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A Cancer Battle Plan

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If you've ever wondered why cancer has somehow taken hold in your life or in that of someone close to you, you will find some surprising common sense theories here with some common sense strategies on how to get healthy again. A friend gave me this book early on in my uphill cancer fight and I finally felt "armed" and ready to wage war, instead of helpless and at the mercy of allopathic medicine's limited range of therapies (and few natural ones.) It's not a criticism of modern oncology techniques-this book lists ways to AUGMENT them with some simple common sense, supplementation of various kinds (detailed nutrition & vitamin regimens, spirituality, family support, etc..) and a belief in positive outlook/outcome. The most educational aspect of this book was that it taught me so much about our horrid American/Western diet and how much is has likely contributed to all kinds of diseases...including cancer. When 1 in 3 of us will experience cancer during our lifetimes, it can't hurt to consider the points that Mrs. Frähm highlights that not only speak to the ways our natural immune system becomes vulnerable, but how to strengthen this unrivaled form of chemotherapy.This book should appeal, in particular, to the active/critical patient or family who wants to explore the realm of natural cancer fighters that-unlike traditional oncology-work to get the body back in balance vs. kill the cancer at ALL COSTS. Mrs. Frähm not only takes you through her personal battles and how she arrived at her system, but explains in simple terms how these things work. I'm grateful beyond belief that a thoughtful friend passed along a copy of this powerful book and it's the first one I name when asked what book I'd recommend for a newly-diagnosed cancer patient. It's a hard-core, disciplined outline for those who believe in making some serious lifestyle changes in order to better their odds of keeping cancer from taking hold or ever coming back. At the same time, it doesn't claim to be the cancer gospel-anyone who claims to have THE cancer answer or THE cure is either disillusioned or a flat-out liar...thankfully, Mrs. Frähm doesn't attempt to do that.I appreciated her candor and personal courage during her difficult cancer fight and the specific things she shared in her personal nutritional regimen that I, too, incorporated that made me a much stronger cancer patient. I'm not only a smarter soldier in my own cancer war but I feel like I have a hold on the arsenal of natural weapons that my cancer enemy doesn't like. I have Mrs. Frähm-and the friend who gave me this powerful book-to thank for that.Just know this book isn't for everyone-especially those who are wary of anything their doctor doesn't rubber stamp with approval. But some of us didn't have the luxury of such enlightened, infallible oncologists and Mrs. Frähm just shows the reader some natural, alternative ways to bolster our immune systems & fight cancer without destroying ourselves in the process. And if your cancer situation is beginning to look a little bleak, this may well point you in some directions that no one else will tell you about. It's a shame that her 'Battle Plan' is only well-known within the cancer survivor community when it contains so many sound principles. If you're in the 'battle' against the Big C, it's difficult to NOT become a smarter soldier with this book. I only wish I had known about some of these principles years ago as I might not have even been diagnosed with cancer to begin with.p.s. As far as how Mrs. Frähm is doing today? I don't personally know...but given the fact that she only had 2 months to live- many years ago, mind you- after her "last" medical option expired and failed, whatever time she cultivated beyond that is due to the gifts of a higher power and a determined woman who took some brave steps to meet her enemy head-on.

I am 44. I had an emergency colectomy, to remove tumor, and have grade-c colon cancer. THis means that there is no visible tumor spread beyond that removed, but > 50% of the removed lymph nodes tested + for cancer cells. Dr.'s prognosis is 50%-60% 5-year survival. Chemo is recomended, but will only improve the survival rate by 3-8%. I do know that there will be a small but significant % in my situation will that will survive 30+ years.

THis book clearly endorses surgery, chemo, and/or radiation to stop advanced cancer. THe question is what next? I have three young children. Should I do nothing and just hope that I fall on the + side of stats? Or do I take aggressive action to try and put my self in the positive side? Choose for yourself. As for me, I will fight with all of my strength to beat this. I am a believer, and my ultimate hope is in God, but he gave me a mind to think, and a strong will to fight and live. TO that end, I ask, can a good detox program followed by a healthy nutritious diet possibly be harmful? I think not. Is the potential harm from follow-up chemo worth only 3-8% increase in 5-year survival? I am still praying and thinking about this one. I may forgo the chemo, but only after many consultations with the oncologist. I don't dismiss the imortance of the medical establishment, neither did Anne.

