About the Book
Do you or someone your love have cancer? RENEWAL tells the stories of men and women in a cancer support group who choose to influence their fate. RENEWAL propels the reader beyond conventional limits of treatment. It chronicles personal journeys and tells how members (and you!) can set and accomplish personal goals.
RENEWAL, the book that records this, is unique in offering practical help for people with cancer and their families. The book
- Reveals, through true stories, the quickest way to finding a new path is meeting people who have already traveled it
- Deals with person-disease interplay and how to work with your physicians
- Explains self-help tools like visualization, diet, and exercise, to improve health and wellbeing
- Guides healing regardless of diagnosis or treatment. This desirable outcome is available for everyone who works to attain it.
This year over 1.5 million people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with cancer. Cancer will soon replace heart disease as the world's number one cause of death. Despite sophisticated treatment and medical attention many people feel they have been given a death sentence. They have started down a path of unknown length towards oblivion.
There is a choice in this. There is another path. Patients can take control of where they are going. This is an alternate route for deciding what a person's journey of discovery will be. The path requires self-determination, persistence, and mutual support. The people in this book came to call this path their Renewal.
Told by a surgeon experienced in cancer care who founded the group, RENEWAL reveals hope, resilience, and members' courage. The current members recently celebrated a 27th anniversary. Those in the group speak and want to share their experiences with you.
The book includes stories from people in specialized fields who brought their knowledge to share with the group as a gift. It contains stories about physicians when they themselves become sick. There is a chapter of opinions and conclusions from medical experts who work in this field. It also contains a story about how the physician founder grew in his awareness to the point of writing this book.