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Conquer Cancer on Your Terms: You Have Healthy Alternatives
Conquer Cancer on Your Terms: You Have Healthy Alternatives
Conquer Cancer on Your Terms: You Have Healthy Alternatives
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Conquer Cancer on Your Terms: You Have Healthy Alternatives

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Conquer Cancer on Your Terms is a resource guide which grew from the passion Karen Garcia felt after her diagnosis of breast cancer and the discoveries she made researching alternative treatments --- those outside of the standard options originally given her. Because there is so much information available, it can be overwhelming and difficult to know where to start. This resource guide is Karen’s attempt to help those diagnosed with cancer, along with their families and loved ones, have a place to begin.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherBookBaby
Release dateJun 13, 2014
ISBN9781483529714
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    Conquer Cancer on Your Terms - Karen Garcia

    possibility.

    INTRODUCTION

    Life is full of surprises, as they say; and I have, indeed, had my share of them, both good and bad. Sometimes surprises can be just a fun little break in your day; sometimes they can be a thorn in your side that puts a little pothole in the otherwise smooth road you’re traveling. In November of 2009, a sequence of surprises began that would be life changing for me.

    The first surprise came when I received a letter in the mail informing me that the hospital that had done my mammogram wanted to look at previous test results. That was a dead giveaway that something was awry and also something I hadn’t expected.

    The next surprise came when the surgeon called to tell me that the needle biopsy results showed the lump in my breast was not microcalcifications, but a malignancy. I had been so confident in what a healthy specimen I was that I felt sure it would be nothing.

    The most impactful surprise, however, came when I telephoned a new friend (we’d only known each other a couple of months) to tell her of my diagnosis and the treatment options that the surgeon had explained to me --- surgery, chemotherapy, and (possibly) radiation. At that point, she told me something I would never have imagined...

    Take a deep breath! You need to know that those are not your only options!

    What? What did she mean? What other options could there be besides surgery (including reconstruction), chemotherapy, and radiation? Surely the surgeon would have told me if there was something else I could do.

    Well, BIG SURPRISE, the allopathic medical world will not tell you that you have other options if you are diagnosed with cancer. Unless you have a friend like I had or unless you are already in tune to the holistic, alternative world of healing therapies, you will be led on a very narrow and (more times than not) painful treatment path.

    Let me first clarify that I do not judge any cancer patients for whatever recovery path they choose to take. It is a journey no one wants to go on; but if someone has to take it, that person needs to feel as good and as confident as he or she can that the direction chosen is one that speaks to him or her. Once I knew I had other options and started exploring the paths available that led me away from the standard care treatments (SCT),

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