CancerCompass message board discussion started by Sleepy123 on 12/19/2007 http://www.cancercompass.com/message-board/message/all,18996,0.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Hi,Can anyone recommend a quality book that truthfully explains Cancer? Mom did pass away from Ovarian Cancer 2 weeks a go. I am fascinating to know what is going on wrong inside the Human body? Preferably an alternative practioners view on this disease would be ideal since I dont trust the Medical establishment.Have a great Holiday everyone. Tom Sleepy123 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT  On 12/19/2007 Sleepy123 wrote:Hi,Can anyone recommend a quality book that truthfully explains Cancer? Mom did pass away from Ovarian Cancer 2 weeks a go. I am fascinating to know what is going on wrong inside the Human body? Preferably an alternative practioners view on this disease would be ideal since I dont trust the Medical establishment.Have a great Holiday everyone. Tom My girlfriend, 46, has Stage IIIB Ovarian cancer that has metastasized to a lymph node in her chest. She was initially told 4 to 6 months from the initial discovery of the cancer on a tumor removal procedure. That was in February 2007. She has some of the best doctors in So. Calif from UCI and Long Beach Memorial and we can't say enough good about Blue Cross. Her physician's assistant suggested (and loaned) me her book on cancer strategies (both mainstream and alternative) written by Ed Mattson called "Just Say No to the Undertaker". He explains all the basics about cancer and even some rather scholarly chemistry and biological information, and the latest treatments from a man-on-the-street perspective. I have used this information to help plan her treatment, not by telling the Drs. what to do, but by being informed enough to suggest (and be accepted) by the Drs. giving suggestions. I was able to spot her acetomenophen lethal level in her pain meds and suggested we try weekly topotecan chemo instead of 5 consecutive days of treatment to possibly reduce side effects.  Please be as informed as possible in this fight against cancer, as we are all touched by cancer, as you well know, by someone close to us in this lifetime, and please try to reconsider mainstream medicine's new methods and technology as being helpful. I have found (cynically I admit) that often the most wonderful success story about someone's cancer cure is that at the end of the letter is a website address, book promo or ways to get a 6 month supply of wonder herbs that killed all one's cancer for $79.95 billed with auto-pay monthly. mistered Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT