignored or disregarded the groundbreaking work of complementary medical researchers FACT has provided these pioneers with a platform to be heard. The foundations intention has never been to discredit conventional medicine but rather to scrutinize alternative therapies and enable cancer patients and their families to make informed decisions regarding treatment options. In this book youll find pertinent information on a wide variety of topics including the major role of nutrition in health the methods available to repair the bodys biological breakdowns and strategies for achieving detoxification. The author provides valid research drawn from around the world and offers specific advice on treating the body as a whole rather than just the cancer. Author Biography Ruth Sackman has been the co-founder and president of the Foundation for Advancement in Cancer Therapy, a consumer advocacy organization that provides information on alternative cancer therapies. Ms. Sackman dedicated her life to the pursuit of nontoxic approaches to the treatment of cancer. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction 1. Toward an Understanding of Health and Disease 2. Cancer: the Total Person Approach 3. Repairing the Biological Breakdown 4. The Symptoms Associated with Biological Repair 5. Balanced Nutrition for Better Health 6. Detoxification: Prerequisite for Repair 7. Some Psychological Considerations 8. Some Physical Considerations 9. Metabolic Programs and Adjunctive Therapies Appendices I. Case Histories II. Questions and Answers Conclusion Bibliography Index Introduction or Preface For a number of years many of my associates at the Foundation for Advancement in Cancer Therapy (FACT), doctors, friends, members and others in the health field, have urged me to write a book that would systematically document all the knowledge I had acquired about the biological approach to cancer, health and disease. It was their feeling that what I had learned through my extensive experience as president of FACT should be made readily available to the largest possible number of patients and practitioners. I was extremely reticent about introducing a revolutionary concept of cancer to a population accustomed to the present concept of cancer as an inviolate truth. Letting go of established ideas can be very difficult. Even so, periodically, I had promised myself to take off the considerable time that would be necessary to think through and carry out such an ambitious undertaking. For, indeed, I had felt all along that there was a great and growing need to help a broader spectrum of people learn about biological approaches to cancer treatment and other degenerative ailments that have developed over many decades, than was possible through the often hectic daily operations of the foundation. More than that, I had been troubled not only by a lack of popular understanding of this important subject, but also by the enormous amount of misinformation that is now being disseminated under the banner of so-called "alternative therapies." With these ends in mind, I spent a number of years compiling information. This book is based on my experiences, investigations, observations and conclusions gathered over the past 30 years on this subject. The outcome of this labor is this volume, Rethinking Cancer : Non-Traditional Approaches to the Theories, Treatments and Prevention of Cancer. My colleagues and I at FACT firmly believe in the publics right to be fully informed about the biological approach to the restoration of health, non-toxic cancer therapies and alternatives to orthodox treatments for cancer. To help make this possible, I shall try to pass on to you, the reader, all of the considerable information about the biological concept of health care collected by FACT under unique conditions. I have acquired this knowledge through direct contact with many thousands of cancer patients, with many doctors (clinicians) who are practicing this therapeutic direction and my visits to the many clinics in Europe, Mexico and the United States. By bringing this in-depth material together in one place, I hope that it can be more effectively utilized by the practitioner, the patient and their family. I cannot emphasize strongly enough that the purpose of this book is not to give advice or recommend specific procedures to anyone. My aim is, rather, to make available carefully scrutinized information based on my years of experience. Once he or she has acquired sufficient information, he or she should be in a position to make intelligent decisions as a medical consumer. Although I believe that the ultimate responsibility for getting well lies with the patient, I urge him or her to seek the help of a competent advisor. It is not FACTs intent to discredit practitioners of standard medicine. Nor do we question the skill, sincerity or integrity of physicians. We have excellent relations and work cooperatively with qualified doctors in the United States, Canada, Europe and other areas of the world. Over the years FACT has given financial support to a number of biological investigations by men and women of science at established research institutions. Actually, attitudes toward biological concepts on the part of many within the medical profession are much better today than they were even a short time ago. For example, we at FACT are beginning to find that information about cancer coming to us from conventional sources confirms what we have been saying to the cancer patient and the public-at-large for years. FACT has always considered a balanced metabolic program the backbone of biological therapy--the nutrients in the food supply are the essential elements for building normal healthy cells. More than a decade ago the National Cancer Institute established a department of diet and nutrition (now dissolved) and published a pamphlet with nutritional guidelines which is still available to the public, whereas, several decades ago conventional medicine negated any cancer/diet link. I am also pleased to note that the American Cancer Society, one of the major