William Sears MD - Help Heal Yourself from Cancer: Partner Smarter with Your Doctor, Personalize Your Treatment Plan, and Take Charge of Your Recovery

This new book by Dr. Bill and Martha Sears provides practical advice and guidance for patients with cancer and their families on how to embark on the journey to heal from cancer. The book is a riveting read that empowers patients and their families with self-help tools to become wiser partners in their cancer care.

Mahtab Jafari, PharmD, author of The Truth About Dietary Supplements, and professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of California, Irvine

We are all blessed with a powerful God-given immune system, but most dont give it that much thought or attention. Using Lifestyle, Exercise, Attitude, and Nutritionsomething Dr. Bill and Martha Sears refer to as L.E.A.N.you can empower your immune army to stay on alert and prevent good cells from turning bad. This book will teach you how to work smarter with your doctor, customize an action plan, and take charge of your recovery by using invaluable, empowering, enlightening concepts such as your genes are not your destiny, your soil is more important than your seeds, and youre not a statistic or a percentage. Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig deep to find it. To find the courage you need to heal from cancer, just turn the page!

Bryce Wylde, DHMHS, functional medicine clinician, founder of Mymmunity, cofounder of The DNA Company

Help Heal Yourself from Cancer empowers each of us to take control of our health and healthcare, with practical insight to help patients through their cancer healing journey. In an easy-to-read-and-understand format, important features of the book include practical science-based tips and guidance for building a conquer-cancer diet, building and partnering with your conquer-cancer team, and living L.E.A.N. This is a must-read, serving as a guide for both patients and their health care team.

Marla Anderson, MD, FACS, medical director of surgical breast oncology for Mission Hospital

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Help Heal Yourself from Cancer

Partner Smarter with Your Doctor, Personalize Your Treatment Plan, and Take Charge of Your Recovery

WILLIAM SEARS, MD, and MARTHA SEARS, RN

BenBella Books, Inc.

Dallas, TX

This book is for informational purposes only. It is not intended to serve as a substitute for professional medical advice. The author and publisher specifically disclaim any and all liability arising directly or indirectly from the use of any information contained in this book. A health care professional should be consulted regarding your specific medical situation. Any product mentioned in this book does not imply endorsement of that product by the author or publisher.

Help Heal Yourself from Cancer copyright 2022 by William Sears and Martha Sears

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First E-Book Edition: October 2022

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022013293

ISBN 9781637741443 (hardcover)

ISBN 9781637741450 (electronic)

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Consult Your Doctor First

While the tools in this book help prevent all cancers and help most cancers heal, you may have special medical circumstances that require you to personalize the self-help portion of our cancer-healing plan. For this reason, always check with your cancer specialist before using any of the tools in this book. Remember our mission: to help you wisely partner with your doctors prescribed treatment.

A Note to Cancer-Care Providers on How to Best Use This Book

Most of todays cancer patients want to be better informed and are motivated to empower themselves with self-help tools. Yet many are also overloaded with internet misinformation and unscientific advice, and vulnerable to trying unproven alternatives. This book is meant to partner with you in helping your patients with cancer. Our wish is that as you announce your cancer-treatment plan, you will also prescribe to your patients: Heres your guidebook for conquering cancer and helping yourself heal.

A s a cancer physician and director of a National Cancer Institutedesignated comprehensive cancer center, I have seen firsthand how devastating it is for a patient to be told that they have cancer. Foremost among the emotions that a cancer patient experiences is a feeling of hopelessness, the perception that they have lost control of their health and their lives, which are now in the hands of the medical establishment. Nothing could be further from the truth.

In this excellent guide, Dr. William Sears and his wife Martha Sears, RN, provide an evidence-based roadmap to help patients with cancer, and anyone who wants to avoid getting cancer, take back the reins and become an active participant, together with their health professionals, in the quest to restore and maintain their health. They explore the impact of lifestyle, diet, exercise, and sleep on the bodys intrinsic and powerful ability to fight cancer, highlighting the important role of natural killer cells (your immune system army). Just as important, they emphasize a positive mindset, spirituality, and managing stress, which we know have major impacts on an individuals response to cancer treatment. Finally, they provide excellent recommendations for how to partner with your oncologist and other cancer care providers. (One of the most important enabling decisions a cancer patient can make is to participate in a clinical trial, where they can help move cancer treatment forward and become a cancer researcher themselves by reporting their personal experiences and outcomes.)

I hope that both lay people and health professionals find this book helpful in maintaining health and navigating the complicated journey that cancer patients find themselves on today. There are many ways to conquer cancer, only one of which is to be cured of the disease. The information and suggestions herein can help make that voyage more enlightening, empowering, and emotionally positive.

Richard Van Etten, MD, PhD

Director, UCI Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center