Emperor of All Maladies

“This image of cancer as our desperate, malevolent, contemporary doppelganger — is so haunting because it is at least partly true.  A cancer cell is an astonishing perversion of the normal cell.”

—Siddhartha Mukherjee

    (excerpt from The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer)

You can check out The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer here.

Anticancer

I recently finished reading Anticancer, A New Way of Life by David Servan-Schreiber.  I thoroughly enjoyed this book.  Servan-Schreiber gives concise, understandable explanations of cancer from his perspective as a well-respected psychiatrist and neuroscientist.  In addition, Anticancer also delves into the intricate role that nutrition plays in the fight against cancer. 

I really like the website associated with Anticancer as well.  You can check it out here.  Some highlights are:  The Essential Anticancer Guide and 20 New Anticancer Rules. 

The Beautiful Truth

I recently watched a very thought-provoking documentary called The Beautiful Truth.  The Beautiful Truth introduces viewers to an alternative (and controversial) cancer therapy called Gerson Therapy, which is based on Dr. Max Gerson’s findings that diet could, and did, cure cancer.  Dr. Gerson’s work is summarized in his book—A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases and the Cure of Advanced Cancer. 

I am intrigued by the concept of Gerson Therapy, but I cannot fully believe what is presented in the documentary without doing some research myself.  To start, I ordered Gerson’s original book from Amazon.  (Unfortunately, the book is out of stock so it may be awhile before I can delve into it.) 

Does anyone know more about Gerson Therapy?  I plan to write additional posts about this therapy once I learn more about it.

Even if you don’t believe in the therapy (or its concept), The Beautiful Truth is still a must-see documentary.