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Dr. Joel Berman uses his broad medical experience as a surgeon to focus on alternative, preventive approaches to conquering cancer. He describes how 90 percent of all cancers can be attributed to environmental factors. He believes the way to combat and conquer cancer is by combining the best of alternative measures and traditional scientific approaches to achieve optimum outcome.

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Santé et bien-être

Santé du quotidien

Santé au quotidien

Fitness

Health

Alternative Therapies

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	15 mai 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781591207023
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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C ONQUERING C ANCER
Dr. Joel Berman’s Integrative Guide to Prevention and Treatment
JOEL BERMAN, M.D., F.A.C.S.
The information contained in this book is based upon the research and personal and professional experiences of the author. It is not intended as a substitute for consulting with your physician or other healthcare provider. Any attempt to diagnose and treat an illness should be done under the direction of a healthcare professional.
The publisher does not advocate the use of any particular healthcare protocol but believes the information in this book should be available to the public. The publisher and author are not responsible for any adverse effects or consequences resulting from the use of the suggestions, preparations, or procedures discussed in this book. Should the reader have any questions concerning the appropriateness of any procedures or preparation mentioned, the author and the publisher strongly suggest consulting a professional healthcare advisor.
Basic Health Publications, Inc.
28812 Top of the World Drive
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
949-715-7327 · www.basichealthpub.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available through the Library of Congress.
Berman, Joel A.
Conquering cancer : Dr. Joel Berman s integrative guide to prevention and treatment / Joel Berman, M.D.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-59120-702-3
1. Cancer—Alternative treatment. 2. Integrative medicine. I. Title.
RC271.A62B47 2013
616.99’406—dc23
2013029743
Copyright © 2013 by Joel Berman, M.D.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the author.
Editor: Roberta W. Waddell
Typesetting/Book design: Gary A. Rosenberg
Cover design: Mike Stromberg
Printed in the United States of America
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
For Suzanne

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will to live.
—A LBERT S CHWEITZER , O UT OF M Y L IFE AND T HOUGHT (1949)
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is contempt prior to investigation.
—W ILLIAM P ALEY (1794)
O THER B OOKS BY D R . J OEL B ERMAN
Fiction
A Few Loose Screws
A Greek Tragedy
An Alphabetic Collection of Ridiculous Medical Poetry
Circle in the Water
Destiny Obscure
Fifty-Two Pieces: Short Stories
Floating World
Murder by Design
Scalpel
Something of the Old
The Cloak of Hippocrates
The Human Machine
The Oldest Sins

