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http://www.amazon.com/Options-Richard-Walters/dp/0895295105Describes and explains biologic, drug, immune, metabolic, herbal, energy, nutritional, and adjunctive treatments.From Publishers WeeklyWalters’s book on alternative cancer treatments makes use of the elements found in science fiction and detective stories. Instead of soberly presenting a list of untraditional approaches to treatment, he dramatically unveils what he feels is a gigantic conspiracy to suppress the truth about noninvasive, nontoxic, unorthodox methods. He agrees with a remark he attributes to Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling: “Everyone should know that the ‘war on cancer’ is largely a fraud.” This makes for some fascinating reading, but the science informing many of these treatments is unclear. The Rife generator, a bioelectric device that reportedly conquered terminal cancer in the 1930s, was decisively–and unfairly, argues Walter–discredited by the powers-that-were of conventional medicine. Essiac, an herbal tea reputed to cause remission in many cases of terminal cancer, and the Hoxsey Therapy, another herbal remedy linked to Native American and folk medicine, have been ignored or attacked by researchers and physicians. The many tales of miraculous cures are intriguing and seem to warrant further study, yet Walters believes that the testing of drugs and treatments on animals is not only cruel but ineffective–a view shared by few scientists. So the therapies in this book use people as guinea pigs. The reader is warned that while Walters’s guide is “not intended as endorsement for any particular therapies, it does illustrate how specific therapies work and may give hope and strength to readers.” The safest advice Walters gives is this: “Approach all therapies–conventional and alternative–with healthy skepticism and suspicion.”Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.ReviewA comprehensive survey of alternative cancer treatments, Options is especially useful for including not only information about herbal, nutritional and other holistic approaches, but also about maverick doctors and scientists, and experimental drug therapies. This is information that is hard to find in any form, and almost impossible to find in language that is accessible to the non-scientist. Although translated from medicalese, the book retains a slightly sterile tone, emphasizing the scientific validity of the various therapies. But if you’ve been diagnosed with cancer and want facts on alternative therapies, Options offers synopses of research, anecdotal accounts of treatment and analysis of how some medical treatments become standard, while others become quackery. — From The WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women; review by PCPPaperback: 416 pagesPublisher: Avery Trade; 1 edition (August 1, 1992)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0895295105ISBN-13: 978-0895295101Please contribute back by OCRing and Spellcheck/Proofreading this book. I recommend ABBYY Finereader 11 (or similar) for doing this work in a relatively easy way. If you plan to do that please leave a comment here so the effort won’t be duplicated by others. Please upload back the final pdf. Thank you.Please note that the high quality scan images are posted here for a specific purpose – to make it easy to OCR/spellcheck the book and not spend 100 hours doing that from a crappy, lossy compressed pdfs that are sometimes posted here. So please don’t waste your time asking why this is not a pdf file. Instead please contribute a few hours of your time and OCR and proofread the posted book. Thank you.