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

Keith Block

Random House Publishing Group, Apr 21, 2009 - Health & Fitness - 608 pages

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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User Review  - Anonymous - Borders

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 ...

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

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Surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy may treat cancer but can also necessitate huge changes in lifestyle and body image and predispose the patient to other diseases, recurrence, and death ...

Contents

• Foreword by Andrew Weil M D: 1
• Forming Your Winning Team: 30
• Where Are You Now? QuickStart Maps: 40
• The AntiCancer Diet: 53
• The Life Over Cancer Core Diet Plan: 77
• Individualizing Your Diet: 153
• The Life Over Cancer Core Fitness Plan: 164
• Individualizing Your Fitness Program: 191
• The Rationale: 212
• The Life Over Cancer Core Mind: 230
• Individualizing Your Mind and Spirit Care Plan: 252
• SPHERE: 281
• Fighting CancerPromoting Free Radicals: 300
• Overcoming Cancers Fiery Side: 324
• Mounting: 346
• The Thick: 368
• Breaking Cancers Sugar Addiction: 391
• Creating Healthier Biorhythms: 408
• SPHERE: 431
• When to Call Your Doctor and Go: 442
• The Surgical Support Program: 450
• Enhancing Effectiveness: 478
• Growth: 498
• What to: 516
• The Remission Maintenance Program: 532
• A Note on References and Resources: 550
• About the Author: 589

About the author

Keith I. Block, M.D. is Director of Integrative Medical Education at the University of Illinois College of Medicine; Medical Director of the Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment in Evanston, Illinois; and founder and Scientific Director of the nonprofit Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Education. He is also editor in chief of the peer-reviewed professional journal Integrative Cancer Therapies and a member of the National Cancer Institute’s Physician Data Query Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Editorial Board.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Life Over Cancer: The Block Center Program for Integrative Cancer Treatment; Bantam books
• Author: Keith Block
• Contributor: Andrew Weil, M.D.
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 2009
• ISBN: 0553906380, 9780553906387
• Length: 608 pages
• Subjects: Health & Fitness / Diseases & Conditions / Cancer; Health & Fitness / Healing; Health & Fitness / Pain Management