There's No Place Like Hope: A Guide to Beating Cancer in Mid-Sized Bites [Hardcover]

Vickie Girard (Author), Dan Zadra (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2004

This is Vickie Girard’s long-awaited and completely indispensable survival guide for cancer patients and their families. Regardless of the type of cancer, here is an immediate, practical, and inspiring guide that will empower any patient to better fight and survive this disease. Through her involvement with the Cancer Treatment Centersof America and The American Cancer Society, Vickie Girardhas taken her message of “empowered patient care” to the floor of the U.S. Senate and to thousands of cancer patients and survivors throughout the world. The message is simple, hopeful, powerful, and long overdue: “We must stop speaking of cancer in whispers. We may have cancer, but cancer does not have us. Cancer is a beatable, treatable, survivable disease.”

Editorial Reviews

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Excellent! A very timely book, filled with hope, help and inspiration, written by someone whohas been there. -- Dr. Ranulfo Sanchez, MD, Surgical Oncologist

Finally! I hope all cancer patients, survivors and their families have a copy of this book in their hands. -- Cheryl Caleca, Link To Life Newsletter

Hope for those touched by cancer, written by a woman who has been there and survived. -- Timothy C. Birdsall, ND, National Director, Naturopathic Medicine and Research, CTCA

From the Publisher

There are many books on cancer, but none so hopeful and useful as Vickie Girard’s. The result of more than eight years of working closely with thousands of cancer patients and survivors, this is one cancer book that definitely has its feet on the ground. In the very first chapter, the author assures the reader to “immediately throw out any old cancer horror stories. Times, treatments, and diagnoses are all changing and improving as we speak.” The next 150 pages is a powerful, practical and inspiring guide that will empower millions of cancer patients to quickly understand the new “Patient Empowerment Medicine”, so they can better fight and better survive this disease. “Fear doesn’t defeat cancer,” reminds Girard, “empowered treatment defeats cancer.” Having survived one of the most deadly types of cancer, she writes with unusual clarity and authority and has taken her message to the floor of the United States Senate and to thousands of cancer patients and su! rvivors throughout the world. Her personal mission is to “empower and inspire people who have cancer and those who love them,” and her long-awaited book truly delivers on that promise.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 161 pages
• Publisher: Compendium Publishing & Communications; 1 edition (January 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1888387416
• ISBN-13: 978-1888387414
• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 4.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #477,086 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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52 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars There is No Place Like Hope.........., June 21, 2001

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Laura Hopkins (Libertyville, Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: There's No Place Like Hope: A Guide to Beating Cancer in Mid-Sized Bites (Hardcover)

Vickie Girard has written a wonderful, instructional book, which will become a tremendous asset for all of us who are fighting cancer (myself included). Her analogies and anecdotes are well put and well received. Vickie has been challenged in every way-from the terror of a cancer diagnosis, to life-and-death insurance issues and everything in between! What is most remarkable is that she has decided to tell her story with the hope that she will help others.

However, while reading "There is No Place Like Hope," I could not help but to conclude that it is, in large part, a marketing tool designed to attract patients to Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA). Vickie was treated at one of the organization's hospitals. While I appreciate Vickie's opinions regarding CTCA, I question her statement indicating that this organization attracts and employs the "best and the brightest" in cancer care.

I was treated for breast cancer at a CTCA hospital. Since the conclusion of my treatment at CTCA more than 10 years ago, I have been re-diagnosed with breast cancer twice. In the labyrinth of hospitals, clinics and physicians I have encountered during my own treatment odyssey, I strongly believe that the best and the brightest cancer experts are located in research hospitals where there is an all-out commitment to cutting-edge, new cancer therapies. Oncology physicians at these centers do not merely read about and indicate treatment protocols for their patients, they are in the laboratories developing and perfecting them. These physicians are educated at the best-known colleges and universities worldwide. They teach, lecture and are actively and aggressively attempting to make a difference in the lives of people victimized by cancer. I am not sure that this is part of CTCA's approach to cancer treatment.

Vickie's story is remarkable and should be shared with everyone - not just those touched by cancer. She is an inspiration to all people, everywhere. My advice to readers of Vickie Girard's book is to look beyond the marketing ploys of CTCA and revel in the wisdom, humor and real-life coping strategies which Vickie so thoughtfully and eloquently puts into words.....

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mandatory Reading, June 10, 2001

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Willie (Lebanon, TN United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: There's No Place Like Hope: A Guide to Beating Cancer in Mid-Sized Bites (Hardcover)

Best book I've read for dealing with cancer. I think all cancer patients should read it - wish I'd had it five years ago when I was taking treatments. All cancer centers should have a copy of this book in their library and/or should give a copy to each patient. The American Cancer Society should recommend this book. Can't begin to say enough good things about it.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, November 29, 2002

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This review is from: There's No Place Like Hope: A Guide to Beating Cancer in Mid-Sized Bites (Hardcover)

This book was so uplifting and informative. I sat down to read it and didn't stop until I was finished with the entire book. My Sister has breast cancer and I found so much "HOPE" inside this little book. I bought the book for my Sis and sent it to her after I read it. Hopefully, she was as impressed with it as I was.