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Life Over Cancer: The Block Center Program for Integrative Cancer Treatment

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Average Customer Rating:	5.0
Release Date:	2009-04-21
Publisher:	Bantam
Author	Keith Block
Number of pages:	608
ISBN:	0553801147
Language:	Unknown: English; Original Language: English; Published: English;
Foreword	Andrew Weil M.D.

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Dr. Keith Block is at the global vanguard of innovative cancer care. As medical director of the Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment in Evanston, Illinois, he has treated thousands of patients who have lived long, full lives beyond their original prognoses. Now he has distilled almost thirty years of experience into the first book that gives patients a systematic, research-based plan for developing the physical and emotional vitality they need to meet the demands of treatment and recovery.

Based on a profound understanding of how body and mind can work together to defeat disease, this groundbreaking book offers:

• Innovative approaches to conventional treatments, such as “chronotherapy”–chemotherapy timed to patients’ unique circadian rhythms for enhanced effectiveness and reduced toxicity

• Dietary choices that make the biochemical environment hostile to cancer growth and recurrence, and strengthen the immune system’s ability to attack remaining cancer cells

• Precise supplement protocols to tame treatment side effects, relieve disease-related symptoms, and modify processes like inflammation and glycemia that can fuel cancer if left untreated

• A new paradigm for exercise and stress reduction that restores your strength, reduces anxiety and depression, and supports the body’s own ability to heal

• A complete program for remission maintenance–a proactive plan to make sure the cancer never returns

Also included are “quick-start” maps to help you find the information you need right now and many case histories that will support and inspire you. Encouraging, compassionate, and authoritative, Life over Cancer is the guide patients everywhere have been waiting for.

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ISBN13: 9780553801149

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« Cancer book »

I have found a lot of useful information in this book. It is not always layed out in the most logical manner, but is still very useful. I intend to follow most of the recommendations to prevent recurance of my breast cancer.

Rating: (5 out of 5) @ 2010-08-24

« A book for hope »

I stumbled upon this book, after reading several other cancer books, and found it to be the most thorough and hopeful book on the subject. There is certainly no shortage of opinions regarding the treatment of cancer, but this book provided me with a sense of comfort that there really was somebody that had done the research and had clear opinions about how to regain one's good quality of life. In a time of uncertainty and possibly fear, the shear weight of the research that went into this book made a huge difference to me.

Rating: (5 out of 5) @ 2010-07-31

« From the Father of Integrative Oncology »

Dr. Keith Block - referred to by Andrew Weil as the "father" of integrative oncology - has created the best cancer guidebook ever written (and I've reviewed plenty of them in my seventeen years as a Cancer Patient Advocate and survivor of three separate primary cancers -- kidney, colon and prostate). Dr. Block's 600-page book "is the program every cancer patient deserves in order to have the best chance for recovery and restoration of health," states Weil, who wrote the foreword to Life Over Cancer. I couldn't agree more!

I have known of Dr. Block's international reputation as a clinician, researcher and educator - he's also the editor of a leading medical journal, Integrative Cancer Therapies - because we serve together on a National Cancer Institute editorial review board dealing with Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Google PDQ CAM). I'm one of two Patient Advocates on this panel of otherwise noted doctors and scientists. But it was only recently when my prostate cancer appeared again in my left pelvic wall that I came to know what a remarkably unique doctor Keith Block really is. Having a clear, accessible "Radiation Support Program," outlined in his book, was enormously helpful at the start of my Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy at UCLA, but I knew I couldn't stop with just reading. I knew I had to get on a plane and get to Evanston (just north of Chicago) and experience The Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment for myself. And what an experience it was: two days of non-stop sessions with the most informative doctors, nutritionists, physical therapists, and mind-spirit counselors I have ever met under one roof.

And yes, I did come away with some new supplements and nutraceauticals which I wasn't taking before, but that's because Dr. Block and his accommodating staff are willing to take the time to explain exactly what Scutelleria baicalensis is, for example, and how this and the other supplements that were recommended for me can help me during this stage of my treatment. The Block Center, I learned, only began to sell supplements after they saw first-hand the disparity in quality and potency that exist in the supplement market, not such a surprise when one is aware that the FDA does not regulate or monitor the quality of "dietary supplements!" Many years ago - in fact years before most other cancer centers were doing so - the Block Center ran tests, known as "terrain panels," on patients and then recommended specific supplements to correct any imbalances. Some patients did extremely well, however, others saw little or no improvement and, in some cases, their blood levels worsened. It soon became clear that because supplement quality and potency varied, it was impossible to make a blanket recommendation for just any supplement on the market with the expectation that the quality and potency will meet acceptable standards. Thus, I learned, the products the Block Center sells are formulated by Dr. Block with no ingredients included that cancer patients shouldn't be taking - and their formulations are placed into independent testing for quality, purity, potency and absorbability.

The CENTER'S "Anti-cancer Diet" and the basic "Block Center Core Diet Plans" are worth the price of Life Over Cancer alone, but added to that are very helpful chapters on Physical Care and Mind and Spirit Care as well. All of this sound advice is patient-centered and is not just scientifically-based, but sensitively based at the same time.

I know of no better single volume than this for helping cancer patients boost their biology and enhance their treatment programs, be it surgery, chemo or radiation. With Dr. Keith Block there is always more that can be done, and he and his staff at the Evanston, Illinois Block Center leave no stone unturned. Your cancer care can cost tens - even hundreds - of thousands of dollars, but I promise you there will be no better expenditure of $25 than the purchase of this book.
I wish you good reading and good health. --Carl Douglas Rogers, Patient Advocate, Los Angeles, CA

Rating: (5 out of 5) @ 2010-07-17

« Very Informative and Useful Information »

Dr. Block's book has much to commend it: well written; clear; detailed supportive information explaining the basis for his conclusions. If you're going through cancer treatment or are caring for someone who is, I recommend this book to you.

Rating: (5 out of 5) @ 2010-07-10

« The best book I've read on integrative cancer treatment »

I've read a lot of books on cancer since two family members have become cancer survivors. This one is, without question, the best. When someone is diagnosed with cancer, your everyday life turns into a world of surgeries, tests, chemotherapy, and possibly radiation therapy. The process of determining the stage of the disease, finding a surgeon and understanding what kind of treatments are necessary can be overwhelming. Side effects and stress can make you feel like you're running fast on a treadmill that you can't turn off. Keith Block does a wonderful job of explaining the disease, the treatment process and how to get through it all much better than any of the medical professionals that we've dealt with on this journey that we didn't ask to be on to begin with.

When an oncologist told us, "Eat whatever you want" when a family member was undergoing chemotherapy, I just had to question this thinking. How could eating a diet high in sugar, red meats, fat and nitrates be a good thing when those are the things that guidelines for preventing cancer say to avoid? Is a person supposed to just give up and do all the things one isn't supposed to do to prevent the disease once he has it? The Block Center Program for integrative cancer treatment doesn't just deal with conventional medicine like surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, but with scientifically supported complementary therapies. These include diet, supplements, exercise and fitness and mind and spirit care. In short, they treat the whole person rather than just the diseased part. Rather than just treating the symptoms of the disease and the tumor, they do everything they can do attack what could be the cause of the cancer to try to prevent a recurrence or to at least allow the person to live the best life they can with the diagnosis they are handed.

I found the book to be a book of hope, not just hype, but therapies based on science and emerging science, treating the whole person. For a diagnosis that can be so devastating, this book lays out some positive things that the patient and caregivers can do for a better outcome. I would recommend this book for anyone who is interested in integrative cancer care.

Rating: (5 out of 5) @ 2010-05-26

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