From Incurable to Incredible: Cancer Survivors Who Beat the Odds

I'm in the process of reading it now. Very,very encouraging. When I saw the title, I immediately downloaded on Amazon, yesterday and today ordered 3 hard copies to hand out to others. I've checked out many of the sights they have within the chapters...great resources, plus the questions at the end of each section would be good for a book study with support groups with cancer. One of the 3 copies, I will give to my daughter who is 31 with melanoma of the eye, another will go to another young woman with cancer I know who has been given months to live. The last I'm sure God will give me the name for whom it should go to. I too have been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer...but this book is assuring me what I already know. I'm thankful to the Nurses, Dr's and medicine...but God is the great physician...He is the one who knows the number of our days. Just Hang on to Him.

I have lived with metastatic breast cancer for over 7 years now. Tami, thank you for writing this book. Dealing with life threatening illness is a lonely road to travel and I appreciated hearing about other people's journeys. These were very "real"- addressing the highs and the lows in each person's journey. I'd say the overlying theme was that these survivors found meaning and purpose and a way to give back. The stories were succinct and well written. If anything I would have liked a bit more detail. Some of the stories lacked medical detail and I questioned a few of the claims. As I medical practitioner I would have liked more substantiation however, everybody has their story and here they told what was true for them. It is powerful to learn that miracles do happen and people do beat the odds. Inspiring for all.

This was an excellent book for those who have gone through the medical machine with cancer. When the medical machine has done all they could do they give us a death sentence and send us home to die. That is the time to look for the door or path leading to healing.Our bodies can heal themselves, we just need to participate in that process beginning with believing we can. Incorporate visualization, prayer, spiritual practice (spirt is spirit, energy) not one spiritual path is better then the rest. All lead to the source. The most important part of healing ourselves is unconditional love to everyone you meet. With that amount of love the world shifts and our plant also begins to heal.

I discovered this book shortly after being diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer and it was the most encouraging and helpful thing I could have read at that point. It gave me hope and a whole new way of looking at my diagnosis. I highly recommend this book to anyone who finds themselves in a similar situation. Now whenever I have a bad day, I go back to this book and read a chapter or two about someone who didn't let the cancer defeat their spirit, who managed to really "live" with their diagnosis and beyond the prognosis, and it's the shot I need to keep my spirit strong, as important to me as the shots I get to physically control the cancer!

I am living with Stage IV cancer - this is one of my all time favorite books I've read as a cancer patient. Fills you with HOPE and it covers "fully identified real people" who have beaten the odds/statistics -- in contrast to some of the squishier anecdotes you see a lot floating around the web.Highly recommended - it and "Anti-Cancer" by David Servan-Schreiber are the two books I recommend whenever I meet someone newly diagnosed! They are both great books in different/complimentary ways!

This was one of my favorite books while I was undergoing chemotherapy. it gave me strength when I was up in the early hours of the morning struggling to understand what was going on...and wanting some positive words...the stories were very important to me....and were reread often.

This book is a must-read! The stories Tami has included are beyond inspirational. I talk a lot about cancer prevention, but after reading these stories, I am overwhelmed with the realization that the mind-body connection is very powerful, and that more attention needs to be paid to this as a cure as well as a critical part of treatment. Thank you for sharing these stories of courage and for reminding us to reach out to others. These people truly embrace life and the opportunity to help others and that is a lesson for all of us.

I bought this book to have on hand if/when someone I know is diagnosed with cancer. I read this many years ago. I learned so much from it. If you or someone you know receives a cancer diagnosis, I highly recommend this book.

The author of the book offers a selection of people with different types of cancer who have survived although the negative prognosis. This is encouraging and sends a message of hope. However, the author is very biased towards using surgery, radiation and chemotherapy as the only treatment options while dealing with cancer. Unfortunately, the treatment methods mentioned still have low success rates for the majority types of cancer. Therefore, it would be more interesting and encouraging to be presented with the accounts of people who were failed by the usual methods of treatment "advertised" in this book and who although everything managed to beat the odds.

The perfect book for anyone affected by cancer. Will lift the spirits and create positivity.

I enjoyed this book, however I did feel it was also an ad campaign for a very expensive anti cancer fighting natural remedy!!

very inspirational

I bought this book when I was diagnosed with incurable cancer two years ago (and I'm still here and doing well). The book is a collection of anecdotes, but it does illustrate that long term continuing survival or recovery does happen, and long term survivors tend to have several common, positive, and for want of a better word, "connected" traits and behaviours. It does not promise a "recipe" for survival, but fundamentally, the book is about hope for living better, and living longer, than the odds might otherwise suggest.