- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Long Island Press Ltd (1 May 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0954596013
- ISBN-13: 978-0954596019
- Product Dimensions: 2.4 x 1.9 x 0.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 209,033 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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There are dozens of cures for cancer. When Jonathan's wife, Bernadette, was diagnosed with cancer, Jonathan realised he knew nothing about the disease. "What I needed was a sane, personal, intelligent and critical voice that could lead me through these contending beliefs; that could put both sides of the case and point up the limitations of any arguments there might be. But I never found this voice. So, I have taken it upon myself to provide this voice for others. This then is the book I wish I had had at hand when Bern was diagnosed with cancer." "Chamberlain has a voice that is at once humble and powerful. I like writers that cut to the chase, and then do not skimp on the practical details... and I really like his attitude. He speaks from the heart, but clearly wants you to use your head. Good combination." - Andrew Saul, PhD, Doctor Yourself Website "Thank you for the organization of a fragmented body of information. This book is now the reference book on alternative treatments." - Jim Cole "I now can recommend your book. as 'the' book to read. You have covered just about everything that I have read, and it took me over twenty books and innumerable downloads to do it. The book is more precious than gold!" - Richard Thompson, cancer patient "This book tells me everything I want to know. Why didn't my doctor tell me this?" - Rev. Bill Newbern
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This `big book' is co-published with a `little book' ( Cancer Recovery Guide: 15 Alternative and Complementary Strategies for Restoring Health ) that provides a speedy overview of the options and strategies.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I recommend this book to everyone, whether or not you have cancer, as 'The' reference book on cancer. This book gives hope. It exposes that surgery and chemotherapy are just part of a huge armoury of cancer fighting therapies. It explains clearly the arguments for and against the multitude of treatments, both preventive and curative, and how to find them. I wish I had read this before I was diagnosed as doctors and the cancer charities didn't tell me any of this.
On a minor negative note, there are several typos which irritated me and, for such a well researched book, I would have liked to see a citation and bibliography section.
On a minor negative note, there are several typos which irritated me and, for such a well researched book, I would have liked to see a citation and bibliography section.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Cancer: The Complete Recovery Guide
I found Jonathan Chamberlain Cancer The complete Recovery Guide as the first (with his `small book) of the help guides after I was given a `sentence' of cancer, and had already started Radiotherapy. I must say that this wonderful book opened the panorama of a whole world of NATURAL therapies, supplements, helps, aiding agents, everything indeed that can help a reluctant patient, a `patient' impatient with the mainstay of official medicine surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. And especially with the losing sight of the whole person in the hospital institutions I have been lucky that I fell only for radiotherapy, which has the greet merit (!) of having been used for over a hundred years. Well foods rich with vitamins, phytonutrients, compounds that are beneficial to the human organism, both in health and in need of extra help to recover from `deviations', have been in use much much longer, for that matter. But they have not been singled out by official medicine, have not been worth to pharmaceutical companies to test, as probably they would not been able to patent the Red Meeker Rapberry (Ellagic Acid) or the skins of red grapes (Resveratrol), for instance. The ortodox medicine therapies, some of them, are also hampered by the Hippocratic oath, whose first line asks the doctors to be faithful and honor their teachers... I wonder how they are not sending out to the ditches their slaves to collect leeches? However, Jonathan does not hold a grudge nor does he pursue a diatribe with conventional treatments, alhough their review is concise but full, informative and clear. But he looks forward instead, and he displays in his encyclopaedic book, clearly and wonderfully informed, just what it says on the cover: "Everything that everyone should know about cancer and how to recover from it". And indeed it is `everything'. Because, he says "You Have the Choice of Being or not Being a Victim" And so in Section 3 (after section 1 and 2 have given basic fact about cancer, statistics, the orthodox treatments - including the precious information as to how reduce the side effects, which I never had from doctors, much as I asked), there is everything but everything that has been tried, found useful, often successful, always clearly analysed - what are the particular chemical, for instance, in cabbage and all cruciferous vegetables, that has been proved to have such and such an effect and what supplement can be found that provides it).
Easily divided in sub-sections, Dietary approaches, Vitamins, Herbs, Biological Therapies, and so on and on.
I found the Index at the end absolutely essential to my reading and `revising' of items of choice, or of promise. But everything is of promise in this book. Every day I go for radiotherapy hoping that I won't find my good bits inside also burnt to a frazzle (but they haven't, I have nearly finished), I go back to one or various hopeful supplements to help me out seaweeds, vitamins, extra virgin olive oil, many more, and to make a bit of food because some of those have to be taken with food!
Thanks Mr Chamberlain for that enormously rich, and eminently readable, book. Oh, and look at the website [...]
