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CANCER: Increasing Your Odds for Survival Documentary - Description and Contents
 CANCER:
Increasing Your Odds for Survival is a four hour public television series hosted by Walter Cronkite.
It is specifically designed to provide a jumpstart of information
useful to surviving cancer patients and those who love them. It
is an overview of topics pertinent to survival from leading cancer
experts and cancer survivors. Experts such as Doctors Bernie Siegel,
Lawrence LeShan, Joan Borysenko and Stephen Levine, as well as doctors
and scientist from the National Cancer Institute and the Yale Comprehensive
Cancer Center. It is divided into four, one-hour shows-- Diagnosis
& Empowerment, Treatments, Mind/Body Interventions, and Spirituality
and Mortality.
The first two hours of the series focus on the
physical dimensions of the disease and includes information on dealing with
the shock of diagnosis; empowerment; second opinions and support; and information
on mainstream physical interventions, alternative and complementary treatments.
The last two hours of the series focus on non-physical
interventions and aspects of the disease which include mind/body science
and therapies; the psychological dimensions of cancer; supplemental therapies
like meditation, imagery, affirmation, humor, psychotherapy; the spiritual
aspects of the disease; spontaneous remission; and death, dying and terminal
care.
The series offers a new way of looking at disease
that can increase the quality of life and potentially the duration of life
as well.
Contents:
Part I- Dealing with Cancer
- - Understanding Cancer
- What is Cancer
Stages of Cancer
Statistics
Five Year Survival Rates
Who Survives
- -Dealing with Cancer
- Dealing with the shock of diagnosis
Second Opinions
Obtaining Appropriate Treatment
Choosing a Hospital
Comprehensive Cancer Centers
Cancer Information Service
Physician Data Query-PDQ
Communicating with Your Doctor
Dealing with Hospitals
- -Living with Cancer
- The Family
Support Groups and Counseling
Part II-Treatment
- -Conventional Treatment
- Recurrence
Clinical Trials
- -Conventional Advances
- for Tumor Aggressiveness
Chemotherapy Sensitivity Testing
New Directions
New Therapies
Timing of Chemotherapy
Timing of Breast Cancer Surgery
- -Alternative and Supplemental Treatments
- The Immune System
Diet
Vitamins
Supplements and Herbs
- -Alternative Treatments
- Burzynski Clinic
714-X (Gaston Nassens)
a Treatment
Evaluating Alternatives Combining Approaches
Part III- Mind/Body Interventions
- -Mind/Body Science
- NIM-Neuro-immuno-modulation
PNI-Psycho-neuro-immunology
- -Mind/Body Therapies
- Meditation
Imagery
Humor and Healing
- -Psychological Aspects of Cancer
- Cancer Personality
Finding Your Song-A New Therapeutic Approach
Self Love
Saying No
Anger
Forgiveness
Pitfalls
Therapies
Finding a Therapist
PartIV - Spirituality and Mortality
- -Cancer and Spirituality
- Spontaneous Remissions
Healing
A Higher Power
Love and Prayer
Internal Wisdom
- -Cancer and Mortality
- Letting Go
Communicating
Hospice
Grieving
Life and Death
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