Your Life in Your Hands: Understanding, Preventing and Overcoming Breast Cancer [Paperback]

It was as if she was being stalked by a supernaturally evil killer that, however many times was vanquished, relentlessly kept coming back to attack. The fourth time the breast cancer re-occurred, Jane Plant felt like giving up: "The chill realisation hit me that it wasn't going to let me go until it had claimed my life," she says in her book Your Life In Your Hands. But Plant didn't give up. Instead, tapping into her scientific training, she set about trying to find a rational reason for the breast cancer.

In the UK, one woman in ten is likely to contract the disease. In China, breast cancer affects one woman in 10,000. It was this startling statistical disparity that led Plant to believe there had to be a dietary trigger for the disease. As she continued her scientific investigations, Plant became convinced she had discovered a causal link between dairy produce and breast cancer.

While Your Life In Your Hands contains hard science to back its claims, Plant manages to spell out the science in a way that is easy for the uninitiated to understand. Plant's research is solid and the evidence is compelling.

As well as telling the remarkable story of one woman's determination to overcome breast cancer, Your Life In Your Hands offers no-nonsense advice on how to deal with doctors, self-examination and coping with treatment. The book also includes Plant's own non-dairy diet: The Plant Programme--The Lifestyle Factors. Plant's tenacious spirit will inspire you. Her findings will surprise you. And her book will empower you to fight against the odds.--Christopher Kelly

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'An astonishing book...it could save you life' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

'indispensable reading'

'An astonishing book...it could save your life'

'Amazing ... Her message is one that every woman must read'

'Ground-breaking'

’Could change the way you view food forever’

'Her message is one that every woman must read'

’Easy to follow and practical for a busy lifestyle’

Jane Plant, an eminent British scientist, suffered from breast cancer five times before she learned of the relationship between diet and disease. This volume tells her story and offers a simple, straightforward programme for adopting a healthier - non-dairy - diet and lifestyle to defeat it.

An amazing and uplifting story by an amazing woman
I imagine we're all a little suspicious of people who claim some kind of scientific breakthrough. It always seems too good to be true - that millions is being spent on research somewhere, yet this one person has come up with the breakthrough they're all looking for. Yet in Professor Jane Plant's case this is exactly what happened. Faced with her fifth bout of breast cancer, she discovered - through the extensive scientific training she's received as a result of a lifetime spent in her chosen discipline, geochemistry - a solution to the problem of breast cancer so simple, and so easily enacted by the hundreds of thousands of people who may be at risk, that is nothing short of amazing. It's also a change we can all make. When I first met Jane she made it clear that she, too, finds this discovery a wonderful thing; not only because it saved her life, and indeed has enhanced it, but has saved the lives of so many people she knows. It's her knowledge, and her passion for communicating that knowledge, which ensures that this is so much more than just another book - just possibly, it's one that will save lives. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

This is the story of the subject that found me!

If someone had suggested to me even 14 years ago when I was 40 that I would one day write a book about breast cancer, I would have said they were talking nonsense. I was dedicated to my own subject of Earth and Environmental Sciences and was busy fighting my way up the career ladder in a very male-dominated world. Then I got breast cancer – not just once, but five times over a period of six years - despite the fact that I thought I was living a very healthy lifestyle. It was also despite the fact that I was being treated at one of the best treatment centres available in the UK and did exactly what my doctors told me to do. In the end I had a secondary tumour the size of half a boiled egg sticking out of my neck above my collarbone.

With only a few months to live, I changed from a victim to someone who used science to take control. I soon learnt enough to be confident that I could change my diet and lifestyle to rid myself of cancer. I kept working during my illness, and my colleagues – all scientists – had seen me become more and more emaciated and gaunt. Once I began testing my theories, however, they saw this situation turn around completely. Over a matter of weeks my tumour had gone, my weight had returned to normal and I looked healthier than ever.

Not unnaturally, when they or their friends and family developed breast cancer they asked me for help and advice. Eventually, friends of friends of friends were asking for my help, and I was getting calls from Canada to Australia, Finland to Greece. I therefore wrote a brochure to inform people, hoping that this would allow me to return to my science. People living a traditional Western lifestyle need a lot of help, though, so in the end I was persuaded to write this book.

I am writing about a subject that I did not choose but a subject that chose me. When I ignored it, it kept reminding me one way or another to do something about it. This book is aimed at helping all women by sharing with them the knowledge I have acquired about breast cancer, both as a five times sufferer and as a scientist turned investigative reporter seeking the truth about a disease as a basis for both prevention and treatment.

I would like to share this knowledge with you.

UPDATE 12th September 2000. "The Bristol Cancer Help Centre, which is a registered charity, now uses a diet similar to that in my book and I recommend all those requiring individual help, advice or support to contact them on 0117 980 9500 (phone) or email info@bristolcancerhelp.org"

Professor Jane Plant, CBE --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Professor Jane Plant suffered from breast cancer five times before she learned of the relationship between diet and the disease. As one of Britain's most eminent scientists, her revolutionary analysis of the underlying causes of breast cancer and her simple and straightforward programme for adopting a healthier diet and lifestyle to defeat it - she has now been clear of the disease for fourteen years - caused shockwaves when it was first published.
In this new edition of Your Life in Your Hands she shares her account of all she has discovered and experienced in dealing with the illness, and updates it with several case studies of those people who have followed her programme. They explore the tribulations of the illness, as well as the positive effects Jane Plant's recommendations have had on their fight with the disease.
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Professor Jane Plant CBE is one of Britain's pre-eminent scientists sitting on many influential government and international committees, and the 1999 recipient of the Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran prize. She was Chief Scientist of the British Geological Survey and is now Chair in Applied Geochemistry at Imperial College, London, and works as a nutritionist at The Dove Clinic for Integrated Medicine. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.