Nonfiction
Comprehensive Breast Care and Surviving Breast Cancer
Love Letters from the War 1942–1945 (An American Surgeon Writes Home)
Slave Labor
The Death of America (The Deterioration of Ethics, Character, and Education in the United States)
Understanding Surgery
C ONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
P ART 1. T HE B ASICS
Cancer Throughout History
What Is Cancer?
Methods of Diagnosis
Methods of Treatment—Medical, Surgical, and Complementary
P ART 2. T HE D ISEASES
The Cancers
P ART 3. A LL O THER C ANCER -R ELATED M ATTERS
All Other Cancer-Related Matters
Glossary
Appendix: Some Common Chemotherapeutic Agents
Online Resources
Recommended Online Articles
End Notes
Additional References
About the Author
A CKNOWLEDGMENTS
T HIS BOOK IS A REFLECTION of my growth as a practicing surgeon and individual who, through his personal professional communications, readings, and patient contacts, has been able to change his view of the art of healing. Of course I owe a great deal to my formal medical teachers, but in the past few years this knowledge has been broadened and enhanced by my introduction to the many aspects of alternative medicine I have now sought to incorporate into my own surgical practice. In addition to my patients and many alternative healthcare professionals, I am indebted to my wife, Suzanne, who has been a strong advocate of dietary, spiritual, and exercise therapies, and has stimulated my interest in these modalities. In addition, I have certainly opened the door to a more spiritual life through works by Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra, Richard Carlson, Shakti Gawain, and many others, and have sought to broaden my understanding of the many healing modalities presented in this book.
I am thankful to publisher Norman Goldfind of Basic Health Publications for giving me the opportunity to present this book to the public. I owe much thanks to my editor Roberta (Bobby) Waddell for her enlightening, if critical, comments. She has taken the M-deity bias and prejudice out of the manuscript and made it into the book it is today.
I NTRODUCTION
I AM A SURGEON . My father was a surgeon. His father owned Jake’s Delicatessen on Grape Street in Syracuse, New York and my greatgrandfather was allegedly a cavalry officer in the czar’s army. So I guess my heritage is that men in my family have been making a living with knives or swords for many generations. I was an English and American Literature major in college, was urged into medicine by my father, following in my older, internist brother’s footsteps, and went on into postdoctoral training in surgery in the twentieth-century tradition of the famous surgeons Dr. William Halsted and Dr. Alfred Blalock. I also received a masters degree for breast cancer research along with my surgical fellowship and training. I spent a couple of years as a surgeon in the U.S. Air Force and since then have been in the private practice of general and vascular surgery in Southern California. I have been director of a breast center and taught at a major university as an associate professor; my training and heritage is based in traditional * (standard) medicine and surgery. In my spare time I have written two medical books (Understanding Surgery and Comprehensive Breast Care and Surviving Breast Cancer), as well as thirty fiction and nonfiction books.
As a surgeon, I have dealt predominately with the treatment of cancer after it has developed. Although my focus as a conventional medical specialist has rarely been on the prevention of cancer, in the course of writing Conquering Cancer, this has all changed.
Cancer Prevention Means Understanding What Causes the Disease
As I researched prevention, admittedly a subject I was not completely familiar with, it was eye-opening for me to realize that upwards of 80–85 percent of cancer was the result of conditions over which most people have a significant degree of control. As of now, you cannot influence your genes or your heritage, of course, so for the other 15–20 percent of the population, at least, there is an inherited potential placing them at a greater risk for developing cancer. For these people, science is right at the threshold of testing for the genes that can promote cancer, and perhaps developing the ability to anticipate the onset of cancer and thereby take steps to prevent it.
Even more important to preventing cancer is understanding that almost 90 percent of the cancers are attributed to environmental factors. These include tobacco—it causes 90 percent of lung cancer; alcohol, diet, and obesity contribute 30–35 percent of the deaths from cancer in several different organs; infections contribute about 15 percent; and radiation is responsible for another 15 percent of the deaths from cancer. Add to this list environmental pollutants, inactivity, and stress, and you can see how many external factors directly affect whether or not cancer develops during a lifetime. Naturally, these factors are not isolated causes of the disease, and it is now well understood that many conditions have to coexist for an individual to develop cancer. Not all heavy smokers get lung cancer and not all obese women with a family history of breast cancer who are taking estrogens will develop breast cancer. But the idea that people do have a significant amount of control over whether they are at a high or low risk for cancer is a factor that should be understood and evaluated in the designing of lifestyles. Suffice it to say that people are not just victims, and they can be proactive in leading lifestyles that intelligently protect them from exposure to cancer-causing substances and environments.
In 1931, Dr. Otto Warburg won a Nobel prize, in part for demonstrating that some cancers are caused by a lack of oxygen respiration in cells. His theories have been tried and tested and questions about their universal validity still remain. However, if you pay attention to the chatter in the media, you will hear people stating categorically that all cancer is caused by denying a cell its oxygen requirements. This spurious reasoning makes scientists shudder because such claims are inaccurate and exaggerated for effect.
There is no doubt that a whole host of preventive measures may be effective in reducing cancer risk, and this book will examine many of them, including alkaline conditions in the body, antioxidants, detoxification treatments, energetic therapies, enzymes, immune-system alterations and augmentation, oxygenation therapies, psychological approaches, and others. But it will approach these therapies in a scientific manner, not just an anecdotal one. The best way to combat cancer is to use both modalities intelligently, combining the best of both to achieve the optimum outcome.
Seven Tips for Cancer Prevention from the Mayo Clinic
Here is a list of seven tips put out by the Mayo Clinic to help reduce the risk of cancer. 1
Do not use tobacco.
Eat a healthy diet.
Maintain a healthy weight and include physical activity in your daily routine—this lowers risk o