bastions of orthodox cancer therapies, held a seminar on the subject of nutrition and cancer. In these and many other ways, we think that the climate is moving--albeit far too slowly to be sure--toward acceptance of the biological repair system as a valid direction in cancer treatment. The Concept of Biological Repair How do FACTs views on cancer treatment differ from those held by traditional medicine? Briefly, the conventional approach believes that the tumor itself is, in effect, the disease and that cancer can be efficiently controlled by directing the therapy toward destroying the malignancy. The treatments most frequently used are radiation, chemotherapy, surgery and hormone inhibitors, or a combination of these procedures. Thus, the major focus of this traditional approach is tumor destruction. We at FACT, on the other hand, support a concept of cancer as being a systemic malfunction which requires a biological repair. According to this concept, cancer cells are only a symptom of a dysfunction of the organism, resulting from a steady breakdown in the balance of body chemistry. Only by restoring the balance through safe and sound biological means can the disease be truly controlled. Conjointly, we believe that if given the proper support and a better lifestyle, the bodys own inherent ability to repair itself could prevent cancer in the vast majority of cases. The major focus of the biological approach, therefore, is host integrity. This is not a lay point of view, but an approach held by many practitioners over many decades who treated degenerative diseases by restoring the balance in body chemistry to its recovery potential through the use of biologically sound techniques--balanced nutrition and other forms of non-toxic, non-invasive therapies. After a thorough investigation of the writings of scientists and doctors, and close contact with many of them as well as with recovered cancer patients, I have concluded that these views offer the cancer patient an opportunity for a realistic, long-term recovery. There exists a long list of highly competent practitioners--some going back to the latter part of the nineteenth century--who treated disease by optimizing the bodys ability to repair itself. There was Max Gerson, M.D., a man who was lauded by Dr. Albert Schweitzer as "one of the most eminent geniuses in medical history." Other notable doctors include: John H. Tilden, M.D.; Benedict Lust, M.D.; I. Duncan Bulkley, M.D.; John Harvey Kellogg, M.D.; Are Waerland, Ph.D.; Norman W. Walker, D.Sci.; William Howard Hay, M.D.; Henry Bieler, M.D.; Max Warmbrand, N.D.; Andrew Ivy, M.D.; William Frederick Koch, M.D.; Julian Baldor, M.D.; Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, M.D.; as well as many others. Today immunotherapeutic techniques are recognized as a valid treatment in medical circles. Drs. Andrew Ivy and William Frederick Koch were supporters of immunotherapy early in the twentieth century. It is important to note that practitioners came to similar conclusions while working independently of one another--some in the United States, others in Europe and elsewhere. This phenomenon is evidence that helps to validate the biological repair approach to cancer treatment. Hunger for Health Today the publics hunger for health information is enormous. To a greater degree than ever before, people are deeply concerned about a wide range of factors that might affect their well-being: the air they breathe, the foods they eat, the water they drink, and the quality of medical care they receive. To answer this thirst for knowledge, a flood of material is now available on every conceivable health question--from environmental problems to dietary regimes, from cancer to high blood pressure, from meditation techniques to proper breathing, from spinal alignment to temporomandibular joint (TMJ) adjustment. A glance at the bookshelf in any health food or book store will confirm that publications relating to health are among the most saleable commodities. What accounts for this tremendous surge of interest in matters dealing with health? In my opinion the reason for this interest is--to put it bluntly--the increasing sickness of our population. In alarming numbers people are not well--and I am referring not only to the virtual epidemic of cancer, but to every other form of degenerative illness as well. I came across a book written by a German scientist, Dr. Johannes Kuhl, which documents the total number of individuals who are being treated for all kinds of major degenerative diseases. Let me assure you that the statistics in this book make for pretty grim reading! Too many people who depend on conventional doctoring are not getting good results. They are discovering that the medications and other treatments they have been receiving are not restoring their health. These medications temporarily alleviate symptoms without getting at the underlying causes of the illness. Unfortunately, many of the medicines have side effects, and therefore, should be used only when absolutely necessary, not just to avoid minor discomfort. Today there are simply too many sick people. Nature didnt create a situation where so many human beings are doomed to suffer from all kinds of major ailments such as cancer, and to die in a slowly deteriorating, often agonizingly painful process, or linger on for Details ISBN0757000932 Author Ruth Sackman Short Title RETHINKING CANCER Publisher Square One Publishers Language English ISBN-10 0757000932 ISBN-13 9780757000935 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 616.994 Illustrations Yes Imprint Square One Publishers Place of Publication Garden City Park, NY Country of Publication United States Edition 1st Subtitle Non-Traditional Approaches to the Theories Treatments and Prevention of Cancer DOI 10.1604/9780757000935 AU Release Date 2004-02-27 NZ Release Date 2004-02-27 US Release Date 2004-02-27 UK Release Date 2004-02-27 Pages 248 Year 2004 Publication Date 2004-02-27 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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