I find the diet to be a bit too radical, and am reading other books ("Juice FOr Life") that allow some fish and poultry in the meals, along with more reasonable food mixing, and more cooked foods. However, the other books seem to align with the this one regarding cleansing and juice recomendations, and emphasis on raw fruits and veggies. I don't look forward to the juice fast cleansing, but honestly, can it hurt? Might it help? I see this as a no-lose situation for me. OThers may have different situation. But in any case, take control of your desease. Fight. Seek the Lord. Do not surrender hope.

To respond to a new review, the problem with a natural approach to fighting cancer is that it can not be verified using the "scientific method". That is, individual components of the problem/solution can not be verified. THe problem/solution has to be viewed from a macro perspective. The suggestion that the American diet is responsible is valid when one looks at cancer rates of Japanese, before and after they adapt the American diet. However, unless individual food items can be proven to cause cancer, the medical community will not accept the evidence. The theory, however, is that the total American diet of dead poisened food, is responsible for the failure of the body to fight cancer (specifically due to reduced liver function). Seeing cancer as a system failure, rather than a local disease is orthoganal to the medical establishemt, and therefore, a program of detox, + disciplined nutrition + specific supliments, while reasonable, will not even get consideration, regardless of its results.

I am a cancer patient, not an "expert". I am trying to understand my disease, and am not willing to simply hope that my doctors can treat it. I will insist that they provide compelling data for any recomended procedure. I will weigh the risks/benefits carefully. I will also consider reasonable "alternatives".

When my own cancer was deemed incurable, I reached eagerly for this book and attempted to do many of the things it said. Recently, I bought the sequel to this book, A Cancer Battle Plan Sourcebook, and in it, Ann Frahm's husband, Dave, reveals that Ann died of her cancer. I am estimating this happened between 1998, when the first book came out, and 2000, when the second book came out. In the second book he explains what happened, that they just couldn't clear up all her immunity problems and the cancer came back and took over. When I found out she died, I felt very let down, but on the other hand, Ann lived about 10 years fter she was sent home to die, so I guess it is however you choose to see the glass, half full or empty. I think it is only right, though, to let potential readers of this book know that Ann died. She also lived longer than anyone expected. Make your own decisions about the efficacy of her program and your quality of life if you follow program (with the frequent juicing, supplements, enemas and on and on and on) with that in mind. But if you are anything like me, you keep on doing stuff like this because you don't have anything else to keep trying to do. May God help all of us with cancer, because we surely need it.

After being through the circus of working with doctors in my cancer recovery, I am convinced that they only know how to prescribe medicine and chemotherapy as well as other "scientific" methods. Problem is that their track record isn't too good (research their patients). Many people who have gone the traditional route have died. Yet I have spent time talking to and researching about others who have gone the non-medical route and they were in great health several years after being considered "hopeless." In fact, most of them had no detected cancer after only 5 weeks! They ALL had three things in common which they chose to do and this book talks about those things. It was one of three books that have changed my life. Take control of your own health and be careful about leaving it up to doctors who are giving it their best guess but are unfortunately falling short. Highly recommended book!

From cover to cover this is what you would call an informative book. It opened my mind to the impurities and toxins we put in our bodies. As a person who found myself in the position where a loved one got brest cancer, I found this book very informative on what practical solutions to take in the fight against the disease. The solution this book suggests though is not an easy one. Then again nothing worth while ever is. A complete lifestyle change is on order to enable the body to implement its own defences and cure the cancer. This book has opened my eyes to the causes of cancer and how we ourselves are primarily at fault. Sure there are hereditary causes but the food and things we eat are a huge factor. Having read this book I would recommend that you approach it with an open mind. Listen to what Anne and David (authors) have to say, and then make up your own mind. This book will not offer you a pop the pill solution or provide you with some magical remedy for cancer. What it will do is whet your appetite and show you that there is another way forward, there is life after Chemotherapy fails and there is life after Cancer. I consider myself a healthy person, this book scared me about what I was told about the foods I eat and what they do to me. I completely recommend this book and can do that because I know that with an open mind any reader will get from it what I did. A point in the right direction to beat this terrible disease.

