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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Paths of Hope and Ways of Healing | |
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| On Never Giving Up Hope: Three Stories | |
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| Healing and Curing: The Starting Point for Informed Choice | |
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| Choice in Conventional Cancer Therapies | |
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| The Crucial Difference: International Variations in Conventional Cancer Therapies | |
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| The Debate Over Conventional Cancer Therapies | |
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| American Cultures of Conventional Cancer Therapy | |
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| Choosing Conventional Physicians, Hospitals, and Therapies | |
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| Choice in Unconventional Cancer Therapies | |
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| The Debate over Unconventional Cancer Therapies | |
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| A Framework for Evaluating Unconventional Cancer Therapies | |
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| Spiritual Approaches to Cancer | |
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| Psychological Approaches to Cancer | |
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| Mainstream Nutritional Science and the Unconventional Nutritional Cancer Therapies | |
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| What Science Says about Nutrition and Cancer: Macronutrients | |
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| Can Vitamins and Minerals Help? The Scientific View: Micronutrients | |
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| Unconventional Nutritional Approaches to Cancer--An Overview | |
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| The Gerson Diet--A Radical Anticancer Therapy | |
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| Macrobiotics--A Diet and a Way of Life | |
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| Virginia C. Livingston--Integrating Diet, Nutritional Supplements, and Immunotherapy | |
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| Keith Block--Integrating Diet, Fitness, and Psychological Support into an Oncology Practice | |
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| Physical, Traditional, and Pharmacological Therapies | |
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| Physical and Energetic Approaches--Exercise, Massage, Therapeutic Touch, and Chiropractic | |
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| Traditional Chinese Medicine---A Favored Adjunctive Therapy for American Cancer Patients | |
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| Unconventional Pharmacological Therapies--An Overview | |
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| Stanislaw Burzynski--Antineoplastons on the Edge of Medical Credibility | |
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| Joseph Gold--Does Hydrazine Sulfate Prevent Weight Loss and Extend Life with Cancer? | |
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| Emanuel Revici--Will His Unique Therapy Ever Be Scientifically Assessed? | |
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| Living with Cancer | |
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| Living with Cancer | |
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| Controlling Pain | |
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| On Living and Dying | |
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| Making Your Choices | |
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| Choice in Resources | |
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| Professional Training Programs in Spiritual and Psychological Approaches to Cancer | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Author and Commonweal | |
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| Index | |