Before and After Cancer Treatment
(2nd edition)
by Julie K. Silver
self help
copyright 2015
read March 2018
rated 8/10: really quite good
I've rated this book as eight out of ten: really quite good. It is "really quite good" -- if you are either before or after treatment for a cancer where there is a high chance of cure or remission.
If you are definitely dying -- with no hope of remission -- then the chapters on "mood" may help... imminent death does not require relentless misery.
You don't have cancer? Excellent! This book still has chapters which are relevant to everyday life. The overall message is, keep calm, keep fit, eat good food. You don't need cancer to benefit from that message.
But the book is aimed at people who have been through the worst treatments for cancer -- and who now want to get back to a normal life. Or at least to a near-as-possible to normal life. As such, it is really quite good.
There is plenty of *bad* advice available. Eat nothing but broccoli. Swallow miraculous pills. Shove liquefied green waste up your backside. Pay a lot of money to a nameless website...
This book admits that there are no miracle cures. Though -- compared to even fifty years ago -- everyday medical science is now miraculous. This book offers advice which is closer to commonsense. And much more likely to help people as they recover from the often extreme measures which actually do help us to live through cancer.
Dr Nick Lethbridge / Consulting Dexitroboper
... Agamedes Consulting / Problems ? Solved
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