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Your Defense Against Cancer: The Complete Guide to Cancer Prevention

- By Henry Dreher. Harper & Row, 1989. Paperback: Harper Perennial, 1990.

- First serial rights obtained by Redbook.

At least 50 percent—some say 65 percent—of all cancers can be prevented. Your Defense Against Cancer presents all the risk factors and tells how to avoid them. This groundbreaking book is the first to provide the total spectrum of methods you can use to achieve maximum protection, sharing the newest findings on cancer and diet, lifestyle, and the crucial mind-body interactions that contribute to the strength of your cancer defenses. Written with reason, compassion, and clarity, this book can help you save your own life.

Review from Kirkus Reviews
"Sound, wide-ranging, and up-to-date, this solid guide offers real help to those concerned with avoiding cancer or fighting its recurrence…Dreher is supportive and encouraging, both for those fearful of the disease and for those who may already have it. Real guidance is available here."

Review from The New England Journal of Medicine
"The lifestyle section of the book is…most useful. Topics ranging from smoking cessation to the avoidance of carcinogenic solvents in the home are handled skillfully. The section on diagnostic X-ray films and radon in the home is particularly reasonable and is unlikely to provoke unnecessary fear, while providing a clear, practical means of limiting exposure."

Review from Publisher’s Weekly
"This informative book makes a balanced and convincing case for itself."

Linus Pauling, Ph.D., Two-Time Nobel Laureate
"I am sure that every person by following [Henry Dreher’s] recommendations would be able to protect himself or herself against cancer to a significant extent."

Norman Cousins, author of Anatomy of an Illness
"Your Defense Against Cancer has surveyed the important work in cancer prevention in a way that is fully accessible to, and usable by, the layman. Mr. Dreher’s achievement is all the more remarkable because he has no pet theories to advance…He is knowledgeable and responsible."

Lawrence LeShan, Ph.D., author of Cancer as a Turning Point
"Henry Dreher has covered the full terrain of psychological factors in cancer with balance and compassion. In terms of preventing cancer, Dreher demonstrates that we human beings are neither omnipotent and nor powerless."

Ernst L. Wynder, M.D., president, American Health Foundation
"A first-rate for anyone who wants to stay healthy. Everyone should read it."

Stephanie Simonton, Ph.D., coauthor of Getting Well Again
"One of the rare books I know of that teaches people how to handle stress in a way that does not compromise their natural defenses. Dreher pays heed to the many levels of our being that contribute to prevention."

Andrew Weil, M.D., author of Spontaneous Healing and Eating Well for Optimum Health
"The best general work on cancer prevention."