Unraveling Cancer: Cancer Prevention Even After Diagnosis

· Psy Press
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500
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Unraveling Cancer describes the forces that cause cancer development and outlines a framework for understanding how, in health, the body is able to eliminate cells that have cancer-causing mutations. This book describes how lifestyle habits can interfere with these protective mechanisms, and explains how we can most effectively modify our habits and greatly lower the risk of developing cancer. The same forces that cause cancer also promote its growth and transition into an aggressive, metastatic disease. Making lifestyle and dietary changes even after a cancer diagnosis can reduce cancer growth, enhance treatment, and help prevent recurrence.Unraveling Cancer focuses on modifiable risk factors that can promote or help prevent cancer, even for persons with a high genetic risk of disease, such as women with BRCA mutations. These modifiable risk factors include foods and their preparation methods which impact cancer risk. This book describes better ways of preparing foods that provide for better health and lower cancer risk. The book explains which types of exercise are effective and those that do not lower cancer risk. It provides strategies to lower cancer risk, even if one is unable to exercise. Some cancer risk factors have their greatest impact during growth, and Unraveling Cancer explains how we can protect our children and grandchildren now from developing cancer as adults.Unraveling Cancer instructs not only how to prevent cancer, but to slow its advancement and make chemo and other treatments more effective. The book describes how to prepare for chemo to make it more effective in killing cancer cells, less toxic, and have fewer and less intense side effects. The book provides hope for cancer patients and their loved ones by giving them ways to enhance treatment and empowering them to participate in improving their health.

About the author

Dr. Lewis is board certified in Public Health and Preventive Medicine and has practiced medicine for over 25 years. He is a medical researcher, and the author of several books. He has worked with cancer cells, seeking anti-cancer agents with lower toxicity and in trying to better understand mechanisms of action at the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Institute of Public Health, at Florida A&M University. His goal in writing is to make complex topics accessible, and to promote use the understanding of science as a path to making people’s lives more joyful and fulfilling. He believes that a child’s work is to play and have fun, and that this should not change as we become adults. He aspires to being honest, thoughtful, and kind, although sometimes falls short of his expectations with the latter two. He notes that most of us find that life is difficult, but then we stupidly make it harder for ourselves and others. A goal in writing this book was to explore how we might learn to live kinder, more pleasant and fulfilling lives.


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