Book Description
Describes how to use the Internet and other sources to learn about experimental drug trials, effective forms of alternative medicine, and other breakthroughs with the potential for dramatically improving the odds of successful treatment.
Book Info
(Fairview Press) Univ. of California, San Diego. Consumer text explains how patients can improve their odds for survival by demanding control over their health care, research conventional and alternative treatments, creating their own treatment strategy, and using the Internet to learn of new medical advances. Softcover.
From the Inside Flap
"Ben is not just a role model, but a hero for the 160,000 people who are diagnosed yearly with brain cancer. He lights the pathway to empowerment in the decision-making process."-Paul M. Zeltzer, MD, neuro-oncologist at Cedars Sinai Medical Center
About the Author
Ben Williams, PHD, is a professor of psychology at the University of California. Cancer free, Williams lives with his wife in San Diego.
Surviving "Terminal" Cancer: Clinical Trials, Drug Cocktails and Other Treatments Your Oncologist Won't Tell You About FROM THE PUBLISHER
In 1995, Ben Williams was diagnosed with a brain tumor the size of a large orange and given eighteen months to live. Rather than rely solely on the advice of his physicians, Williams sought out cutting-edge treatments, identified promising alternative therapies, used his statistical expertise to interpret clinical trial results, and ultimately created his own "drug cocktail" based on the best scientific research available. Williams maintains that the practices of the FDA and the medical establishment sometimes result in potentially helpful treatments being withheld from terminally ill cancer patients.
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