"You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction."
Wendell Berry

HEAL YOUR LIFESTYLE

Stanford University estimates that lifestyle issues such as poor diet, lack of exercise, and unwise general health habits account for 61% of the premature deaths due to cancer.  Genetics may account for 29% and medical services have been listed as contributing to about 10% of premature cancer deaths.  The resources we have identified in the Cancer Wellness Directory can help you look at  lifestyle issues that may be operating as obstacles to your healing process.
 

WHOLE PERSON TREATMENT
While doctors aggressively treat the illness, a whole person approach promotes the health, vitality and wellbeing of the person who is fighting the illness.   Following are assumptions of the whole person approach:

1.  Patients play a major role in their own healing journey.

2.  The professional is a healing partner.

3. The underlying causes, as well as the symptoms, must be treated.

4. Healing involves mind, heart, body and spirit.

5. Pain and illness are messages to value and act upon.

6. Attitude and perspective are a major factor in health and healing.

7. Body, mind and spirit form one unit and always affect each other.

8. Wellness means prevention plus wholeness: harmony in relationships,
 work, goals; a balance of body, mind and spirit.