I found Jonathan Chamberlain Cancer The complete Recovery Guide as the first (with his `small book) of the help guides after I was given a `sentence' of cancer, and had already started Radiotherapy. I must say that this wonderful book opened the panorama of a whole world of NATURAL therapies, supplements, helps, aiding agents, everything indeed that can help a reluctant patient, a `patient' impatient with the mainstay of official medicine surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. And especially with the losing sight of the whole person in the hospital institutions I have been lucky that I fell only for radiotherapy, which has the greet merit (!) of having been used for over a hundred years. Well foods rich with vitamins, phytonutrients, compounds that are beneficial to the human organism, both in health and in need of extra help to recover from `deviations', have been in use much much longer, for that matter. But they have not been singled out by official medicine, have not been worth to pharmaceutical companies to test, as probably they would not been able to patent the Red Meeker Rapberry (Ellagic Acid) or the skins of red grapes (Resveratrol), for instance. The ortodox medicine therapies, some of them, are also hampered by the Hippocratic oath, whose first line asks the doctors to be faithful and honor their teachers... I wonder how they are not sending out to the ditches their slaves to collect leeches? However, Jonathan does not hold a grudge nor does he pursue a diatribe with conventional treatments, alhough their review is concise but full, informative and clear. But he looks forward instead, and he displays in his encyclopaedic book, clearly and wonderfully informed, just what it says on the cover: "Everything that everyone should know about cancer and how to recover from it". And indeed it is `everything'. Because, he says "You Have the Choice of Being or not Being a Victim" And so in Section 3 (after section 1 and 2 have given basic fact about cancer, statistics, the orthodox treatments - including the precious information as to how reduce the side effects, which I never had from doctors, much as I asked), there is everything but everything that has been tried, found useful, often successful, always clearly analysed - what are the particular chemical, for instance, in cabbage and all cruciferous vegetables, that has been proved to have such and such an effect and what supplement can be found that provides it).
Easily divided in sub-sections, Dietary approaches, Vitamins, Herbs, Biological Therapies, and so on and on.
I found the Index at the end absolutely essential to my reading and `revising' of items of choice, or of promise. But everything is of promise in this book. Every day I go for radiotherapy hoping that I won't find my good bits inside also burnt to a frazzle (but they haven't, I have nearly finished), I go back to one or various hopeful supplements to help me out seaweeds, vitamins, extra virgin olive oil, many more, and to make a bit of food because some of those have to be taken with food!
Thanks Mr Chamberlain for that enormously rich, and eminently readable, book. Oh, and look at the website [...]
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a book that everyone should read.
A great proportion of us, at some point in our lives, will experience cancer ourselves or through someone close to us.
Following the death of the author's wife from cervical cancer, on reflection the biggest mistake he feels they made was listening to what the doctors advised - she 'could not have died sooner if we had done nothing'.
Having just been through surgery myself to remove a breast cancer lump and facing follow-up treatments such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy and hormone therapy, I am so glad I was tipped off to read this book.
It tells a lot more about the 'orthodox' treatments for many different types of cancer, including statistics on the actual effectiveness of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and hormone therapy and a full list of the possible side effects of these - much more information than the doctors gave me. I was also able to ask more relevant questions about the proposed treatments, how they work, and why they would be given.
The latter two thirds of the book are devoted to 'alternative' ways of treating the body to rid itself of the cancer by holistic means - seeing the cancer as a symptom - not the cause - of the body's 'dis-ease'.
This book helps to put things in perspective and was invaluable to me in making my decisions about follow-up treatment. In hindsight, if I'd have read it before I had the surgery, I would probably have persevered with 'alternative' means of treating myself first - under the guidance of my natural health practitioners, who I'll be continuing to work with in order to treat my 'whole' self as a preventive measure against any further 'dis-ease'.
The author does not advocate either the 'orthodox' or 'alternative' route, but suggests the reader should decide on the treatment - or combination of approaches - that are right for themselves.
Please, absorb the vast amount of information within this book and make the right choices - knowing you now have so much more information at your fingertips than the doctors will ever tell you.
A great proportion of us, at some point in our lives, will experience cancer ourselves or through someone close to us.
Following the death of the author's wife from cervical cancer, on reflection the biggest mistake he feels they made was listening to what the doctors advised - she 'could not have died sooner if we had done nothing'.
Having just been through surgery myself to remove a breast cancer lump and facing follow-up treatments such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy and hormone therapy, I am so glad I was tipped off to read this book.
It tells a lot more about the 'orthodox' treatments for many different types of cancer, including statistics on the actual effectiveness of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and hormone therapy and a full list of the possible side effects of these - much more information than the doctors gave me. I was also able to ask more relevant questions about the proposed treatments, how they work, and why they would be given.
The latter two thirds of the book are devoted to 'alternative' ways of treating the body to rid itself of the cancer by holistic means - seeing the cancer as a symptom - not the cause - of the body's 'dis-ease'.
This book helps to put things in perspective and was invaluable to me in making my decisions about follow-up treatment. In hindsight, if I'd have read it before I had the surgery, I would probably have persevered with 'alternative' means of treating myself first - under the guidance of my natural health practitioners, who I'll be continuing to work with in order to treat my 'whole' self as a preventive measure against any further 'dis-ease'.
The author does not advocate either the 'orthodox' or 'alternative' route, but suggests the reader should decide on the treatment - or combination of approaches - that are right for themselves.
Please, absorb the vast amount of information within this book and make the right choices - knowing you now have so much more information at your fingertips than the doctors will ever tell you.
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Purchased this on the strength of a recommendation, understand the concept behind one of the theories author has written about, feel his pain with his loss but so much negativity... Read more
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I didn't like the tone of the style of writing and it didn't provide me with what it suggested it might. If you are looking for guidance to recover from cancer, this isn't it. . Read more
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