Anticancer: A New Way of Life »

David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D., is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and cofounder of the Center for Integrative Medicine. He is a founding member of the organization Doctors Without Borders and continues to work in international crisis intervention.

The New York Times bestseller takes us on an empowering journey and changes the way we think about fighting cancer

David Servan-Schreiber's story of his journey from cancer patient to health combines memoir with a clear scientific explanation of what makes cancer cells thrive and what inhibits them. Anticancer is filled with easy to understand charts and diagrams and a sixteen-page color "Anticancer Action" insert that enables readers to make small but essential changes in lifestyle and diet. Your body knows how to fight cancer, says Servan-Schreiber, and you have to help it with nutrition, physical exercise, stress management, and avoiding environmental toxins. Anticancer enables people living with cancer to adopt a proactive attitude to living, even thriving, with cancer and helps healthy people prevent it.

Foreword 7 Introduction 13 Chapter 1 One Story 21 Chapter 2 Escaping Statistics 33 Chapter 3 Danger and Opportunity 45 Chapter 4 Cancer's Weaknesses 63 Chapter 5 Breaking the News 111 Chapter 6 The Anticancer Environment 118 Chapter 7 Lessons of a Relapse 186 Chapter 8 The Anticancer Foods 195 Chapter 9 The Anticancer Mind 267 Chapter 10 Defusing Fear 348 Chapter 11 The Anticancer Body 370 Chapter 12 Learning to Change 396 Chapter 13 Conclusion 408 Ten Precautions for Cell Phone Use 421 Acknowledgments 425 Notes 435