Women Confront Cancer: Twenty-One Leaders Making Medical History by Choosing Alternative and Complementary Therapies (University: No.78) - Softcover

Wooddell, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814735878 ISBN 13: 9780814735879

Publisher: NYU Press, 2001

Synopsis

Each year hundreds of thousands of women are diagnosed with cancer, and more and more frequently, women are turning to alternative treatments to take control of their illnesses and their lives. Information, however, has been scarce for women navigating through conventional and unconventional medicine. Research funding continues to support traditional cancer therapies. Women Confront Cancer declares the need for new, less toxic therapies and diagnostic procedures. For the first time, Women Confront Cancer unites the voices of women leaders who have breast, cervical, ovarian, and other cancers. Documenting the decision process, the choices, and the dilemmas these women faced as they chose alternative and complementary cancer treatments, a powerful unity emerges, pointing the way to the future of the diagnosis and treatment of cancer by less toxic methods. Ann Frahm, the author of A Cancer Battle Plan, Susan Moss, the author of Keep Your Breasts, and Cathy Hitchcock, coauthor of Breast Cancer, are only three of the leaders who relate their personal experiences with cancer. All of the women featured in Women Confront Cancer share how and why they created treatment programs that combine the best of conventional and unconventional approaches, and how it has improved their health and their lives. A call for patients' rights, for policy reform in cancer research, for better information about both conventional and alternative medicine, Women Confront Cancer will be both a source of inspiration for women who have cancer and an aid for them in creating their own approach to healing.

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret J. Wooddell was a research biochemist for Burroughs Wellcome Company. She is a doctoral candidate at Rensselar Polytechnic Institute.

Review:

"Without telling us what we ought to do, these women make it clear what we can do: Remember that miracles do occur and that no one, not even orthodox medicine, has all the answers."

-Susun S. Weed,author of Breast Cancer? Breast Health!, The Wise Woman Way

"Women Confront Cancer offers more than case stories of hope triumphing over despair, more than options, alternatives and resources. Its message about individuality, empowerment and leadership makes it must reading for every woman diagnosed with cancer. Its quiet demand for medical freedom of choice and for a patient-driven shift in oncologic policy should be heard by every professional in the cancer field. If ever there was a time for this book, it is now."

-Susan Silberstein, Ph.D.,Executive Director of the Center for Advancement in Cancer Education

"An outstanding contribution to the international debate over breast cancer. Women Confront Cancer not only focuses on exciting new non-conventional treatment options, but allows outspoken women cancer patients to describe their experiences and ordeals in their own words. A landmark in the struggle for patient autonomy."

-Ralph Moss, Ph.D.,author of The Cancer Industry

About this edition

• Publisher: NYU Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0814735878
• ISBN 13: 9780814735879
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288