I was diagnosed with medium grade, T-cell, lymphoma(NHL) in October of 1995. I had horrible responses to standard chemotherapy and was ultimately transplanted (autologous BMT) in April of 1996. Everything failed. I finally gave up chemotherapy in November of 1996 after being told by doctors I was incurable. The cancer had spread from my lungs to my peripheral nervous system and skin (CTCL). I started researching ways to help myself. Read many books, one of which was "The Cancer Battle Plan". Yes, the plan does seem a little extreme, but let me tell you, it did get me back on my feet... I followed everything the book outlined regarding the two week detox program (except I couldn't stomach the Tea tree oil). I'm still alive today and actually still have cancer (8 years without remission, and 6 years since giving up converntional therapy)... it is not detectable by any medical test, but I still feel it via neuropathy in my nerves in the lower legs. Since the day I started the "Battle Plans" two week detox my symptoms have slowly and gradually (yet sweetly) receeded. My Oncologists are stumped. I've read some opionions criticising non-conventional therapies for giving patients "false hope" and I just have to say hope may have been and what STILL keeps me alive. Conventional therapy only keeps 50% of all patients alive for 5 years. If you ask me, there isn't "true hope" for any cancer patient. What you do have AND control is the ability to help yourself beyond what your oncologist will subscribe. Nutritional methods of supplementing your battle are NOTHING BUT logical. Conventional methods of cancer treatments are designed to reduce tumor bulk, but they do not remove all the cancer. Your body is what finishes it off, and if it is no shape to do so after cancer and radiation... the cancer comes back with even more vengeance. Did this book cure me? I can't say because I did a lot of other things to help my self out since giving up chemo, but, this book is nothing but valuable to any reader and I've recommeded it to MANY other fellow battlers.

Anne is my sister and I can tell you from my first hand account of her journey through Cancer that the nutritional approach that is outlined in this book allowed Anne to live 7 years longer than she was given by the doctors. Within 6 weeks of implementing this life style she became CANCER FREE and stayed that way for 7 years. This was a remarkable turnaround. If I had not seen it with my own eyes, I would be not believe it. Not only was she cancer free for those years, but she was living a full life and it allowed her the time to raise her 2 kids. I believe that if you have nothing to lose you will find this approch doable. She was a joyous Godly woman who wanted to offer hope to you. But please know too, that her relationship with Jesus Christ was the most important thing in her life (& Death).

If you believe cancer is not controllable or curable, this book WILL give you the hope which traditional medicine (MD's) practioners destroy in our minds (not always). This book teaches you how to think for yourself by giving you many, many natural paths (methods) toward giving your body a chance to heal itself. I am not a personal friend of the author! This book entirely changed my perspective, paradigm, or way of thinking on health. This book was "the" book that started my interest in preventative health. WARNING: You may begin to question your doctors. Keep your presence and stand up for your beliefs. Doctors think from a "fix it" rather than a "heal it" perspective. I had Lyme disease and I cured myself, thanks to this book. (PS: This is the first review I have ever written.)

The book is well put together when you are fighting immesurable odds on survival. Anne brought home the value of taking initiative for your own battle plan and enventual healing. She points out, there is no magic pill in the doctor's bag. Anne showed what we all need to do in order to beet cancer and heart disease. She assembled a team of professionals that could help her beat the odds. This book answers the question what do you do when the doctor sends you home to die

This was an amazing story of a woman's (and her family's) battle for freedom from cancer. It's the perfect "balance" of testimonial and information to not only give you plenty of ways to begin changing your lifestyle, but to keep your interest too. I bought it for a friend who had just had a breast removed due to a fast-growing cancer. She became hopeful and began implementing the plan immediately. That was five and a half years ago, and she is much healthier than she was before she even knew she had cancer. She is cancer free! The book is a good starting-off point that gives you information on other resources as well.