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Cancer: 100 Ways to Fight
A Positive Guide for Patients, Survivors, Caregivers, and Loved Ones
by John Roberts

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Homework: Know Your Sources
Chapter 12: Cancer: How to Fight

The comfortable mind is never at rest.

Raw information is not knowledge. It has to be sorted, verified, and applied to your specific situation. There are over 100 types of cancer: each one is different and so is each patient. So, there are literally millions of individual situations and appropriate treatments. If you have the energy and mental ability, you should be a partner with your doctor in making that selection and updating the application, always seeking the best possible result that medical science and professional judgment can provide.
––John Roberts

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
  - Bill Vaughan

One thing that grows faster than cancer is the knowledge of it. But, newer knowledge is less certain than old. Avoid rumors and speculation, get the facts, and know how to find and authenticate what science is doing and recommending. Use your professionals and study your disease as though you are getting ready to teach it. Pretend to be your own doctor in making decisions, but don’t make a move without proper medical advice and treatment. Most actions in cancer have alternatives and choices. Know which is best for you. That is not only to avoid mistakes and get the best that science has discovered, but to get you emotionally and intellectually involved, which is guaranteed to improve the outcome.

In cancer, there are so many books, so many websites, so much opinion, so much of it wrong or useless. The cancer patient or caregiver, unless unable, must first learn that no one else is going to sort through all of that and provide the appropriate information and motivation. The professionals do not have the time or the personal knowledge of the patient, so the individual or a concerned caregiver must learn to do it. But, of course, the individual is not a doctor, and the next responsibility is to coordinate the information with the expert who is guiding the treatment. The doctor is like the chairman of the board who cannot know all the details of everyone’s job, depends on them to do it, but sets the vision and objective, provides the resources, and gives firm decision-making, guidance, and delegation of responsibilities.

My Bibliography has over 100 books in it and I have quoted from nearly all of them as I read or reviewed them. I review many websites and receive lots of e-mail. I don’t want to miss anything that might help me or improve my knowledge and ability to fight.

Great Website for Young Women with Cancer
Based on spirited, inspiring book
by Kris Carr.
www.CrazySexyCancer.com