Rethinking Cancer: Non-Traditional Approaches to the Theories, Treatments and Preventions of Cancer

This volume has been, will be and continues to be the basic bedrock pillar of alternate cancer treatment. It lays out in full a topic-by-topic coherent, practical, and theoretical framework how to really deal with cancer.Not only does it show why modern medicine doesn't get cancer, it also shows how and what alternate approach we might take in order to fully defeat it. It remains a powerful and coherent endictment of the current cancer medical establishment as well as of "counterculture" New Age fads.If one goes to some of the current medical debunking sites that ridicule and warn against alternate cancer therapies, one could find in this book a total point-by-point presentation fully rebutting all their dismissive rhetoric. And a new point of view on the basis of cancer and how to treat and get rid of it!The book's scope is so complete, its vision so compelling, its mandate so revolutionary, that it offers us no choice. Either we seriously reconsider our whole New Age as well as current medical system approaches. OR we amnesia the book and totally forget it! Unfortunately, the latter seems to have occurred.For the sake of total disclosure I must say that I came into personal contact with the author during her last few months. Only in that way was I able to glean an experiential sense of what she was about. Some years later, when I came to peruse the book, I was pleasantly surprised at how fully it presents her mature vision that I had overheard being discussed by her when she was in her mid-90s.

Ruth Sackman is among this century's most diligent and authentic health pioneers swimming against the tide to get the word out that cancer is a degenerative disease at whose root is a sick immune system that just said, "OK, I quit".If everyone would read this book, maybe people would begin by looking under their hood for the cause before smashing the red light on their dashboard (radiation / chemotherapy) with the "cure".No tricks, gimmics or silver bullets. The only thing she's "selling" is common sense and right-eating. She saved my life nine years ago. At every annual visit my oncologist says, "keep doing what you're doing". I'm only following her advice. Try it, you'll live.

Excellent and very helpful imformation. The fear of cancer is, possibly, worse than the disease itself. Traditional medicine offers three choices: Surgery (I had 57 "places" removed before I said "Enough is enough!" and Chemotherapy (who really benefits from a destroyed immune system?) and Radiation (which actually CAUSES cancer). I highy recommend this book plus "The China Study" by Collin Campbell. These two books have changed my life for the better. I am healthy once again, I have more eneergy than when I was in my 30's, I sleep better (the body heals, primarily, during restful sleep), and I enjoy life with no fear of cancer any longer. GLL

Okay, but not much startling or new thinking or ideas, just kind of a rehash of stuff that would be obvious to anyone who has some basic familiarity with alternative health concepts and research. If you know nothing about such topics, then this book is a decent introduction to some of it. I found Andreas Moritz's "Cancer is Not a Disease" book much more interesting and thought-provoking, more innovative in the thinking presented.

I did know many of the points that Ruth made but it was good to be reminded with proof of their efficacy. She explained things simply and it was easy reading. She opened my eyes to several items I had not fully comprehended before and I am already changing the way I eat with good results. I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in their health.

I found it refreshingly honest. It gives responsibility to the individual with the illness to take care of their own health, not to the doctor. It explains the illness of Cancer which to most has been a mystery and therefore a feared illness. It's educational and the average person can understand it.

Ms. Sackman gives a professional in-depth answer to America's difficult cancer delimma. Both her personal search and her accounts of the searches and successes of other survivors gives hope to those facing the cancer fight.

Gives some good advice on how to deal with cancer, through various means outside of the usual radiation and chemotherapy.

a no-nonsnse account of 'alternative' approaches to dealing with cancer. Although most of the info can be found in other books also, Ruth Sackman's extensive experience on the matter is extremely useful.

Good quality.

I Was extremely interested in the contenta of this well written Book.. My father is fighting mulo a after Boeing in remission for The last four years. .. I cannot understand The logic of chemotherepy , it is so destructive to The host . I Saw my father being poisoned before my very eyes.

Very informative about natural ways easey to read

excellent interesting book