I started reading, "A Cancer Battle Plan" last night. As I read, I think about all of the people I know (or know of) who are afflicted with this horrific disease, and I am filled with hope.

Probability of developing invasive cancer, US, 2001-2003*
*American Cancer Society
All sites: Male--1 in 2
All sites: Female--1 in 3
Breast: Female--1 in 8
Prostate: Male--1 in 6
Colon and Rectum: Male--1 in 17
Colon and Rectum: Female--1 in 19

Cancer. It's a scary word. People hear it and they think "death." Most often, it destroys life (or at least the quality of life). It's truly a mystery to the general public. "...a thunderbolt of fate, striking at random with no cure or cause." Is it really though? How often do you hear, "Oh, that causes cancer." It seems like everything these days causes cancer. Is there a cause-and-effect relationship between lifestyle choices (environment, diet, etc.) and cancer ? Of course! But is it definable? And is it possible (or practical) to live a life of cancer prevention or reversal? That's what I am going to find out.

Thinking outside the box:
"Degenerative diseases are not caused by viruses, bacteria, or parasites, but by the body's inadequate metabolic response to a condition in which the cells of the body are being slowly poisoned by too many of the wrong things or not enough of the right things at the right times."
--Dr. Harold W. Harper

"I am more than ever convinced that bio-chemistry and metabolic science will be victorious in healing degenerative diseases, including cancer, if the whole body or the whole metabolism will be attacked and not the sympotoms." --Dr. Max Gerson

"What if cancer is a systematic, chronic, metabolic disease of which lumps and bumps constitute only symptoms? Will this not mean that billions of dollars have been misspent and that the basic premisese on which cancer treatment and research are grounded are wrong? Of course it will, and in decades to come a perplexed future generation will look back in amazement on how current medicine approached cancer with the cobalt machine, the surgical knife, and the introduction of poisons into the system and wonder if such brutality really occurred." --Harold W. Harper, M.D., and Michael L. Culbert