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Surviving "Terminal" Cancer: Clinical Trials, Drug Cocktails, and Other Treatments Your Oncologist Won't Tell You About Paperback – June 2, 2002

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1st edition (June 2, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1477496513
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1477496510
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.11 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.65 x 10 inches
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Customers find the book informative, critical, and helpful in explaining medicine. They say it's well-written and interesting. Readers also mention the book is easy to read and offers a positive message for people fighting GBM.

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Customers find the book informative, critical, and helpful in explaining medicine. They say it helps novices understand the scope of the issue. Readers also appreciate the author's personal narrative and wry sense of humor.

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Susan S.
5.0 out of 5 stars Tremendous information for everyone, not just cancer patients
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2024
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This book is extremely helpful in explaining medicine, clinical trials, FDA, doctors, drug manufacturers and healthy alternatives to traditional medicines. Everyone should read it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A New Approach, A New Attitude
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2006
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I found this book inspirational. Not because the author beat the odds in surviving a cancer considered "terminal" by all of his physicians, but because he did it by rationally setting out to explore all of his options and did not just let the "experts" tell him what to do.

The most important lesson from this book for those of us exploring cancer/tumor treatment options is that we have to research beyond what we are likely to hear from our medical specialists. Each of them will have their particular bias (e.g., surgeons tend to want to cut things out, oncologists will tend towards other strategies).

Moreover, as the author points out, the range of treatments the medical specialists are willing to recommend are sharply limited by custom to things that have passed the FDA-mandated stage III clinical trials. Many very promising treatments have only passed stage II trials; and because of cost, never go beyond that. Nor do medical specialists in the U.S. look at successful treatments that are well-accepted by the medical specialists in other countries.

And while this book does discuss "alternative" medicine, that is not the focus. The author does evaluate some "alternative" medical approaches, debunking several of them but also notes where medical science has validated some of them.

Another critical point the author makes is that treating cancer should be like treating AIDs. Because of the probabilistic nature of any single treatment successfully eradicating a cancer, a "cocktail-style" drug regiment has the best chance of succeeding. He makes a powerful and convincing argument that this one change in approach could make a huge difference in reducing the recurrence of cancer and boosting the effectiveness of current treatments.

One more key insight of the author: the large pharmaceutical companies have no financial incentive to pursue promising cancer treatments that they can not patent and thereby recoup their multi-billion dollar investment. Because of that, the author believes many promising treatments are not fully explored. He is sharply critical of government policies that have not closed this gap.

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Pam Mastrangeli
5.0 out of 5 stars Good to know
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2024
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Informative book about a terrible cancer
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4.0 out of 5 stars Commendable Effort
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2014
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My advice to anyone buying a cancer treatment book for a loved one that has cancer is to read it and screen it for emotionally upsetting/damaging content. Mr. Williams has written a fine personal history of his journey through advanced primary brain cancer. He expresses his fears, emotions, struggles in a well written psychological perspective that makes the reader feel almost like a family member that is with him every day. Anyone who has experienced cancer close-up can relate to his book. For those who can think outside the box regarding cancer, they can admire his courage and strong convictions in pursuing his own researched complementary therapies while undergoing standard oncological treatment.
What I didn't like here is that he takes a cheap shot at Dr. Burzynski. Was that really necessary? He states that his oncology colleagues regard him as a quack. Meanwhile the patients of these oncologists who have a similar condition as Mr. Williams are dropping like flies. He writes that Burzynski's treatment is very expensive implying he is enriching himself. Well Hello, cancer treatment isn't cheap unless you stick to the budwig protocol and essiac tea. I don't know if it's true but apparently some oncologists get a cut of the chemo drugs they prescribe.
Another thing I disliked is what I refer to the "country bumpkin republican" view. There is a problem. In this case the impediments to cancer research. This view will identify the problem to a cause that is minor to the problem and oblivious to the core factors that impede cancer research. In Mr. William's view it is the bureaucratic hurdles caused by animal rights activists that have driven up the price of research pigeons!
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A fellow survivor
5.0 out of 5 stars For anyone in search of hope after being told they have a 'terminal' or stage 4 disease.
Reviewed in Germany on May 29, 2021
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this book is for anyone in search of hope after being told they have a 'terminal' or stage 4 disease. Read it. Its well worth your time!

What seems insurmountable, is possible but it only starts by the sheer belief and will to learn about ourselves, how our bodies process toxins, but also never stop questioning even when you're told you are terminal. I feel you. If you are here.. keep going! stay strong.

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Carolina Pedroso
5.0 out of 5 stars muito interessante e animador
Reviewed in Brazil on March 25, 2018
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o autor faz uma bela pesquisa e oferece uma visão crítica e iluminadora sobre câncer. A experiência vencedora do utor no desafio do câncer de Cérebro traz muita informação e esperança pra quem deseja ver além do que o protocolo padrão dos oncologistas.
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Thunderclap
4.0 out of 5 stars Un libro interessante
Reviewed in Italy on May 2, 2018
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Questo libro è una guida interessante, anche se non aggiornatissima, su come gestire da paziente una diagnosi di malattia terminale, in particolare di tumore cerebrale. Il libro è scritto bene (in inglese, ovviamente) e i concetti espressi sono alquanto comprensibili. Dai libro è tratto il documentario omonimo, anche con sottotitoli in italiano, che si può trovare facilmente online.
Importante: la lettura del libro e la visione del documentario possono essere utili sia per il/la paziente sia per il medico che lo/la cura.
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Christine A. Sutherland
1.0 out of 5 stars I put this in the trash
Reviewed in Australia on December 14, 2022
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This is not in any way credible advice for people with cancer, or the family and friends who love them. It's a collection of anecdotes and claims with zero basis. The author has simply been lucky enough to survive longer than most - he's an outlier - and like many people doesn't understand the difference between correlation and causation. Frankly the book should never have been published. It's misleading and cruel and could end up sending dying people on wild goose chases instead of doing what's really important to them.

Food does not cure cancer. Supplements do not cure cancer. Positive thinking does not cure cancer. No cancer drug (which may be helpful for other cancers) can do anything but give perhaps a few extra months with glioblastoma. Sooner or later (usually sooner) they stop having any effect and the tendrils invade the rest of the brain. It's a mongrel of a cancer and I our family having suffered because of it, I have nothing but the deepest sympathy for others facing it, and nothing but disgust for those peddling false hope.
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Nadia Mocan
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome! A must read for anyone
Reviewed in Canada on April 18, 2016
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Awesome ! A must read for anyone.
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